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21. Hess family papers
2000.130.2 Box 1 Folder 5 Image 34
Document | Accession Number: 2000.130.2
Date:
inclusive: circa 1915-1944
undated: 
Special Collection:
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… camp during Kristallnacht in 1938. He was released four weeks later after promising to leave Germany. Vera and her family left for Cuba aboard the MS St…
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 … Accession number: 2000.130.2 Creator: Hess (Family : Berga, Germany) Extent: 0.5 linear feet (5 folders and 3 oversize folders) Repository: United States…
22. Liesl Joseph Loeb papers
1991.164.118 Box 1 Folder 14 Image 8
Document | Accession Number: 1991.164.118
Date:
inclusive: 1938-1993
bulk: 1938-1945
…Liesl Joseph was born in Rheydt, Germany, on June 17,1928, the only child of Josef, born November 9, 1882, in Altenbamberg, and Lilly Salmon Joseph…
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 … Germany and voyage on the St. Louis, the Passenger Committee’s work to find refuge for the ship’s passengers, and the Joseph family’s arrival in England…
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23. MS St. Louis floor plan
1991.164.116 front
Object | Accession Number: 1991.164.116
Date:
received: approximately 1939
…Liesl Joseph was born in Rheydt, Germany, on June 17,1928, the only child of Josef, born November 9, 1882, in Altenbamberg, and Lilly Salmon Joseph…
24. Ursula Traugott papers
1991.192 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 2
Document | Accession Number: 1991.192 | RG Number: RG-10.454
Date:
1939
… interned on the Isle of Man as an enemy alien. When he was released, he married a woman from Berlin, Germany, and ran a small business in London, England.…
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 … alien. When he was released, he married a woman from Berlin, Germany, and ran a small business in London, England. Scope and content of collection The…
25. Ohringer and Weil families papers
2015.203.1 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 5
Document | Accession Number: 2015.203.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1917-1988
bulk: 1921-1957
undated: 
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…Sigmund Ohringer (1912-1991) was born in Cottbus, Germany to Jakub (or Jacob, 1888-1948) and Mariem (née Ohrenstein, 1888-1976). Sigmund had three…
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 … families papers Dates: approximately 1917-1988 and undated (bulk 1921-1957) Accession number: 2015.203.1 Creator: Ohringer (Family: Cottbus, Germany…
26. Jacobson family papers
1995.A.0196.2 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 13
Document | Accession Number: 1995.A.0196.2
Date:
inclusive: 1938-1989
…Rudolph Jacobson was born Rudolf Cohen in 1933 in Insterburg (East Prussia), Germany. His parents divorced the following year, and his mother…
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 ….2 Creator: Jacobson (Family : Bamberg, Germany) Extent: 0.5 linear foot (5 folders) Repository: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives, 100 Raoul…
27. Ruth Loeb Forrest papers
Document | Accession Number: 1999.6
Date:
inclusive: 1938-1939
…Ruth Loeb Forrest was born on August 9, 1932, in Rastatt, Germany and had a brother Armin (1930-1976). Her father, Leopold Lob (1898-1989) was a…
28. Morris Troper papers
1997.36.15 Box 1 Folder 16 Image 1
Document | Accession Number: 1997.36.15
Date:
inclusive: 1935-post 1962
…Morris Troper was born on November 18, 1892 in New York City. His father, Abraham, was born in Germany and immigrated to the United States as a young…
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 … father, Abraham, was born in Germany and immigrated to the United States as a young child while his mother, Rose, was born in Austria. Troper was the…
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29. Dobiecki family papers
2007.447.1 BookEnclosure Folder 1 Image 9
Document | Accession Number: 2007.447.1
Date:
inclusive: 1922-1977
…, Germany. Hella married Hans Meyer (1905-1944) and they immigrated to Rio de Janeiro, Brazil in 1937. They divorced by 1942. Bronia immigrated to the…
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 ….447.1 Creator: Dobiecki family (Essen :Germany) Extent: .5 linear feet (1 box, 2 book enclosures, 1 oversize folder) Repository: United States Holocaust Memorial…
30. Fritz Buff papers
2007.121.1 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 2
Document | Accession Number: 2007.121.1
Date:
inclusive: 1939-1940
