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Correspondence, documents, photographs, and printed materials documenting his displacement in Europe, his emigration to the United States, and the legal steps he took to obtain reparations from Germany.
Correspondence & documents
Gift of Eric Zafran, 2014. Accession number: 2015.2016.M105
Arranged. Box 1: Correspondence & documents; Box 2: Backpack & contents used during his escape from France.
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Identification of specific item; Date (if known); Walter Samuel Lentschner papers; Box and Folder; Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Columbia University Library.
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Gift of Eric and Enid Zafran, 2001.
Papers: Source of acquisition--Zafran, Eric & Enid. Method of acquisition--Gift; Date of acquisition--07/09/2001. Accession number--M-01-07-09.
Columbia University Libraries, Rare Book and Manuscript Library
Papers Processed HR 01/22/2002.
2009-06-26 File created.
2019-05-20 EAD was imported spring 2019 as part of the ArchivesSpace Phase II migration.
Medical photographer who fled his native Germany when the Nazis took over in 1933. He moved to Paris and eventually was interned in Camp Le Vernet, near Marseilles. He came to the United States in 1941 with the help of Varian Fry and the Centre Americain de Secours in Marseilles.