Fritz Kauffmann speech
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Archival History
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Acquisition
Ellen Carsch donated this letter to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum on Nov. 15, 2005. Fritz Kauffmann was her first cousin.
Scope and Content
Consists of the English translation of a 1963 speech, 9 pages, by Fritz Kauffmann, entitled "The Jews in Shanghai during World War II: Memories of a board member of the Jewish Congregation." In the speech, Mr. Kauffmann described his life in Shanghai, where he had lived since 1931, during the war and his activities with the Middle European congregation. He was briefly imprisoned in 1942 by the Japanese in Shanghai.
Genre
- Document
- Speeches.