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Black & white photographs Breslau, Germany (now Wrocaw, Poland), n.d. [ca. 19061914] Hans Lewy papers, BANC MSS 91/147 cz, The Bancroft Library
Lucille Marcland
Statement to the members of the Senate Committee on Priviledge [sic] and Tenure [concerning the Loyalty Oath]
Typed manuscript Berkeley, Calif., May 1950 Hans Lewy papers, 19061999, BANC MSS 91/147 cz, The Bancroft Library
In the course of a visit to the University of Prague during the fall of 1947, Hans Lewy reected on the inuence of the present state of science in Czechoslovakia of the Nazi occupation and its aftermath.
In an interview with William B. Wolf, then an undergraduate student at UC Berkeley (and later a professor in the School of Industrial and Labor Relations at Cornell University), Hans Lewy laconically described his arrival to the United States to this member of the younger generation. Lewy stated: Icame to America when Hitler came to power. I settled in France temporarily. I wanted to nd a country where I could settle permanently. I was offered a job in America and one in Spain. I decided to take the one in America. In the course of the interview, Lewy told the student that America was indeed the country he liked better for living.
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