Joyce Hay collection
Extent and Medium
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Archival History
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Acquisition
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum collection, gift of Jeff and Joyce Hay
Funding Note: The cataloging of this collection has been supported by a grant from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.
Jeff and Joyce Hay donated the Joyce Hay collection to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2019.
Scope and Content
Contains a carbon copy of a letter, dated June 19, 1940 to “Minister Lammers” in Berlin [Hans Heinrich Lammers, head of Nazi chancellory] from the Archbishop of Freiburg and the Vicar of Rottenburg, Germany stating they have been informed that “mentally ill” are being euthanized and they request that this “procedure which is forbidden through Christian law” be stopped. Also includes a carbon copy of a letter, dated July 19, 1940 to Wilhelm Frick from Theophil Wurm, head of the protestant church in Germany and opponent of the Nazi party, in Stuttgart, in which Wurm states local population around Schloss Grafeneck [Nazi killing center] are aware of the hundreds of patients arriving and likely being euthanized and his strong opposition to “death through human intervention.”
System of Arrangement
The Joyce Hay collection is arranged in a single series.
People
- Wurm, Theophil, 1868-1953.
- Frick, Wilhelm, 1877-1946.
- Lammers, Hans, 1879-1962.
Subjects
- Germany.
- Euthanasia--Germany.
- Schloss Grafeneck.
Genre
- Correspondence.
- Document