Emigrants organizations Emigrantenorganisationen (Fond 1313)
Extent and Medium
1 microfilm reel (partial), 16 mm
586 digital images, JPEG
Creator(s)
- Aktionsausschuss Deutscher Oppositionelle
- Bund Freie Presse und Literatur
- Ligue Autrichienne
Biographical History
The Bund free press and literature (BFPL) was a German association of independent writers and journalists in exile, which was founded in Paris on 7 July 1937th. The founders obtained from a liberal-humanistic base position against the Nazi and Stalinism. Thus, the BFPL was from the outset isolated among the politically active emigrants, who were committed in their vast majority to the communist-dominated popular front policy and were organized in the Association of German Writers (SDS). BFPL founder Hans Sahl called this exile in exile. As the center of exile after the start of World War II moved to the United States, the BFPL dissolved implied. The founding statute of the BFPL begins with the words: "Convinced that freedom of mind and expression is a precious commodity, and that an independent, clean and responsible press and literature, which is not subject to compulsion and terror, is one of the essential conditions for spiritual development and effective spiritual struggle [... ] " According to Dieter Schiller , nobody should belong to the covenant "who, while opening his mouth to a brown Reich culture chamber, accepts a red Reichskulturkammer."
Archival History
Rossiĭskiĭ gosudarstvennyĭ voennyĭ arkhiv
Acquisition
Forms part of the Claims Conference International Holocaust Documentation Archive at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. This archive consists of documentation whose reproduction and/or acquisition was made possible with funding from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.
Source of acquisition is the Russian State Military Archive (Rossiĭskiĭ gosudarstvennyĭ voennyĭ arkhiv), Osobyi Archive, Fond 1313. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives received the filmed collection via the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum International Archival Programs Division in 2006.
Scope and Content
Records of approximately ten small organizations of émigrés in Paris, including the Bund Freie Presse und Literatur (Bund Association for the Free Press and Literature, the Action Committee of German Oppositionists (Aktionsausschuss Deutscher Oppositioneller), and the Ligue Autrichienne (Austrian League). Includes correspondence, letter, application forms, individuals' biographical information forms, emigrants' requests for aid, postcards, notes, fragments of the Heinrich Mann book "An das deutsche Volk!: die Geburtstagsrede", and other printed materials. The largest file consists of 258 pages; the smallest consist of 3 pages. Note: USHMM Archives holds only selected records.
System of Arrangement
Fond 1313 (1920-1940). Opis 1; Dela 119. Arranged in four series: 1. Bund Freie Presse und Literatur; 2. Aktionsausschuss Deutscher Oppositionelle; 3. Ligue Autrichienne; 4. Miscellaneous records of other small organizations for emigrants. Note: Location of digital images; Partial microfilm reel # 456: Image #998-1584.
Conditions Governing Reproduction
Copyright Holder: Rossiĭskiĭ gosudarstvennyĭ voennyĭ arkhiv
People
- Rosenfeld, Kurt.
- Feuchtwanger, Lion, 1884-1958.
- Aktionsausschuss Deutscher Oppositionelle
- Budzislawski, Hermann.
- Schiller, Dieter.
- Mann, Heinrich.
- Bund Freie Presse und Literatur
- Mann, Klaus.
- Ligue Autrichienne
- Kuczynski, Jürgen.
- Schwarzschild, Leopold.
- Jessner, Leopold.
- Lang, Fritz, 1907-1963.
Subjects
- Associations, institutions, etc.
- Jewish refugees--France--History--20th century.
- Refugees
- Anti-Nazi movement--France.
- Committees.
- France
- Jews--Legal status, laws, etc.--Germany--History--20th century.
- Jews--Legal status, laws, etc.--France--History--20th century.
- France--Politics and government--1914-1940.
- Germany--Politics and government--1933-1945.
- World War, 1939-1945--Refugees--France.
- Emigration and immigration--Europe--20th century.
- France--History--German occupation, 1940-1945.
Genre
- Notes.
- Document
- Clippings (Books, newspapers, etc.)
- Letters.
- Correspondence.
- Postcards.