Presenter: Karen S. Franklin
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Holocaust resources go beyond camps and victims. Many are available to document rescue efforts and refugees. This session identifies research strategies and unusual sources that could be helpful for general research, and were used to flesh out one story, a remarkable odyssey of escape and refuge. In the 1930s and 1940s the Lehman family assisted over 200 refugees fleeing Europe. A dramatic case is that of Max Neugass, a German Jew who volunteered for the French resistance in 1938. There he was interned, escaped to Morocco and was re-interned. With Lehman assistance, he received an exit visa (think Casablanca) and reached Miami in June 1941 via Trinidad and Puerto Rico. Sources: Central Archives of the History of the Jewish People, JDC, German online library collections, various refugee organization records, national archives of countries of transit, Columbia U. Library, German WWI records, family interviews, and the Jewish Museum Berlin.