• Humm-Sernau, Lola

    1895-1990, worked from 1926 to 1941 as Lion Feuchtwanger’s secretary
  • Huxley, Aldous

    1894-1963, English writer, lived until 1937 in Sanary-sur-Mer and was in contact with German emigrants there
  • Immigrant police

    Name for the immigration authorities in Switzerland and Austria
  • International Red Aid

    Refugee aid by the Communist Parties of Germany and Austria (KPD and KPÖ)
  • International Revolutionary Theatre Association (IRTB)

    socialist professional organisation for people working in theatre; set up in Moscow in 1933 out of the International Workers’ Theatre Movement
  • Internationaler Sozialistischer Kampfbund [International Socialist Militant League]

    The International Socialist Militant League (ISK) was founded in 1925 by Göttingen physicist Leonard Nelson (1882-1927) as a splinter group of the SPD. The ISK publishing organ Der Funke published an urgent appeal in 1932 and 1933 by well-known people concerning a fusion of the SPD (Social Democrats) and KPD (Communists), in order to prevent the Nazis from establishing a dictatorship.
  • Isherwood, Christopher

    (1904-1986), English writer, lived from 1939 in the United States
  • Ismailism

    Ismailism, a Shiite Islam movement which recognizes Ismail (d. 760) as the successor of the Prophet Mohammed.
  • Jacques, Olly

    whose first name was actually Olga, née Hübner, 1878-1949, German actress. Lived after 1909 in Switzerland, where she provided accommodation for many artists in her home in Carabietta. 
  • Janka, Charlotte

    1914-2012, German translator and publicist, emigrated to France following active political involvement as a communist; continued to Mexico in 1941, remigration to the GDR in 1947