Dr. Lilli Segal: correspondence and papers
Extent and Medium
1 folder
Biographical History
Lilli Segal, a German Jew, born in Berlin in 1913, fled to France after the Nazi seizure of power, where she engaged in illegal courier work to Germany and was finally arrested and deported to Auschwitz. She managed to escape from her work detail and fled to Switzerland. In the 1980s and 1990s she was involved in research into the history of Nazi medicine- she is the author of Die Hohenpriester der Vernichtung: Anthropologen, mediziner und Psychiater als Wegbereiter von Selektion und Mord im Dritten Reich, Dietz Berlin, 1991). She has also published her memoirs: Vom Widerspruch zum Widerstand: Errinerungen einer Tochter aus gutem Hause.
The collection consists of material accessioned at different times.
Acquisition
Donated c1990
Donor: Rabbi Hugo Grynn, Lilli Segal
Scope and Content
This collection consists of mostly copy correspondence between Lilli Segal and various individuals and organisations covering such subjects as the debate over how many people were murdered during the Holocaust; the activities of Nazi doctors; the extermination of Jews, Gypsies and Russians in Auschwitz; and concentration camp memorials.
System of Arrangement
The correspondence has been arranged into date order and numbered. The other material consisting mostly of copy newspaper articles is arranged separately.
Conditions Governing Access
Open
People
- Segal, Lilli
Subjects
- Holocaust
- Letters
- Medical crimes