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1. Jacobson family papers
1995.A.0196.2 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 13
Document | Accession Number: 1995.A.0196.2
Date:
inclusive: 1938-1989
…’s half-brother, Thomas Michel was born in 1938. During Kristallnacht Rudolph’s stepfather was arrested and sent to Dachau. He was released only after…
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 … the voyage of the MS St. Louis; a photocopy of a letter Erich Jacobson wrote to his family from Dachau concentration camp in 1938; a newspaper clipping…
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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
… November 12, 1938, Albert Schwager was deported to Dachau concentration camp in Germany. At some point, Albert was released from Dachau, likely under the…
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 … Schwager (1920-1993), Erich Schwager (1924-1940), and Hildegard Schwager (1927- 1942). On November 12, 1938, Albert Schwager was deported to Dachau…
3. Harry Ehrismann papers
Document | Accession Number: 1998.46
Date:
inclusive: 1939-1940
… the German occupiers to perform “defense work” and was sent to a work camp at Karlsfeld, a subcamp of Dachau and part of BMW’s München-Allach Werk 2…
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 … at Karlsfeld, a subcamp of Dachau and part of BMW’s München-Allach Werk 2. Harry worked in the administration of the stock rooms and was able to move…
4. Ruth Loeb Forrest papers
Document | Accession Number: 2000.333
Date:
creation: 1918-1945
…, Leopold, his father, and other men in the family were arrested and sent to Dachau concentration camp. Leopold was released after six weeks and immediately…
5. Three hangers for a wardrobe trunk used by German Jewish refugees on the MS St. Louis
1998.65.1_i front
Object | Accession Number: 1998.65.1 g-i
Date:
use: 1939 May-1940 April
… pogrom occurred. Egon’s father Paul was arrested and sent to Dachau concentration camp. On November 20, Erna received a letter from him with this news. He…
6. Maier family papers
2004.515.1 Box 1 Folder 3 Image 3
Document | Accession Number: 2004.515.1
Date:
inclusive: 1939
… day of Kristallnacht, Ludwig Maier was rounded up and sent to Dachau concentration camp. That evening, while Freya and Sonja were at home, the house was…
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 … sent to Dachau concentration camp. That evening, while Freya and Sonja were at home, the house was raided by Nazis and household items were destroyed…
7. 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
… pogrom occurred. Egon’s father Paul was arrested and sent to Dachau concentration camp. On November 20, Erna received a letter from him with this news. He…
8. Ruth B. Mandel papers
1989.55.11 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 8
Document | Accession Number: 1989.55.11
Date:
inclusive: 1937-1947
… in Dachau during Kristallnacht, and Lea managed to secure his release by obtaining a visa for him to emigrate to Shanghai. In the meantime, Lea…
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 … in Vienna in 1938 to Mechel Blumenstock (b. 1902‐1975) and Lea Blumenstock (nee Schmelzer, 1914‐2005). Mechel was imprisoned in Dachau during…
9. Anne Löb Marx papers
1999.2.2 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 3
Document | Accession Number: 1999.2.2
Date:
inclusive: 1939
… Arthur Löb was deported to the Dachau concentration camp but was released under the condition that he left Germany. In January 1939, Arthur Löb along with…
10. Ruth Loeb Forrest papers
Document | Accession Number: 1999.6
Date:
inclusive: 1938-1939
…, Leopold, his father, and other men in the family were arrested and sent to Dachau concentration camp. Leopold was released after six weeks and immediately…
11. Elsa and Selmar Biener papers
Document | Accession Number: 2005.65.1
Date:
inclusive: 1927-1968
bulk: 1936-1941
…, and Eugen Biener at Dachau concentration camp. Frieda Friedler is also believed to have perished in the Holocaust. David Biener immigrated to Palestine.…
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 … Dachau concentration camp. Frieda Friedler is also believed to have perished in the Holocaust. David Biener immigrated to Palestine. Scope and content of…
12. Henry Blumenstein family papers
2000.388.1 Box 1 Folder 35 Image 153
Document | Accession Number: 2000.388.1
Date:
inclusive: 1916-1994
…). Franz was born in Navezamsky, Czechoslovakia, married Elsa in Austria, and operated a successful perfume business in Vienna. He was imprisoned in Dachau…
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 … Vienna. He was imprisoned in Dachau following Kristallnacht and, upon his release, emigrated via Venezuela to Cuba where he lived with his sister Fini…
13. 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
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… to the United States in May 1937. Carl and Georg were arrested during Kristallnacht in November 1938 and sent to Dachau concentration camp. They were…
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 … (Hilde, b. 1912 in Ulm) immigrated to the United States in May 1937. Carl and Georg were arrested during Kristallnacht in November 1938 and sent to Dachau…
14. 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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…'s father, a diabetic, was arrested that same evening and sent to Dachau. Though he was released four weeks later, he never fully recovered his health. In the…
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 …'s father, a diabetic, was arrested that same evening and sent to Dachau. Though he was released four weeks later, he never fully recovered his health. In the…
15. Berg and Hermanns families papers
1989.232.31 front
Document | Accession Number: 1989.232.31
Date:
inclusive: circa 1880-1957
… (1923-1944), born in Mönchengladbach. Julius was imprisoned in Dachau in September 1938, transferred to Buchenwald the following month, and released in…
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 … Mönchengladbach. Julius was imprisoned in Dachau in September 1938, transferred to Buchenwald the following month, and released in April 1939 on the condition that…
16. HIAS-JCA Emigration Association (HICEM), Paris (Fond 740)
Document | Accession Number: 2006.515.12 | RG Number: RG-11.001M.94
Date:
inclusive: 1906-1941
bulk: 1926-1941
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 … for them, and other questions, minutes of a session held with representatives of this union concerning help to the prisoners of Dachau, rules of…
17. Lövinsohn family papers
1997.120.11 Box 1 Folder 2 Image 13
Document | Accession Number: 1997.120.11
Date:
inclusive: 1933-1939
bulk: 1939
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 … the way, was tried and convicted as a war criminal by the tribunal in Dachau after the war. I sent in my testimony. The second time, I was beaten with a…
18. Letter from Sol Mayer in New York to Jules Kaufmann in Havana concerning the emigration of the Hermanns family from Germany.
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Photograph | Photograph Number: 31678
Date:
1939 April 19
…Julius Hermanns was a Jewish textile merchant in Moenchengladbach, Germany. He was arrested in September 1939, deported to Dachau and then…
19. Mechel Blumenstock holds his infant daughter, Ruth, on the deck of the MS St. Louis.
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Photograph | Photograph Number: 30628
Date:
1939 May 13 - 1939 June 17
…, November 9-10 1938, he was arrested and sent to the Dachau concentration camp. Lea managed to secure his release by obtaining a visa for him to immigrate to…
20. Ruth Blumenstock, as an infant, seated on a deck chair aboard the MS St. Louis.
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Photograph | Photograph Number: 30630
Date:
1939 May 13 - 1939 June 17
…, November 9-10 1938, he was arrested and sent to the Dachau concentration camp. Lea managed to secure his release by obtaining a visa for him to immigrate to…