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Summary
- Creator:
- Emergency Rescue Committee
- Abstract:
- This collection contains files (photocopies) of the Emergency Rescue Committee including letters, registration cards, and other materials of this New York City-based organization concerning some 170 Émigrés and their efforts to flee to the United States from Nazi persecution. Includes files about Alfred Döblin, Hans Natonek, Nelly Sachs, Fritz von Unruh, and Friderike Zweig.
- Extent:
- 3 cubic ft.
- Language:
- French , English .
- Preferred citation:
Preferred citation for this material is as follows: Identification of specific item, series, box, folder, Emergency Rescue Committee Records, 1936-1956. M.E. Grenander Department of Special Collections and Archives, University Libraries, University at Albany, State University of New York (hereafter referred to as the Emergency Rescue Committee Records).
Background
- Scope and Content:
This collection contains files (photocopies) of the Emergency Rescue Committee, founded in June 1940 in New York by German and American intellectuals and academics soon after the Nazi invasion of France. The files contain letters, registration cards, and other materials of the New York City-based organization concerning some 170 Émigrés and their efforts to flee to the United States from Nazi persecution. Includes files about Alfred Döblin, Hans Natonek, Nelly Sachs, Fritz von Unruh, and Friderike Zweig.
- Biographical / Historical:
The Emergency Rescue Committee (ERC) was founded in June 1940 in New York by German and American intellectuals and academics soon after the Nazi invasion of France. The ERC assisted artists, intellectuals and political dissidents who were under threat in occupied France by providing them financial aid and visas, both legal and illegal, allowing passage to the United States. as an agent of the newly formed Emergency Rescue Committee, Varian Fry raised money and went to France to assist intellectuals that were under the threat of arrest by the Gestapo. By 1950 the Emergency Rescue Committee and International Relief Association combined to form the International Rescue Committee.
- Acquisition information:
- All items in this collection were transferred to the University Libraries, M.E. Grenander Department of Special Collections and Archives by Dr. John Spalek in 1979.
- Arrangement:
The collection has no series, arranged alphabetically
- Physical location:
- The materials are located onsite in the department.
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- PREFERRED CITATION:
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Preferred citation for this material is as follows: Identification of specific item, series, box, folder, Emergency Rescue Committee Records, 1936-1956. M.E. Grenander Department of Special Collections and Archives, University Libraries, University at Albany, State University of New York (hereafter referred to as the Emergency Rescue Committee Records).