Lawrence Simpson

Released
Gender:Male
Race:White
Era:1930s
State:Washington
Support
Communism Anti-Fascism
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Biography

Lawrence Simpson was an American seaman seized by Nazi secret police from the American ship Manhattan at Hamburg in 1935 for possessing anti-fascist literature, and held in a German prison and concentration camp for years while the ILD campaigned for his release.

Case

Arrested: 1935
Sentence: Imprisoned in Germany; freed after an international campaign.
Convicted: Held in Nazi prisons and camps from 1935

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