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“Then I started off on this magnificent barge from Ludwigshafen, armed with a toothbrush and a towel.”

Max Diamant on His Flight

In an audio contribution from 1983, Max Diamant tells how he was able to cross the Rhine to France unnoticed by ship.

Max Diamant’s Certificate of Identity for Refugees from Germany

In August 1938, Max Diamant receives an identity card that allowes him to stay in France as a refugee.

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Max Diamant in Emigration

The pictures from his daughter’s private archive show Max Diamant (1906-1992) with family and friends in Paris, Mexico and Germany.

“The work that I did brought forth such immediate results and impact. Those were human lives that were saved.”

Max Diamant on Escape Aid in Lisbon

In an audio contribution from 1983, Max Diamant tells how he organized escape aid from Lisbon in cooperation with the Emergency Rescue Committee led…

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