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information concerning Emergency Committee grantees, and account ledgers detailing
payments to the grantees‘ employers.
Provenance: The Emergency Committee, located in New York City, in the Institute of
International Education, was organized in May 1933 to serve the needs of university
professors who had been dismissed from German universities because of political
opinions or antisemitic legislation. With the outbreak of Nazi aggression, the Committee
revised its mission to include refugee professors from all countries in Western Europe
overrun by the Nazi armies. Dr. Betty Drury assembled the collection while she was
serving as executive secretary for the Emergency Committee during World War II. Dr.
Drury‘s husband, Mr. Marvin H. Clapp, donated the collection to USHMM.
Language: English 1922–1967 (bulk 1944–1945)
Original records, 21 boxes; now available in 253 microfiche cards
Source of Acquisition: Mr. Marvin H. Clapp
Finding aid: English-language finding aid available.
RG-32.015 --- Walter Hamann Collection
This collection contains photocopies of documents, copyprint photographs, and a memoir
documenting the Nazi persecution of members of the Walter Hamann family who were
Jehovah‘s Witnesses. Hamann‘s memoir, ―Extract of Memories,‖ describes the
conditions of his seven-plus years imprisonment in Moor-Straflager Neu-Susstrum, in a
Düsseldorf police prison, and in Sachsenhausen, where one of his brothers-in-law died
from mistreatment. A photograph of Hamann and some of his male relatives is
accompanied by information about their imprisonment. The collection also contains a
description of Hamann‘s education and employment history before 1933 and a photocopy
of a letter from Sachsenhausen with a censor‘s stamp describing the confiscation of the
letter because the writer was an ―obstinate‖ Jehovah‘s Witness.
Biographical/historical note: Walter Hamann was born in Greiz, Germany, in 1904.
Languages: English, German 1938–1945
1 folder
Source of Acquisition: Walter Hamann
RG-24.016 --- We Will Never Die, by Ben Hecht
This play was written during World War II and was performed in various locations in the
United States. It relates to the persecution of European Jewry in Nazi-dominated Europe.
Provenance: Billy Rose Theatre Collection in the New York Public Library