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1. Hauer and Honig families papers
Document | Accession Number: 2019.439.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1890-1976
bulk: 1930-1947
… began searching for ways to emigrate from Germany. Quotas and restrictions made the search difficult, but the family learned that they could immigrate to…
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 … Berlin, immigration to Shanghai in 1939, and immigration to the United States in 1947. Included are identification documents, immigration paperwork, and…
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2. Cohn, Heinemann, and Rhée families papers
Document | Accession Number: 2019.210.2
Date:
inclusive: circa 1890-2016
…, 1926-2000). In 1933, Hans immigrated to England and Robert went to the Netherlands. Shortly after Kristallnacht, Eva and her parents went to England with…
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 … Lüneburg in 2015 for objects acquired by the museum after Marcus’s assets were seized after Kristallnacht. Included are biographical materials, immigration…
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3. Hans Praschkauer papers
Document | Accession Number: 2006.398.1
Date:
inclusive: 1920-2002
… includes applications, medical and financial records, and ship information relating to their immigration to the United States in 1949. Biographical material…
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 … to their immigration to the United States in 1949. Languages: German, Chinese, English Administrative Information Access: Collection is open for use…
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4. Langer family papers
2017.616.1 Box 1 Folder 17 Image 1
Document | Accession Number: 2017.616.1
Date:
inclusive: 1906-2009
… 1938. They survived the Holocaust in Shanghai and later immigrated to the United States. Ignatz Langer (1893-1960) was born on 22 April 1893 in Lwów…
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 … immigration to the United States. The collection consists of biographical material, immigration documents, correspondence, and photographs. Languages: German…
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5. Annemarie Warschauer papers
2012.244.1 Box 2 Folder 10 Image 1
Document | Accession Number: 2012.244.1
Date:
inclusive: 1896-2003
bulk: 1912-1952
… immigration quotas were filled. Shanghai, China, required no special visas, so Annemarie, Egon, and Anna and Leo decided to go there in 1940. Leaving all their…
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 …, China during the Holocaust. The collection includes biographical material, immigration papers, a small amount of correspondence, restitution papers, and…
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6. Eva Hirschel family papers
2016.351.1 Box 1 Folder 22 Image 30
Document | Accession Number: 2016.351.1
Date:
inclusive: 1914-2006
bulk: 1914-1975
… 1947 Eva and Hedwig immigrated to the United States on the SS General Gordon and settled in San Francisco, California. Max Left Shanghai in 1948 and went…
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 …. Included are identification and employment documents, testimonies, and photographs. Immigration papers primarily document Eva and Hedwig’s immigration to the…
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7. Schulhof family papers
2017.133.1 Box 1 Folder 12 Image 14
Document | Accession Number: 2017.133.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1882-1999
bulk: 1903-1948
… Schulhofs began exploring ways to emigrate. They wanted to immigrate to the United States, but despite efforts from relatives already living there, they were…
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 … research; wartime correspondence with relatives in the United States and Europe, many of whom would perish at Auschwitz; immigration papers documenting the…
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8. Theodore Mattern family papers
2016.306.1 Box 1 Folder 10 Image 26
Document | Accession Number: 2016.306.1
Date:
inclusive: 1924-1999
bulk: 1903-1941
…The collection contains correspondence, photographs, and other related documents, documenting the immigration of the Mattern (originally Matfus…
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 … correspondence, photographs, and other related documents, documenting the immigration of the Mattern (originally Matfus) family from Vienna, Austria in 1938‐ 1939…
9. Oral history interview with Al Buchler
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.624 | RG Number: RG-50.477.0624
Date:
interview: 1989 November 14
interview: 1898 December 12
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… as a child. He describes his father's attempts to obtain visas to Brazil and Chile, without success, and the family's immigration to Shanghai, China…
10. Meyerstein and Echt families papers
Document | Accession Number: 2019.393.1
Date:
inclusive: 1930-2015
bulk: 1930-1983
… 1937. They briefly lived in Göttingen and then split up. Werner and Hermann immigrated to London in 1939. Hermann remarried a woman named Emma Marx (1887…
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 … Werner Meyerstein and his father Hermann Meyerstein’s flight from Göttingen, Germany in 1939 to London, Werner and his wife Olga Sofie’s immigration to…
11. Nachum family papers
Document | Accession Number: 2013.505.1
Date:
inclusive: 1902-1988
…. Identification documents, passports, and immigration documents, related to the emigration of Siegfried (later Fred) and Rosa Nachum, and their sone Uri (later…
12. Gerda Buchheim Haas photograph and memoir
1999.A.0209 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 1
Document | Accession Number: 1999.A.0209
Date:
inclusive: 1941-1996
… sister’s and her husband’s families. They immigrated to the United States in 1947 and traveled first from San Francisco to Portland before settling in…
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 … Japanese occupation, and immigrating to the United States in 1947. Languages: English Administrative Information Access: Collection is open…
13. Margot Lichtenstein collection
Document | Accession Number: 2015.192.1
Date:
inclusive: 1936-2005
bulk: 1936-1947
… album pages with images of their immigration from Italy to Shanghai via the Suez Canal, Eritrea, India, and Hong Kong, and of life in Shanghai. Also…
14. Rudolf and Helga Hauptmann Bettsack collection
Document | Accession Number: 2008.162.1
Date:
1920-1980
… immigration from Shanghai to the United States in 1947. Also includes paperwork for restitution claims and receipts for restitution claims for Helga Bessac.…
15. Oral history interview with Werner Bergh
Oral History | Accession Number: 2019.125.26 | RG Number: RG-90.057.0026
Date:
interview: 1981 April 08
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… Germany with his parents in 1938 and going to Shanghai, China; the large Jewish refugee community in Shanghai; immigrating to the United States with his…
16. Oral history interview with Ernie Glaser
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.1191 | RG Number: RG-50.477.1191
Date:
interview: 1984 December 07
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…; the family's decision to immigrate to the United States in July 1947; their arrival in San Francisco, CA; and his life as an immigrant in the United…
17. Oral history interview with Else Nowak
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1997.A.0441.440 | RG Number: RG-50.462.0440
Date:
interview: 1983 May 09
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… circa 1937; effects of the Nuremberg laws on her children's education and life; immigrating to Shanghai, China in 1939; and bringing her parents to…
18. Löwenstein and Stern families papers
2017.661.1 Box 2 Folder 1 Image 6a
Document | Accession Number: 2017.661.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1900-1981
…. 1913). Alfred and a friend fled Germany for Shanghai aboard the MN Victoria in 1939. He survived the war in Shanghai and immigrated to the United States…
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 … and immigrated to the United States in 1947 aboard the SS General Cordon. He married Lola Stern (whom he had known in Shanghai) in 1948 and they had one…
19. Oral history interview with Paul Richards
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.783 | RG Number: RG-50.477.0783
Date:
interview: 1990 May 03
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… ghetto in Shanghai, where he lived until 1947; his immigration to the United States; and his life in the San Francisco.…
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 … opted for America. How long did it take you to get here? You mean? Like for the red tape, so that you could immigrate? That took quite a while. Now, I don…
20. Oral history interview with Hans Dreyer
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2009.214.13 | RG Number: RG-50.617.0013
Date:
interview: 1980 February 12-1981 August 26
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Collection consists of 88 oral testimonies, conducted in the early 1980s by Sophie Caplan and Konrad Kwiet, with Holocaust survivors who immigrated…