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Leica Freedom Train : ウィキペディア英語版 | Leica Freedom Train
The Leica Freedom Train was a rescue effort in which hundreds of Jews were smuggled out of Nazi Germany before the Holocaust by Ernst Leitz II of the Leica Camera company, and his daughter Elsie Kuehn-Leitz.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Leica and the Nazis )〕 〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=The Hidden Leica Story, part 2 )〕 ==Background== Ernst Leitz's optics company, founded in Wetzlar in 1869, had a tradition of enlightened behavior toward its workers. Pensions, sick leave, health insurance — all were instituted early on at Leitz, which depended for its work force upon generations of skilled employees, many of whom were Jewish. As soon as Adolf Hitler was named chancellor of Germany in 1933, Ernst Leitz II, son of the founder and head of the company from 1920 to 1956,〔(Harvard History of Science )〕 began receiving frantic calls from Jewish associates, asking for help to get them and their families out of the country. As non-Jews, Leitz and his family were immune to Nazi Germany's Nürnberg Laws, which restricted the movement of Jews and limited their professional activities.
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