My meeting with Heinrich Himmler - April 20/21, 1945
Extent and Medium
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Creator(s)
- Norbert Masur
Biographical History
Norbert Masur (1901-1971) was born in 1901 in Friedrichstadt, Germany to Leiser and Hanna Masur. He served as a Swedish representative to the World Jewish Congress. In April 1945 he negotiated with Heinrich Himmler for the release of 7,000 Jewish women from the Ravensbrück concentration camp, and the women arrived in Sweden in April 1945. After World War II, he immigrated to Tel Aviv.
Archival History
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Acquisition
Funding Note: The cataloging of this collection has been supported by a grant from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.
Henry Karger donated My Meetin with Heinrich Himmler to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 1993.
Scope and Content
The collection consists of three versions of Norbert Masur's report of his meeting with Heinrich Himmler on April 20-21, 1945. Included is a copy of Masur’s original report in German, a version entitled “En Jude Talar Med Himmler” published in Swedish in 1945, and an English translation completed by Masur’s nephwer, Henry Karger. Masur was a member of the Swedish section of the World Jewish Congress. At his meeting with Himmler, Norbert Masur negotiated the release of 7,000 Jewish women from Ravensbrück concentration camp, and the women arrived in Sweden in April 1945.
System of Arrangement
The collection is arranged in a single series.
People
- Masur, Norbert, 1901-1971.
- Himmler, Heinrich, 1900-1945.
Subjects
- Holocaust survivors.
- World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives.
- Germany.
- World War, 1939-1945--Jews--Rescue.
- Concentration camp inmates.
- Sweden.
Genre
- Personal narratives.
- Document
- Memoirs.