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You searched for: Subject Germany. Remove constraint Subject: Germany. Digital Availability Digitized Remove constraint Digital Availability: Digitized Dates 1939 Remove constraint Dates: 1939 Key Events Voyage of the St. Louis Remove constraint Key Events: Voyage of the St. Louis
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1. Aberbach family papers
1995.75.9 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 3
Document | Accession Number: 1995.75.9
Date:
inclusive: 1938-1939
…'s emmigration from Germany aboard the MS St. Louis.…
2. Albert and Theresia Schwager papers
2002.516.2 Box 1 Folder 2 Image 8
Document | Accession Number: 2002.516.2
Date:
inclusive: 1938-1939
…Albert Schwager (1885-1963) was born in August 20, 1885 in Kötzting, Germany to Isidor Isaak Schwager (1860-1927) and Anna Schwager (née Steindler…
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 … papers contain telegrams and correspondence relating to Albert and Theresia Schwager’s attempt to emigrate from Germany aboard the MS St. Louis. The…
3. Anne Löb Marx papers
1999.2.2 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 3
Document | Accession Number: 1999.2.2
Date:
inclusive: 1939
…Anne Marx (born Anneliese Löb) was born on October 20, 1930 to Arthur and Marie Löb (née Lehmann) in Rastatt, Germany. Anne and her brother Friedrich…
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 … housed in the donor files of the United State Holocaust Memorial Museum. 2 My brother Fred was born on March 7, 1925 in Rastatt, Germany. My father Arthur…
4. Beatrice Maier papers
1995.A.0290 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 7
Document | Accession Number: 1995.A.0290
Date:
inclusive: 1939-1947
… Staatsanwaltschaft in April 1947, in which he describes events he witnessed during Kristallnacht in Mühlheim, Germany, and identifying by name the perpetrators who…
5. Betty Sklow papers
1999.A.0269 Box 1 Folder 7 Image 3
Document | Accession Number: 1999.A.0269
Date:
inclusive: 1897-1949
bulk: 1939-1940
…Betty Sklow (née Behrendt, 1880-1961) was born on October 30, 1880 in Magdeburg, Germany to Adolph and Rosa Jeanette Behrendt. Hermann Sklow (1870…
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 … on October 30, 1880 in Magdeburg, Germany to Adolph and Rosa Jeanette Behrendt. Hermann Sklow (1870-1938) was born on March 14, 1870 to Wolf and…
6. Black headband embroidered MS St. Louis worn by a young girl on board the ship
2004.575.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 2004.575.2
Date:
use: 1939 May 13-1939 June 17
…Annette Virginia Metis (later Gallagher) was born on December 20, 1930, in Grunberg, Germany, to Felix and Lotte Metis. Felix (1989-1984) was born in…
7. Chinese export trade serving tray with a floral design acquired in Havana from a Jewish refugee on board the St. Louis
2009.363.1 top
Object | Accession Number: 2009.363.1
Date:
received: 1939 May 27-1939 June 02
… charity, passengers sold some of their belongings. The ship left Hamburg, Germany, for Cuba on May 13, 1939. On board were 937 passengers, nearly all Jewish…
8. Chinese export trade serving tray with a floral design acquired in Havana from a Jewish refugee on board the St. Louis
2009.363.2 top
Object | Accession Number: 2009.363.2
Date:
received: 1939 May 27-1939 June 02
… charity, passengers sold some of their belongings. The ship left Hamburg, Germany, for Cuba on May 13, 1939. On board were 937 passengers, nearly all Jewish…
9. Dingfelder and Wolff families papers
1998.69 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 20
Document | Accession Number: 1998.69
Date:
inclusive: circa 1920-1946
…Rudi Dingfelder (later Robert Felder, 1924-1986) was born on April 21, 1924 in Uehlfeld, Germany to Leopold Dingfelder (1886-1943) and Johanna…
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 … family before World War II in Plauen, Germany, the family aboard the MS St. Louis, a photograph of Rudi Dingfelder after liberation in 1945, a studio…
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  • Series 1: Photographs Approximate 1920-Approximate 1945
    • File 1: Dingfelder and Wolff families Approximate 1920-Approximate 1945
      • Pages: 5, 7
10. 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…
11. Dublon family papers
2000.106.2 Box 1 Folder 2 Image 1
Document | Accession Number: 2000.106.2
Date:
inclusive: 1933-1939
Special Collection:
Save Their Stories
… lived in Erfurt, Germany where Willi owned Salamander Schuhe, a local shoe store and Erna was a housewife. In 1938 the family applied for visas to the…
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 …-1944?) had two daughters, Lore (1927-1994?) and Eva (1933-1944?). The family lived in Erfurt, Germany where Willi owned Salamander Schuhe, a local shoe…
12. 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…
13. Evelyn Klein Altman papers
2010.336.1 Box 2 Folder 1 Image 11
Document | Accession Number: 2010.336.1
Date:
inclusive: 1939
… Evelyn adopted his last name. By 1939, many Jews were seeking to escape countries and regions that, like Austria, were under the control of Nazi Germany…
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 … passengers in Hamburg, Germany and aboard the MS St. Louis, 1939. Languages: German, Spanish Administrative Information Access: Collection is open for use, but…
14. 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…
15. Fred Vendig papers
1999.A.0089.1 Box 2 Folder 24 Image 5
Document | Accession Number: 1999.A.0089.1
Date:
inclusive: 1859-2002
…Fritz Dieter Vendig (Fred, 1932-2001) was born in Kaiserslautern, Germany, to Charlotte (née Berstein, 1907-1988) and Ernst Vendig (1899-1956). Ernst…
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 … status through Germany, Belgium, France, and Switzerland, their release from Rivesaltes, and their immigration to the United States. The collection further…
16. Fritz Buff papers
2007.121.1 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 2
Document | Accession Number: 2007.121.1
Date:
inclusive: 1939-1940
Special Collection:
Save Their Stories
…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…
17. Gilt-plated demitasse spoon embossed with the MS St Louis
1992.22.1 front
Object | Accession Number: 1992.22.1
Date:
use: after 1925-before 1940
… 1945 and 1985 by Henry F. Kahn, who fled Nazi Germany in January 1939 for the United States.…
18. Goldstein family papers
1989.89 Box 1 Folder 2 Image 3
Document | Accession Number: 1989.89
Date:
inclusive: 1914-1982
…Herman Goldstein (1889-1943) was born on June 29, 1889 in Herford, Germany to Veterinarian and Eugenie Goldstein. He had two brothers, Arthur and…
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 …: Goldstein family (Berlin, Germany) Extent: 0.1 (4 folders, 1 oversized folder) Repository: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives, 100 Raoul…
19. Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society passenger cards of the MS St. Louis
1989.115 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 794
Document | Accession Number: 1989.115
Date:
inclusive: 1939
…. After the occupation of France by Nazi Germany in June 1940, the office moved to Marseille and an office was opened in Lisbon, Portugal. HIAS continued to…
20. 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…