The Willy Nordwind Collection is a real life testimony to humanity amidst hatred and destruction. Willy Nordwind and the Boston Committee for Refugees were able to save many German Jews from the Nazi regime by bringing them to the United States. The collection documents Willy Nordwind’s attempts to bring as many German Jews as possible out of Germany before World War II. Included here is correspondence with those who just came or those whom Willy Nordwind was still trying to bring over. In many cases correspondence is accompanied by additional materials such as immigration, financial, and professional documents, photographs, CVs. In addition to correspondence with émigrés there is also Willy Nordwind’s correspondence with other individuals ...