Overview
- Description
- Describes author's observations of the first five years of Nazi rule and its effect on German Jews: the Nazi anti-Jewish boycott; author's distribution of anti-Nazi handbills; the Nazi concept of Rassenschande and the Nuremberg Laws; the exclusion of Jews from the professions; the silence of Christian churches; antisemitism during the 1936 Berlin Olympics; author's emigration to Italy; Kristallnacht; and the death of members of the author's family.
Physical Details
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1 folder
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Keywords & Subjects
- Topical Term
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives. Jews--Legal status, laws, etc.--Germany. Antisemitism--Germany. World War, 1939-1945--Underground literature. Anti-Jewish boycotts. Discrimination in employment. Kristallnacht, 1938. Race defilement (Nuremberg Laws of 1935)
- Geographic Name
- Italy--Emigration and immigration--History--20th century.
- Personal Name
- Leyes, Hermann.
- Meeting Name
- Olympic Games (11th: 1936: Berlin, Germany)
Administrative Notes
- Holder of Originals
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United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- Legal Status
- Permanent Collection
- Provenance
- The United States Holocaust Research Institute Archives received the memoir in Aug 1994.
- Record last modified:
- 2023-02-24 14:02:08
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