M. Henri Azéma collection
Extent and Medium
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Archival History
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Acquisition
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Henri Azéma and Andrée Grininger
Funding Note: The cataloging of this collection has been supported by a grant from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.
Henri Azéma and Andrée Grininger donated the M. Henri Azéma collection to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 1992.
Scope and Content
Contains one photograph of Mayor Vincent Azema of Banyuls, France, and two newspapers from the 1980s. The copy of the newspaper "El Punt" features an article about Walter Benjamin's death while fleeing the Nazis in 1940; "Le journal independant" has a half-page interview with Lisa Fittko about her memoirs of the network that helped Jews escape across the Spanish border at Banyuls.
System of Arrangement
The M. Henri Azema collection is arranged in a single series.
People
- Benjamin, Walter, 1892-1940.
- Fittko, Lisa, 1909-2005.
- Azema, Vincent.
Subjects
- Banyuls-sur-Mer (France)
- World War, 1939-1945--Jews--Rescue.
Genre
- Document
- Newspaper articles.
- Photograph.