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1. Horse-shaped metal pin made by a Jewish prisoner in Theresienstadt ghetto-labor camp
2006.363.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 2006.363.2
Date:
received: 1942 November 20-1945
… they flew to Cuba to await permission to enter the United States. After living there for two years, they were granted US visas and arrived in New York…
2. Miniature picture frame pendant made by a Jewish prisoner in Theresienstadt ghetto-labor camp
2006.363.4 front
Object | Accession Number: 2006.363.4
Date:
received: 1942 November 20-1945
… they flew to Cuba to await permission to enter the United States. After living there for two years, they were granted US visas and arrived in New York…
3. Metal flower pin made by a Jewish prisoner in Theresienstadt ghetto-labor camp
2006.363.3 front
Object | Accession Number: 2006.363.3
Date:
received: 1942 November 20-1945
… they flew to Cuba to await permission to enter the United States. After living there for two years, they were granted US visas and arrived in New York…
4. 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…
5. Golem pendant made by a Jewish prisoner in Theresienstadt ghetto-labor camp
2006.363.6 front
Object | Accession Number: 2006.363.6
Date:
received: 1942 November 20-1945
… they flew to Cuba to await permission to enter the United States. After living there for two years, they were granted US visas and arrived in New York…
6. 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…
7. 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…
8. Cut-out landscape scene made by a Jewish prisoner in Theresienstadt ghetto-labor camp
2006.363.5 front
Object | Accession Number: 2006.363.5
Date:
received: 1942 November 20-1945
… they flew to Cuba to await permission to enter the United States. After living there for two years, they were granted US visas and arrived in New York…
9. Metis family papers
2004.575.1 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 7
Document | Accession Number: 2004.575.1
Date:
inclusive: 1939-1967
bulk: 1939
…, and Lotte left Hamburg on board the luxury liner, MS St. Louis, for Havana, Cuba. Most of the other 937 passenger were also Jews fleeing Nazi…
10. Kurt Schwarz papers
2015.580.1 Box 1 Folder 4 Image 1
Document | Accession Number: 2015.580.1
Date:
inclusive: 1938-2001
bulk: 1938-1941
… unable to come to Ellis Island, where Schwarz was detained, due to his busy rehearsal schedule. As a result, Schwarz sailed to Cuba, where he lived for…
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 … documents related to the immigration of Kurt Schwarz, originally of Vienna, Austria, to the United States by way of Italy and Cuba, 1938‐1940; as well as…
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11. 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…
12. 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…
13. 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…
14. Round Star of David pendant made by a Jewish prisoner in Theresienstadt ghetto-labor camp
2006.363.7 front
Object | Accession Number: 2006.363.7
Date:
received: 1942 November 20-1945
… they flew to Cuba to await permission to enter the United States. After living there for two years, they were granted US visas and arrived in New York…
15. Feliz Sternberg Sorell documents
Document | Accession Number: 2002.448.1
Date:
inclusive: 1916-1961
… Cuba in 1942 via Lisbon, Portugal; dated 1916 to 1961.…
16. Reutlinger family papers
Document | Accession Number: 2010.135.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1940-circa 1943
…Collection of documents pertaining to Shlomo Reutlinger's family who escaped Pforzheim, Germany to Cuba. Shlomo was sent from Germany to Belgium and…
17. 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…
18. 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…
19. Wilhelm Fuchs papers
Document | Accession Number: 2019.583.1
Date:
inclusive: 1941-1943
… wives immigrated to the United States in December 1939 via Cuba. In 1941, Wilhelm and Katchen left Germany arriving in Cuba in November 1941. After…
20. 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…