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1. "My Father Henry's Route to America: Trenches, Harlem Hell Fighters, POW, AWOL, Stowaway and Illegal Immigrant"
2016.501.1 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 39
Document | Accession Number: 2016.501.1
Date:
publication/distribution: 2016
…"My Father Henry's Route to America: Trenches, Harlem Hell Fighters, POW, AWOL, Stowaway and Illegal Immigrant"…
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2. Richard and Ernestine Benes papers
1998.A.0162.2 Box 1 Folder 2 Image 3
Document | Accession Number: 1998.A.0162.2
Date:
inclusive: 1920-1942
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… immigrated to the United States in 1947.…
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 … contain a diary, biographical material, and emigration and immigration documents relating to Richard and Ernestine Benes’ attempts to emigrate from Austria…
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3. Edith Stein papers
Document | Accession Number: 2019.347.1
Date:
inclusive: 1930-1985
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… a Protestant family, the Brassels, until liberation. After the war, the family returned to Antwerp. In 1951 they immigrated to the United States with…
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4. Joseph Berger papers
1994.A.0187 Box 1 Folder 6 Image 1
Document | Accession Number: 1994.A.0187
Date:
inclusive: 1943-1990
… with Anna Astman, whom he married in 1944. He found Celina after the war and immigrated to the United States in 1947 with her, his new wife, and their…
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 … tickets, business permits, immigration documents, restitution paperwork, and a photograph documenting Joseph Berger and his family, the Lwów ghetto…
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5. Carl Lenneberg papers
2011.259.1 Box 1 Folder 2 Image 2
Document | Accession Number: 2011.259.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1913-1975
bulk: 1939-1940
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… Army, during the First World War. He was awarded several medals for his combat service. Carl’s fiancé, Hildegarde Hilb (Hilde, b. 1912 in Ulm) immigrated…
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 … biographical materials, immigration documents, a diary, newspaper clippings, and photographs relating to Carl Lenneberg’s experiences aboard the MS St. Louis…
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6. Hess family papers
2000.130.2 Box 1 Folder 5 Image 34
Document | Accession Number: 2000.130.2
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inclusive: circa 1915-1944
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… family members in the United States were able to provide affidavits and secure paperwork for immigration to America. Adolf died in 1944, before his family…
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 … photocopies of biographical material, emigration and immigration material, newspapers, and a diary relating to Adolf and Jette Hess and their daughters Ilse and…
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7. Bernard Frum papers
1994.A.0136 Box 1 Folder 3 Image 1
Document | Accession Number: 1994.A.0136 | RG Number: RG-10.152
Date:
inclusive: circa 1929-1960
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… Bernard and Lucy’s immigration to America. In 1946, Bernard was granted a medical visa and Lucy was granted permission to come with him. Both of Bernard…
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 …, a diary, and immigration documents relating to Bernard Frum and his wife Lucy Frum’s escape from Germany to Shanghai during the Holocaust as well as…
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8. Stripounsky family papers
2016.322.18 Box 2 Folder 2 Image 15
Document | Accession Number: 2016.322.18
Date:
inclusive: 1912-2014
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… family fled to France when Germany invaded Belgium in 1940. They lived in Nîmes and Gratentour and then immigrated to the United States with the help of…
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 … of identification, education, immigration, and military papers, correspondence, photographs, printed materials, and writings documenting the flight of…
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9. Zyga Butler papers
2016.507.1 Box 1 Folder 4 Image 3
Document | Accession Number: 2016.507.1
Date:
inclusive: 1939-1979
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…The Zyga Butler papers include a diary, correspondence, and photographs as well as academic, claims, employment, immigration, medical, and military…
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 …, DC 20024-2126. Abstract: The Zyga Butler papers include a diary, correspondence, and photographs as well as academic, claims, employment, immigration…
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10. Fritz Grünberg papers
2015.468.1 Box 1 Folder 4 Image 5
Document | Accession Number: 2015.468.1
Date:
inclusive: 1922-1979
bulk: 1940-1945
…-1939) Grünberg. He had one brother, Leo (1908-1987), and two sisters, Hedwig (b. 1909) and Bertha (b. 1916). All of his siblings immigrated to the United…
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 … collection consists of biographical materials, including identification papers, correspondence, and immigration documents; photographs; and material related to…
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11. Fruma Gulkowitz-Berger papers
2017.262.5 Box 1 Folder 22 Image 2
Document | Accession Number: 2017.262.5
Date:
inclusive: 1930-1990
