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1. Elizabeth Margosches family papers
2002.436.1 Box 1 Folder 12 Image 35
Document | Accession Number: 2002.436.1
Date:
creation: 1888-2010
Special Collection:
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… Czechoslovakia to England in 1939, worked in fashion and design, and married Karl Gerhard Margosches (1911-1993) in 1942. Karl was born in Brünn (Brno, Czech…
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 …, immigration files, restitution files, and subject files documenting the lives of the Margosches and Reik families in Czechoslovakia, France, England, the United…
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2. Oral history interview with Magda Weigl Heath
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2010.97.1 | RG Number: RG-50.626.0001
Date:
inclusive: 1938-2009
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… Vienna, Austria; how after the Anschluss, Magda was able to immigrate alone to England; her family returning to Czechoslovakia and what life was like for…
3. Magda Weigl Heath collection
Document | Accession Number: 2010.97 | RG Number: RG-10.503
Date:
inclusive: 1938-2009
… Breclav, and the family's immigration to Vienna. After the Anschluss, Magda was able to immigrate alone to England. Her family soon returned to…
4. Henry Knepler papers
2004.683.1 Box 3 Folder 12 Image 17
Document | Accession Number: 2004.683.1 | RG Number: RG-10.458
Date:
inclusive: 1850-2004
… Knepler traveled to England in February 1939 on a Kindertransport. He spent time in London and Portsmouth before being arrested as an enemy alien in May…
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 … relatives, their lives before the war in Vienna, where Hugo Knepler was in the music business, Henry’s travel to England via Kindertransport and subsequent…
5. Dora Pollak family correspondence
1989.289.1 Box 1 Folder 22 Image 9
Document | Accession Number: 1989.289.1
Date:
inclusive: 1907-1954
… war in India. Karl Taussig survived the war in Austria with his wife Annie, Richard Taussig survived the war in England with his wife Dora, and Ludwig…
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 … Czecholovakia, England, and Switzerland during and after the war. Wartime correspondence relates family news, documents efforts to emigrate from Czechoslovakia…
6. Schläfrig family papers
2014.538.1 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 2
Document | Accession Number: 2014.538.1
Date:
inclusive: 1924-1947
…). Marie studied art in Vienna, but after the German annexation of Austria in 1938, she immigrated to England. From there, she and her husband moved to the…
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 … Schläfrig who immigrated to England in 1938. The collection includes identification papers of Marie; a letter to Marie from David Broder following an…
7. Morgenstern and Merkur families papers
2017.101.1 Box 2 Folder 1 Image 39
Document | Accession Number: 2017.101.1
Date:
inclusive: 1913-1995
bulk: 1913-1949
Special Collection:
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… Morgenstern on a children’s transport (Kindertransport) in Vienna and she went to England. She lived with a foster family. During the war, she joined the Women…
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 … materials include identification papers of Regina Morgenstern, who took a Kindertransport from Vienna to England in 1938; letters from her parents Taube and…
8. Gans family papers
2012.478.3 Book Enclosure 5 Image 2
Document | Accession Number: 2012.478.3
Date:
inclusive: 1900-2004
bulk: 1938-1950
Special Collection:
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… secretly to the United States. After they left, Anita and Manfred began writing to each other. In July 1938, Manfred went to England and stayed with a…
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 … years later, in July 1938, Manfred went to England. He originally planned to go only for the summer, but as conditions worsened in Germany, his parents…
9. Joseph and Margaret Weiss family papers
1998.A.0297 Box 1 Folder 14 Image 28
Document | Accession Number: 1998.A.0297
Date:
inclusive: 1934-1978
… photographs documenting Joseph and Margaret Weiss’s immigration to the United States from Vienna via Czechoslovakia, France, and England in 1939 and their…
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 … via Czechoslovakia, France, and England in 1939 and their efforts to help their mothers emigrate from Prague and Vienna. Languages: German, Czech…
10. Eva Mándlová Roubíčková papers
1996.A.0383 Book Enclosure 1 Image 10
Document | Accession Number: 1996.A.0383
Date:
inclusive: 1938-1945
Special Collection:
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…). Richard attempted to obtain visas for both of their families, but he was only able to secure paperwork for himself. He left for England in 1939 and planned…