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…Fritz (now Fred) Buff (1921-2017) was the son of Julius and Emma Buff. He was born on July 26, 1921 in Krumbach, Germany, a small Bavarian town where…
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 …, Germany, his voyage aboard the MS St. Louis to Cuba in 1939, the ship’s forced return to Europe, his life as a refugee in Brussels, Belgium, and his…
31. Berg and Hermanns families papers
1989.232.31 front
Document | Accession Number: 1989.232.31
Date:
inclusive: circa 1880-1957
…Joseph and Klara (Meyer) Berg lived in the small farming community of Lechenich (Erfstadt), Germany (near Cologne) and had two daughters: Inge (b…
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 …: approximately 1880-1957 Accession number: 1989.232.31 Creator: Berg (Family : Lechenich, Germany) Additional creator: Hermanns (Family : Mönchengladbach, Germany…
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 …, Germany (near Cologne), where her father earned his living as a cattle dealer. The Berg family had lived in that area since the 1600s. Gisela has one older…
32. Large black wardrobe trunk used by German Jewish refugees on the MS St. Louis
Object | Accession Number: 1998.65.1 a-f
Date:
use: 1939 May-1940 April
…Egon Josef Salmon was born on June 4, 1924, in Rheydt, Germany, to Paul and Erna Weinberg Salmon. Egon had a sister, Edith, born on August 24, 1933…
33. Siegfried and Alma Seligmann family papers
1991.153 Box 1 Folder 3 Image 5
Document | Accession Number: 1991.153
Date:
inclusive: 1938-1941
…Ursula Lowenstein was born in Ronnenberg, Germany in 1923 to cattle dealer Siegfried Seligman and his wife Alma. Siegfried was sent to Buchenwald…
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 … Ursula Lowenstein was born in Ronnenberg, Germany in 1923 to cattle dealer Siegfried Seligmann and his wife Alma. Siegfried was sent to Buchenwald during…
34. Babette and Justin Isner letter
Document | Accession Number: 1999.112.1
Date:
1939 June 23
…The cataloging of this collection has been supported by a grant from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.…
35. Three drawings created by an 11 year old girl about her trip on the ill-fated voyage of the MS St. Louis
1991.164.117 front
Object | Accession Number: 1991.164.117
Date:
creation: 1939 August
depiction: 1939 May 13-1939 August
Artwork Title:
Journey of the M.S. St. Louis
…Liesl Joseph was born in Rheydt, Germany, on June 17,1928, the only child of Josef, born November 9, 1882, in Altenbamberg, and Lilly Salmon Joseph…
36. Blum family collection
Document | Accession Number: 2008.309.1
Date:
issue: 1938-1947
… related to immigration efforts; and photographs taken aboard the MS St. Louis. Richard and Betty left Germany on the MS St. Louis in May 1939 and…
37. Herman Löwenberg family papers
2001.177 Box 1 Folder 3 Image 7
Document | Accession Number: 2001.177
Date:
inclusive: 1926-1965
… in February 1937, bypassing the quota system by exchanging properties with a couple in Portland, Oregon who wanted to move to Germany. The Löwenbergs…
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 … the United States, the efforts of their family members to emigrate from Germany as well, and their efforts to recover or receive compensation for assets…
38. Eugen and Helene Cohn papers
1998.A.0040.2 Box 1 Folder 2 Image 12
Document | Accession Number: 1998.A.0040.2
Date:
inclusive: 1939-1971
…Helene Mashan Cohn (1883-1971) was born in Königs-Wusterhausen Germany. She married Eugen Cohn in Berlin in 1910, and their son Gunter was born in…
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 … note Eugen Cohn (1884-1953) was born in Berlin, Germany. He married Helene Mashan Cohn in 1910. The couple attempted to immigrate to Cuba aboard the MS…
39. Schönberger family papers
1988.108.192 Book Enclosure 2 Image 15
Document | Accession Number: 1988.108.192
Date:
inclusive: 1887-1967
…The cataloging of this collection has been supported by a grant from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.…
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 …--France. World War, 1939-1945--Jews--Rescue. Jews--Hungary-- Sárvár. Jews--Germany--Frankfurt am Main. Jewish families--Austria--Vienna. Austria--Emigration…
40. Floral evening dress with purple slip worn to the Celebration Ball on the ill-fated voyage of the MS St. Louis
2003.58.2_a front
Object | Accession Number: 2003.58.2 a-b
Date:
use: 1939 June 13
…Liesl Joseph was born in Rheydt, Germany, on June 17,1928, the only child of Josef, born November 9, 1882, in Altenbamberg, and Lilly Salmon Joseph…