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Born Hans Hanauer to a Jewish family in Karlsruhe, Germany, Hal Hanauer Meyers was one of the children at the French concentration
camp Camp de Gurs who were rescued by Quakers in January 1941. He and his brother, Dieter, eventually were placed with Cleveland,
Ohio, philanthropists David and Inez Myers. Hans stayed in Cleveland, attended Case Institute of Technology, and eventually
changed his name to Hal Hanauer Myers. The collection consists of speeches, correspondence and envelopes, calendars, school
notebooks, various identification cards, scrapbook pages, news clippings, photographs, and books. Of particular interest are
his Nazi identification card, brief autobiographical speech given at Congregation Shaarey Tikvah, wartime correspondence with
his sister and family, some of which is in German, and notebooks used in the Quaker (American Friends Service Committee) refugee
camp to learn English and French.
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