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1. 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…
2. Robert Hesse papers
Document | Accession Number: 2011.392.1
Date:
inclusive: 1938-1940
…Robert Hesse was born on 26 May 1895 in Gardelegen, Germany. He completed his schooling in Gardelegen and then entered an apprenticeship with a silk…
3. 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…
4. 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…
5. 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…
6. 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…
7. 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…
8. Fritz Buff papers
2007.121.1 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 2
Document | Accession Number: 2007.121.1
Date:
inclusive: 1939-1940
Special Collection:
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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…
9. Weil family papers
Document | Accession Number: 2005.415.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1928-1981
…Annelise Franziska Weil (later Anne Wascou, 1921-2011) was born on 23 August 1921 in Karlsruhe, Germany to Elfriede (née Meyer, born in Mannheim…
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 … Accession number: 2005.415.1 Creator: Weil family, Mannheim, Germany. Extent: .5 linear feet (1 box) Repository: United States Holocaust Memorial…
10. Elsa and Selmar Biener papers
Document | Accession Number: 2005.65.1
Date:
inclusive: 1927-1968
bulk: 1936-1941
…Selmar Biener (1906-1988) was born on May 15, 1906 in Magdeburg, Germany to Philip Biener (b. 1870) and Regina Biener (née Sternberg, b. 1876). He…
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 … (1906-1988) was born on May 15, 1906 in Magdeburg, Germany to Philip Biener (b. 1870) and Regina Biener (née Sternberg, b. 1876). He had three brothers…
11. Köppel family papers
Document | Accession Number: 2005.1.1
Date:
inclusive: 1933-1939
…Judith Köppel (now Steel) was the daughter of Josef Köppel and Irmgard Weissenberg Köppel. She was born in 1938 in Berlin, Germany, where her…
12. 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…
13. Metis family papers
2004.575.1 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 7
Document | Accession Number: 2004.575.1
Date:
inclusive: 1939-1967
bulk: 1939
…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…
14. Maier family papers
2004.515.1 Box 1 Folder 3 Image 3
Document | Accession Number: 2004.515.1
Date:
inclusive: 1939
…Ludwig Maier was born in Malsch, Germany on August 19, 1901 to David (b. October 14, 1873) and Pauline Maier (Line Maier, b. December 7, 1880). In…
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 … experience aboard the MS St. Louis. Processing history: Katelynn Vance, April 2019 Biographical note Ludwig Maier was born in Malsch, Germany on August 19…
15. 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…
16. 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…
17. 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…
18. Ruth Loeb Forrest papers
Document | Accession Number: 2000.333
Date:
creation: 1918-1945
…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…
19. Selected records from the HAPAG-Reederei (HAPAG Shipping Company), Hamburg
Document | Accession Number: 2000.148 | RG Number: RG-14.103M
Date:
inclusive: 1938-1940
…Staatsarchiv Hamburg (Germany)…
20. 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…