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Title: Irma C. Erman papers
Dates: 1924-1998
Collection Number: 78036
Creator: Erman, Irma C., 1908-2000.
Collection Size:
10 manuscript boxes, 1 oversize box, 6 linear feet, 4 paintings
(12.4 linear feet)
Repository:
Hoover Institution Archives
Stanford, California 94305-6010
Abstract: Correspondence, writings, personal documents, printed matter, photographs, and art objects, relating to German Jewish émigré
affairs, the history of antisemitism, and Jewish refugees from Nazi persecution. Includes two plays dramatizing the actions
of Paul Grüninger, a Swiss police captain, and Mitsugi Shibata, a Japanese official, in saving the lives of Jewish refugees
in Austria and China, respectively, during World War II.
Physical Location: Hoover Institution Archives
Languages: In
English
German
Collection is open for research.
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[Identification of item], Irma C. Erman papers, [Box number], Hoover Institution Archives.
Acquired by the Hoover Institution Archives in 1978.
Materials may have been added to the collection since this finding aid was prepared. To determine if this has occurred, find
the collection in Stanford University's online catalog at
http://searchworks.stanford.edu/ . Materials have been added to the collection if the number of boxes listed in the online catalog is larger than the number
of boxes listed in this finding aid.
German Jewish writer; subsequently émigré in China and the United States.
Scope and Content of Collection
Correspondence, writings, personal documents, printed matter, photographs, and art objects, relating to German Jewish émigré
affairs, the history of antisemitism, and Jewish refugees from Nazi persecution. Includes two plays dramatizing the actions
of Paul Grüninger, a Swiss police captain, and Mitsugi Shibata, a Japanese official, in saving the lives of Jewish refugees
in Austria and China, respectively, during World War II.
The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the library's online public access catalog.
Grüninger, Paul, 1891-1972.
Shibata, Mitsugi, dd. 1977.
Antisemitism--History.
Refugees.
World War, 1939-1945--Jews.
Germans--China.
Germans--United States.
Jews--Germany.
Art objects.