Lena Fishman Fagen collection

Identifier
irn504399
Language of Description
English
Alt. Identifiers
  • 1995.A.0094
  • RG-06.022
Dates
1 Jan 1921 - 31 Dec 1951, 1 Jan 1933 - 31 Dec 1944
Level of Description
Item
Languages
  • German
  • English
Source
EHRI Partner

Web Source

https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn504399

Extent and Medium

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Creator(s)

  • Lena F. Fagen

Biographical History

Lena Fishman Fagen was born Lena Fischmann in Russia. Before World War II, she worked in Paris at the Liaison Committee for the High Commissioner for Refugees. She fled Paris when the Germans invaded, made her way to Marseilles, and found work with Varian Fry and the Emergency Rescue Committee. She escaped to the United States via Lisbon with Fry's help in December 1940 and continued her work for the Emergency Rescue Committee in New York. She returned to Europe after World War II and worked as a document screener for the prosecution at the Nuremberg war crime trials.

Archival History

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Acquisition

Melvin Fagen donated the Lena Fishman Fagen collection to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 1995. Melvin Fagen was Lena Fishman Fagen’s ex-husband.

Scope and Content

The Lena Fishman Fagen collection consists of original documents Fagen collected while working as a chief document screener for the prosecution at the Nuremberg war crime trials. Most of the records are original signed correspondence addressed to Alfred Rosenberg or his adjutants, Adolf von Trotha or Werner Koeppen. Correspondents include high-ranking Nazi party officials such as Adolf Hitler, Hermann Göring, Hans Frank, and Joseph Goebbels. The collection also includes four Nuremberg trial briefs and a 1951 report on the sentences of Nuremberg-convicted war criminals.

System of Arrangement

The Lena Fishman Fagen papers are arranged as four series: Series 1: Alfred Rosenberg correspondence with Nazi party officials, 1924-1944 Series 2: Alfred Rosenberg correspondence with Reich offices, 1926-1944 Series 3: Alfred Rosenberg general correspondence, 1921-1945 Series 4: Publications and trial briefs, circa 1946-1951

People

  • Trotha, Adolf von, 1868-1940.
  • Frank, Hans, 1900-1946.
  • Keitel, Wilhelm, 1882-1946.
  • Bormann, Martin, 1900-1945.
  • Ley, Robert, -1945.
  • Sauckel, Fritz, 1894-1946.
  • Schirach, Baldur von, 1907-
  • Streicher, Julius, 1885-1946.
  • Kaufmann, Karl, 1900-
  • Daitz, Werner.
  • Mies van der Rohe, Ludwig, 1886-1969.
  • Heydrich, Reinhard, 1904-1942.
  • Frick, Wilhelm, 1877-1946.
  • Todt, Fritz, 1891-1942.
  • Göring, Hermann, 1893-1946.
  • Goebbels, Joseph, 1897-1945.
  • Jodl, Alfred, 1890-1946.
  • Ludendorff, Erich, 1865-1937.
  • Darré, Richard Walther, 1895-1953.
  • Hitler, Adolf, 1889-1945.

Corporate Bodies

  • International Military Tribunal

Subjects

  • War crime trials.
  • Nuremberg War Crime Trials, Nuremberg, Germany, 1946-1949.
  • War criminals.

Genre

This description is derived directly from structured data provided to EHRI by a partner institution. This collection holding institution considers this description as an accurate reflection of the archival holdings to which it refers at the moment of data transfer.

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