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1. Elsa and Selmar Biener papers
Document | Accession Number: 2005.65.1
Date:
inclusive: 1927-1968
bulk: 1936-1941
… from Hamburg, Germany to Havana, Cuba aboard the MS St. Louis. After being denied entry to Cuba and the United States, they disembarked in England where…
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 …, Germany to Havana, Cuba aboard the MS St. Louis. After being denied entry to Cuba and the United States, they disembarked in England where they were…
2. Wolfgang Mueller papers
Document | Accession Number: 1989.133 | RG Number: RG-10.293
Date:
inclusive: 1937-1946
…Letter written on the forced departure of a family from Neuhaus, Germany (1937), letter requesting assistance to obtain a visa to Cuba (1941), and a…
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 ….ushmm.org 2 Paderborn, November 15, 1941 My dear Anna, We are delighted and pleased that mother's journey to Cuba is finally being scheduled. The local service…
3. Loeb family papers
1997.74.49 Box 1 Folder 2 Image 7
Document | Accession Number: 1997.74.49
Date:
inclusive: 1936-1939
… MS St. Louis. Prior to leaving for Cuba, Hans had an early Bar Mitzvah and the ceremony was conducted by a Rabbi in secret. The Loeb family stayed in a…
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 … the MS St. Louis. Prior to leaving for Cuba, Hans had an early Bar Mitzvah and the ceremony was conducted by a Rabbi in secret. The Loeb family stayed…
4. Hermann and Charlotte Sperling papers
Document | Accession Number: 2019.589.1
Date:
inclusive: 1916-1948
… November 1940 he was transferred to Gurs. He was released around March 1941 and sailed to Cuba by September 1941. While in Cuba Hermann joined the British…
5. Dr. George Mandl papers
Document | Accession Number: 2014.358.1
Date:
inclusive: 1926-1977
bulk: 1937-1945
…. He had been granted a permit to enter Cuba, crossed the border at Bardonecchia, Italy and entered France at Modane. Following his arrival in France, he…
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 … practice in Parma, Italy; emigration to Cuba in 1939; emigration to the United States in 1941; and establishment of his medical practice in the United States…
6. Lövinsohn family papers
1997.120.11 Box 1 Folder 2 Image 13
Document | Accession Number: 1997.120.11
Date:
inclusive: 1933-1939
bulk: 1939
…, Werner was arrested. Rita, who was living in the United States, assisted her father in emigrating from Germany to Cuba. While in Cuba Werner obtained…
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 … the MS St. Louis, a German passport, Cuban immigration cards, photographs taken aboard the MS St. Louis of Hella Roubicek and views of Cuba and…
7. 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
… entry to Cuba and the United States, Betty finally disembarked in the Netherlands. She stayed in Bussum, Netherlands with Leopold Rosenthal, the brother…
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 … that Hermann had committed suicide. In 1939 Betty obtained passage on the MS St. Louis. After the ship was denied entry to Cuba and the United States…
8. Hirschfeld family papers
2012.337.1 Box 6 Folder 1 Image 5
Document | Accession Number: 2012.337.1
Date:
inclusive: 1894-1970
… began making preparations to leave Germany. He obtained a visa to Cuba and arrived there on the MS Orinoco in 1939. His great aunt, Ernestine Schwartzburg…
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 … immigrating to Cuba and the United States in 1939, and his service in the United States Army during World War II. They also document Alfred and Maria’s wartime…
9. Feliz Sternberg Sorell documents
Document | Accession Number: 2002.448.1
Date:
inclusive: 1916-1961
… Cuba in 1942 via Lisbon, Portugal; dated 1916 to 1961.…
10. Poselstwo Rzeczpospolitej Polskiej w Hawanie (A. 62)
Document | Accession Number: 2011.185 | RG Number: RG-59.081
Date:
inclusive: 1935-1948
Alternate Title:
Polish Legation in Havana
Special Collection:
Claims Conference International Holocaust Documentation Archive
…), 1935-1946; as well as other records relating to applications for entry visas to Cuba, primarily from Polish Jews, 1946-1947.…
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 … visas to Cuba, primarily from Polish Jews, 1946- 1947. 3 System of Arrangement This collection is arranged alphabetically and chronologically. Indexing…
11. Markon family photograph collection
Document | Accession Number: 2013.500.1
Date:
inclusive: 1929-1945
… includes a photo of Katia Magid and Fanya Schuster (donor's aunts) in Cuba, where they went to wait for their visas to enter the United States, which took…
12. Arnold Mechur papers
Document | Accession Number: 2014.291.1
Date:
inclusive: 1927-1974
… a tailor. In 1940, Arnold escaped to Trieste and from there, to Cuba. In Cuba, he met and married Sara Schlee, originally of Debrecen, who was not…
13. Obersitzker family papers
Document | Accession Number: 2008.304.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1925-circa 1970
… Overs), was born in Berlin on 28 November 1930. They fled Berlin in December 1938 to Havana, Cuba, and immigrated to the United States in 1941. Charlotte…
14. Ellen Gale photograph collection
Document | Accession Number: 1991.184 | RG Number: RG-10.452
Date:
inclusive: 1937-1942
… relatives in Richmond, Virginia, they acquired passage on the ship Iberia, which traveled to Cuba. Unlike the fateful voyage of the St. Louis, which was the…
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 … Germany. They had relatives in Richmond, Virginia, and were able to acquire passage on the ship, Iberia, which traveled to Cuba. Unlike the fateful voyage…
15. Johnson family papers
2015.338.1 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 38
Document | Accession Number: 2015.338.1
Date:
inclusive: 1932-1946
… (Karolina) was born in 1933 in Köln. Hans fled Germany for Mexico, but ended up in Cuba. Six months later his wife and daughter followed. They immigrated to…
16. Hans and Sophie Bernhard papers
Document | Accession Number: 2004.321.1
Date:
1936-1961
… and during the Holocaust when they emigrated from Berlin, Germany, to Havana, Cuba, and later in the United States after the Holocaust.…
17. Wertheimer family papers
2003.90 Box 1 Folder 3 Image 5
Document | Accession Number: 2003.90
Date:
inclusive: 1891-1948
bulk: 1929-1942
… SS Magellanes bound for Havana, Cuba by way of Liverpool. Richard Wertheimer, Klara Wertheimer, and Johanna Deutsch arrived in Havana on November 29…
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 … Klara (Deutsch) Wertheimer of Vienna, Austria securing passage to Havana, Cuba and joining their daughter Greta in New York between 1941 and 1942. The…
18. Leica IIIa camera and brown leather case owned by a German Jewish refugee to Cuba
Object | Accession Number: 2004.321.4 a-b
Date:
emigration: 1939 March 28
manufacture: 1935-1939
…Leica IIIa camera and brown leather case owned by a German Jewish refugee to Cuba…
19. Weidhorn family papers
Document | Accession Number: 2022.29.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1920-2006
undated: 
bulk: 1932-1948
… mother fled Paris in spring 1941 to Marseille. In July 1941 Manfred and Anne secured visas to go to Cuba. They arrived in Havana, Cuba via Bilbao, Spain…
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 … United States in 1939, and Manfred and his mother’s immigration to the United States via Cuba in 1941. Included are biographical and identification…
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20. 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
Special Collection:
Save Their Stories
… released in December. Carl, Georg, and Fritz Hilb (b.1919 in Ulm), Hilde’s brother, booked passage on the MS St. Louis and left for Havana, Cuba, on May 13…
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 … Havana, Cuba, on May 13, 1939, with 937 passengers. During the voyage, Carl wrote nearly daily letters to Hilde as well as others in Germany and kept a…