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 … visas for both of their families, but he was only able to secure paperwork for himself. He left for England in 1939 and planned to arrange for his family…
11. Dorothea Baumgart papers
1990.11.8 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 1
Document | Accession Number: 1990.11.8
Date:
inclusive: 1940-circa 1957
… some time in the Deggendorf displaced persons camp after the war before moving to England around 1946. Her daughter Hertha Baumgart moved to England in…
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 …, where she remained until its liberation in 1945. She spent some time in the Deggendorf displaced persons camp after the war before moving to England…
12. Kurt and Johanna Fish family papers
1996.28 Box 6 Folder 1 Image 1
Document | Accession Number: 1996.28
Date:
inclusive: 1936-1991
bulk: 1938-1945
… Vienna. In the spring of 1938, she and Kurt were forced out of school. Johanna, unable to immigrate to the United States, was able to escape to England by…
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 … school. Johanna, unable to immigrate to the United States, was able to escape to England by promising to train as a military nurse. She spent the war in…
13. Helen Kulka Fanta collection
2007.195.1 Box 1 Folder 3 Image 5
Document | Accession Number: 2007.195.1
Date:
inclusive: 1916-1997
Special Collection:
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… England to work as a nanny. Three years later, she was hired as a secretary by an export firm in Prague, whose English correspondence she handled. She…
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 … Jewish, the family was non‐observant. In 1930, Helen moved to England to work as a nanny. Three years later, she was hired as a secretary by an export…
14. Majerowicz family papers
1995.A.0151 Box 1 Folder 8 Image 1
Document | Accession Number: 1995.A.0151
Date:
inclusive: 1911-1991
… three were killed. Prior to the war, Irma and Ruth were able to escape into England. Irma acquired a work visa, and was employed as a domestic, while…
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 … England. Irma acquired a work visa, and was employed as a domestic, while Ruth left Germany via the Kindertransport. While living in England, Irma…
15. Ernest G. Heppner papers
Document | Accession Number: 1989.243.322 | RG Number: RG-10.236
Date:
inclusive: 1929-1980
… August, Hilda received a letter from Heinz and his wife, Alice, who had been able to immigrate to England. They also received letters from various family…
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 … killed in the Holocaust. Heppner's brother Henry (Heinz) Heppner went to England with his wife and son. Ernest Heppner joined the Shanghai Volunteer…
16. Dreier and Tarnowski families papers
1998.A.0205 Box 1 Folder 11 Image 2
Document | Accession Number: 1998.A.0205
Date:
inclusive: 1939-1944
… Max Dreier (1879-?) and Netty Fuchs Dreier (1889-1944). Martin moved to England in 1939 and immigrated to the United States in 1944 or 1946. Max and…
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 …). Netty Dreier’s brother and sister, Julius Fuchs and Sophie Fuchs Lowenthal, both moved to Chile. Martin Dreier moved to England in 1939 and immigrated…
17. Gerda Schild Haas papers
1989.048 Box 1 Folder 16 Image 20
Document | Accession Number: 1989.048 | RG Number: RG-02.016
Date:
inclusive: 1940-1946
…, and they moved to Munich. Siegfried left Germany for the Kitchener Camp in England with a group of Jewish refugees in 1939, and he immigrated to the…
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 … England with a group of Jewish refugees in 1939, and he immigrated to the United States in 1940. Gerda moved to Berlin in 1939 for nurse's training, met…
18. Emanuel and Louise Suessmann papers
1999.A.0040 Box 1 Folder 3 Image 5
Document | Accession Number: 1999.A.0040
Date:
inclusive: 1909-1990
… Sachsenhausen after Kristallnacht and immigrated to the United States via England in 1940. He was drafted by the United States military, trained at Camp Ritchie…
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 … and immigrated to the United States via England in 1940. He was drafted by the United States military and served in World War II in the Military…
19. Records of the Istanbul Office of the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee, 1937-1949
Document | Accession Number: 2016.146.1 | RG Number: RG-68.191M
Date:
inclusive: 1937-1949
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20. Irene and Henry Frank papers
2016.496.1 Box 1 Folder 6 Image 3
Document | Accession Number: 2016.496.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1930-1992
… and England declared war on Germany, leading the school to close after Irene’s first year. The increasing restrictions, antisemitism, and violence led…