Eva Lips speech

Consists of a mimeographed transcript of a speech given by Eva Lips, a German-Jewish refugee from Cologne, Germany, at Christ Church in New York City on November 14, 1936. In the speech, she describes her impression of Hitler prior to 1933, and the ways in which she and her husband, University of Leipzig anthropologist Dr. Julius Lips, were persecuted after 1933. She also describes the confiscation of their library, the burning of their books, and experiencing constant surveillance. The couple emigrated to the United States through Paris in 1934. Eva Lips was born in Leipzig, Germany, in 1906, the daughter of Ernst Weigant, a publisher. She married Julius Lips, a professor at the University of Cologne who had studied psychology, anthropology, and law in Leipzig. Eva herself studied anthropolgy at universities in Cologne, Bonn, and Paris. In 1933, Julius Lips resigned his professorship at the University of Cologne and his directorship of the Ethnological Museum in Cologne (Rautenstrauch-Joest Museum). They emigrated to the United States via Paris in 1936. After the war, the couple returned to Leipzig, where they lived until Julius's death in 1950. Eva completed her doctorate in anthropology in 1951 and became a professor, retiring in 1966. She died in Leipzig in 1988.