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… Anzio DP camp in Italy. Fruma and Murray married while in Italy, and immigrated to the United States in 1947. They settled in New York and had two sons…
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 …). The collection includes identification papers and immigration documents of Fruma, Murray, and Murray’s brother Elliot; manuscripts of essays and poems…
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12. Steven Vogel papers
2002.175.5 Box 1 Folder 17 Image 29
Document | Accession Number: 2002.175.5
Date:
inclusive: circa 1859-2009
bulk: 1940-1958
… labor camps, though most news was hidden from them in Hungary. While still in law school, Steven received a permit and visa to immigrate to the United…
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 …, Hungary including his deportations to the Auschwitz-Birkenau and Mauthausen concentration camps and his immigration to the United States in 1945. Included…
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13. Jäckel and Wetterhahn family papers
2017.297.1 Book Enclosure 1 Image 5
Document | Accession Number: 2017.297.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1920-2002
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… immigrated to the United States in 1940. In 1937, Julius visited family in the United States in order to obtain affidavits from Gertrud’s family and in 1938…
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 … 1939 and eventually immigrated to the United States in 1940. In 1937, Julius visited family in the United States in order to obtain affidavits from…
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14. Susan Warsinger papers
1995.A.0470.2 Box 1 Folder 9 Image 43
Document | Accession Number: 1995.A.0470.2
Date:
inclusive: 1934-1949
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… Immigrant Aid Society (HIAS) personnel came to the children’s home in search of Susi and Josef. Israel had asked HIAS to help him get his children out. Israel…
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 …’s Holocaust experiences as a Jewish child from Bad Kreuznach, Germany who took refuge in France from 1939 until she immigrated to the United States in 1941…
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15. Joseph Feingold papers
2017.99.1 Box 1 Folder 4 Image 2
Document | Accession Number: 2017.99.1
Date:
inclusive: 1922-1996
bulk: 1922-1948
… Fajngolds chose to immigrate there, with Aron departing in 1946, Alex in 1947, and Joseph in August 1948. Joseph studied at Cooper Union and Columbia…
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 … Soviet Union, and Feingold’s immigration to the United States in 1948. Languages: English, Polish, Yiddish. Administrative Information Access: Collection…
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16. Schifferes family papers
2003.134 Box 2 Folder 17 Image 5
Document | Accession Number: 2003.134
Date:
1930-1939
…Liese Strauss Schifferes (1916-1956) was born in Vienna to Dr. Hugo Strauss and Sophie Kurz Strauss. She immigrated to the United States in November…
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 … immigration records, and subject files documenting the lives of Bertha, Liese, and Stephan Schifferes in Austria, Germany, England, and the United States and…
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17. Weidhorn family papers
Document | Accession Number: 2022.29.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1920-2006
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bulk: 1932-1948
… Paris to be reunited with Aron. Aron planned to immigrate to the United States with the help of relatives in the U.S., and then bring his family over. In…
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 … Anne and Aron Weidhorn, including their flight from Vienna, Austria after the German- annexation of Austria in March 1938, Aron’s immigration to the…
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18. Lichtenberg and Stein families papers
2014.408.1 Box 1 Folder 7 Image 24
Document | Accession Number: 2014.408.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1901-2001
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…, born in Frankfurt, Germany) Stein and had two brothers, Siegfried (Fred) and Benjamin (Benny, 1909-1944?). Irma immigrated to the United States in 1940…
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 … records for Hermann, and immigration records for Alfred, Hermann and Kathe, Hermann’s sister, as well as family photographs. Stein family papers include…
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19. Monique Joseph papers
Document | Accession Number: 2019.595.1
Date:
inclusive: 1820-2007
bulk: 1920-1951
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… September 1947 she immigrated to the United States aboard the S.S. Marine Tiger. She settled in New York where she reconnected with fellow Holocaust survivor…
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 … his family. Included are identification papers, false-identity documents, an autograph album, immigration papers, correspondence, memoirs, and…
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20. Nachmias family papers
2016.498.1 Box 1 Folder 4 Image 16
Document | Accession Number: 2016.498.1
Date:
inclusive: 1936-2016
… emigrate. Having met an American who befriended him during a business trip to Sweden in 1937, and who subsequently offered to sponsor his immigration…
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 … immigration of Jacob Nachmias, and his parents and sister, from Sofia, Bulgaria to the United States in 1939, as well as biographical documents pertaining to…
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