[Report about the situation for Jews in Nazi occupied Luxemburg and escape in 1941]
Extent and Medium
1 electronic resource (14 pages)
Creator(s)
- Buxton, G. Edward Jr., 1880-1949
- Sternberg, Louis
- Sequerra, Samuel, 1913-1992
- Kahn, Felix, 1894-1981
Scope and Content
Eyewittness accountof Felix Kahn about the situation in Nazi occupied Luxemburg and his efforts to flee Luxemburg. Felix Kahn succeeded to escape Luxemburg in 1941 through Portugal to the United States. Several documents concerning his escape are in the file next to his handwritten and typed testimony from 1977. His testimony is about the persecution of the Jews in Luxemburg and the deportations of the Jews from Luxemburg and his efforts to receive visas and his escape to Spain and the help of an emissary of the Joint in Lissabon. Letters and notices of the former president of the Jewish community in Luxemburg Sternberg and the Joint are about permissions for Kahn. A letter of the Belium consulate in Barcelona. Letters of Sequerra and Edward Buxton.
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Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements
Mode of access: WWW
Note(s)
Electronic access only
copies of telegrams; typed and handwritten correspondence
Electronic text and image data. Jerusalem : Yad Vashem 2015
Title viewed 24.08.17
People
- American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee
Subjects
- Jews--Luxembourg--History
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Luxembourg