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1. Documents of Jewish communities, organizations and schools in Brazil
Document | Accession Number: 2017.341.1 | RG Number: RG-68.205M
Date:
inclusive: 1886-1978
…Documents of Jewish communities, organizations and schools in Brazil…
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 …Brazil 1 The Central Archives for the History of the Jewish People Jerusalem (CAHJP) BRAZIL DOCUMENTS OF JEWISH COMMUNITIES , ORGANIZATIONS AND…
2. Max and Mathilde Maier family papers
1998.A.0065 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 2
Document | Accession Number: 1998.A.0056
Date:
inclusive: 1866-1998
… 1938, Max and Mathilde Maier emigrated with Margarete Maier to Rolândia, Brazil where they had purchased some land in 1936, became farmers, and obtained…
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 … Max Maier’s World War I military service and the couple’s education, marriage, and emigration to Rolândia, Brazil. The papers also include a copy of…
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3. Rolnik family photograph collection
2016.508.1 Box 1 Folder 16 Image 25
Document | Accession Number: 2016.508.1
Date:
inclusive: 1918-1988
… Bolivia and then to Brazil. David’s mother and four of his siblings were killed at the Sobibór extermination camp in 1941. His father, Szyja, went to…
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 … camp, Brazil, and Israel; and theatre productions featuring Pinchas Rolnik in Włodawa and the Tempelhof displaced persons camp. Languages: Yiddish…
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4. 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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 … Bella’s experiences as they emigrated from Essen, Germany on the MS St. Louis 1939, their disembarkation in England, their immigration to Brazil, and…
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5. Adam and Roma Zandel papers
2005.545.1 Box 1 Folder 21 Image 1
Document | Accession Number: 2005.545.1
Date:
inclusive: 1906-1985
bulk: 1920-1946
… visa to Brazil, and traveled there in 1941. In March, 1943, he was able to immigrate to the United States and settled in New York. He soon met and…
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 … being granted visas to Brazil and later the United States. Roma escaped the Nazis by fleeing into Romania, before being granted visas to Brazil, then Cuba…
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6. Gaynor I. Jacobson papers
1991.A.0102 Box 1 Folder 9 Image 7
Document | Accession Number: 1991.A.0102 | RG Number: RG-34.001
Date:
inclusive: 1938-1989
… Czechoslovakia, an article by Chaim Lazdeiski on Jewish refugees in Brazil, and an outline of Tad Szulc’s proposed book about the roles of HIAS and Jacobson in…
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 … article by Chaim Lazdeiski on Jewish refugees in Brazil, and an outline of Tad Szulc’s proposed book about the roles of HIAS and Jacobson in rescuing…
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7. Kurc family papers
Document | Accession Number: 2024.45.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1910-1948
undated: 
bulk: 1940-1946
… Addy Kurc’s emigration from France to Brazil, Halina Eichenwald (née Kurc) and her husband Adam Eichenwald’s survival in Lwów, Poland (Lviv, Ukraine) and…
8. Elizabeth Margosches family papers
2002.436.1 Box 1 Folder 12 Image 35
Document | Accession Number: 2002.436.1
Date:
creation: 1888-2010
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… Hans, and a sister, Margarete. Kurt Reik married Charlotte (Mucky) Reif, emigrated to Brazil in 1938, had daughter Margarida in 1939, and died in 1942…
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 … States, and Brazil before, during, and after World War II. The papers are particularly strong in documenting Karl and Irene Margosches' efforts to leave…
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9. Jablow family papers
Document | Accession Number: 2011.442.1
Date:
inclusive: 1890-1975
… Paulo, Brazil in 1938 to their son, Reinhold Jablow (previously Jablonowski), who immigrated to the United States in 1936. Includes identity and…
10. Gumpert family correspondence
Document | Accession Number: 2013.461.1
Date:
inclusive: 1936-1941
… Germany. On April 19, 1936, Walter and Erna sailed on the SS Eubee to Rio De Janeiro, Brazil. On May 21, they arrived in Montevideo, Uruguay, where they…
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 …, Uruguay; Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; and New York City. Languages: German Administrative Information Access: There are no known restrictions on access to this…
11. Ginsberg family papers
Document | Accession Number: 2013.177.1
Date:
inclusive: 1939-1941
… Berlin on October 12, 1920) in Saint-Josse-ten-Noode near Brussels, Belgium. The couple escaped to Portugal in 1940 and later to Brazil.…
12. Sam Kornhauser papers
2005.538.1 Box 1 Folder 9 Image 6
Document | Accession Number: 2005.538.1
Date:
inclusive: 1930-1998
… England after the war. Stephen’s brother Chaim (Leon) Kornhauser survived Plaszow, was liberated at Dachau, moved to Sao Paulo, Brazil in 1952, and worked…
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 … Ament families who survived the Holocaust in Poland, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, and Belgium before immigrating to the United States and Brazil. Languages…
13. Renate Fleischer Fajer collection
Document | Accession Number: 2010.415.1
Date:
creation: 1915-1957
…. Kurt was a partner in an engineering company which produced greenhouses. Kurt’s sister, Paula Holzer, immigrated to Brazil in 1938. Kurt and Ilse…
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 … relatives in San Paulo, Brazil, circa 1940. 12. Photograph of Renate Fleischer, Sao Paulo, Brazil, circa 1956. 13. Photograph of Renate and Abram Fajer in…
14. Schwarz and Kovács families papers
Document | Accession Number: 2021.141.1
Date:
inclusive: 1923-1957
… Marseille. He also purchased a set of false papers. On October 20, 1940 the family sailed from Lisbon, Portugal to Rio de Janeiro, Brazil aboard the Paquete…
15. Israel Elefant family photograph collection
Document | Accession Number: 2000.475.1
Date:
creation: circa 1929-1946
undated: 
…Rio de Janeiro (Brazil)…
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 …, Poland in 1917, died in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil in 1999. 4. Photograph of Regina (Rifka) Elefant Gerszt and her husband Elek Gerszt, wearing swimsuits while…
16. Singer family papers
2018.489.1 Box 1 Folder 8 Image 23
Document | Accession Number: 2018.489.1
Date:
inclusive: 1891-1968
bulk: 1938-1948
… Cindy Peterman). Paul’s brother George, his wife Leopoldina (Polly), and their son Arrigo (Erich, 1924-2012) fled Austria for Brazil. Elsa’s brother…
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 …). Paul’s brother George, his wife Leopoldina (Polly), and their son Arrigo (Erich, 1924-2012) fled Austria for Brazil. Elsa’s brother Robert and his wife…