Under the Nazi regime, 1933-1938
Extent and Medium
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Archival History
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Acquisition
The United States Holocaust Research Institute Archives received the memoir in Aug 1994.
Scope and Content
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.
People
- Leyes, Hermann.
Subjects
- World War, 1939-1945--Underground literature.
- Discrimination in employment.
- Olympic Games (11th: 1936: Berlin, Germany)
- Race defilement (Nuremberg Laws of 1935)
- Anti-Jewish boycotts.
- Jews--Legal status, laws, etc.--Germany.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives.
- Kristallnacht, 1938.
- Antisemitism--Germany.
- Italy--Emigration and immigration--History--20th century.
Genre
- Document
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