Walter Hamann collection

Identifier
irn504295
Language of Description
English
Alt. Identifiers
  • 1994.A.0071
  • RG-32.015
Dates
1 Jan 1992 - 31 Dec 1992
Level of Description
Item
Languages
  • English
  • German
Source
EHRI Partner

Extent and Medium

folder

1

Archival History

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Acquisition

Walter Hamann compiled the materials and donated them to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives in September 1992.

Scope and Content

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 the concentration camp of Neusustrum, in a Düsseldorf police prison, and in Sachsenhausen, where his brother-in-law died from mistreatment. The 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.

Subjects

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