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1. Young children stand in front of Dominican flags at a ceremony in their school in Sosua.
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Photograph | Photograph Number: 69004
Date:
Circa 1948 - 1949
…Young children stand in front of Dominican flags at a ceremony in their school in Sosua.…
2. Meyerstein and Echt families papers
Document | Accession Number: 2019.393.1
Date:
inclusive: 1930-2015
bulk: 1930-1983
… interned as an “enemy alien” in a camp with other refugees. In October 1940 Werner and Olga immigrated to the Dominican Republic and settled in Sosúa where…
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 … Sosúa, Dominican Republic in 1940, and his father’s immigration with his second wife Emma Marx to Sosúa in 1942. The collection also documents the…
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3. Hoffman family collection
Document | Accession Number: 2011.280.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1930-1955
… Hoffman, who emigrated from Poland to the Dominican Republic, and their children Leon Hoffman and Berte Hoffman, who were both born in the Dominican…
4. Greta and Fred Burg papers
2016.548.1 Box 1 Folder 6 Image 32
Document | Accession Number: 2016.548.1
Date:
inclusive: 1909-circa 1960
bulk: 1938-1948
… on a Kindertransport after the German annexation of Vienna in 1938. By 1940 Fred had immigrated to Sosúa, Dominican Republic. His father was deported…
5. Otto Papernik family papers
2013.204.1 Box 1 Folder 11 Image 3
Document | Accession Number: 2013.204.1
Date:
inclusive: 1924-1970
bulk: 1930-1951
… group of Americans visited the camp, on behalf of the organization seeking to bring Jewish refugees to the Dominican Republic. Papernik was selected for…
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 …, his escape to Luxembourg, and after 1940, to southern France, and eventually the Dominican Republic. Collection also contains documents related to…
6. Arzt family papers
Document | Accession Number: 2006.510.1
Date:
inclusive: 1850-1989
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… leave Germany. Hans, Lotte, and their daughters left for the Dominican Republic in October 1938. They immigrated to the United States in 1947. In 1933…
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 … and post-war experiences after they fled Germany for the Dominican Republic, Palestine, and Czechoslovakia. The collection also includes some…
7. Henry Blumenstein family papers
2000.388.1 Box 1 Folder 35 Image 153
Document | Accession Number: 2000.388.1
Date:
inclusive: 1916-1994
… visas for the Dominican Republic, where Franz had joined a Jewish agricultural colony in Sosúa, but they could not obtain exit visas from German‐ occupied…
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 … Blumenstein and Dijkstra families in Austria, the Netherlands, Cuba, and the Dominican Republic; and subject files including Franz Blumenstein’s date book…
8. Klaus Frank papers
Document | Accession Number: 1990.186 | RG Number: RG-10.475
Date:
inclusive: 1938-1948
… Copenhagen, obtained their release, possibly through a bribe. The family lived in Denmark for three months before immigrating to the Dominican Republic with…
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 … while working as a political cartoonist at the newspaper, La Nacion, in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. Languages: Czech, English, German, Polish, and…
9. Joseph and Margaret Weiss family papers
1998.A.0297 Box 1 Folder 14 Image 28
Document | Accession Number: 1998.A.0297
Date:
inclusive: 1934-1978
… emigrated to the Dominican Republic where he died of illness on September 28, 1942. Mathilde Goldstein’s niece, Bertha Reichmann (1897-1942), was deported…
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 … Theresienstadt on July 14, 1942, and to Treblinka on September 21, 1942, where she was killed. Joseph Weiss’s cousin Georg Weisz emigrated to the Dominican…
10. James G. McDonald collection
Document | Accession Number: 2004.220.1
Date:
inclusive: 1873-2010
…’s life and career, as well as photocopies and more recent material. Original material includes records related to the FPA, the Dominican Republic…
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 … includes records related to the FPA, the Dominican Republic Settlement Association (DORSA), the Anglo-American Committee of Inquiry on Jewish Problems in…
11. A Jewish refugee admires the view of the bay in Sosua.
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Photograph | Photograph Number: 37898
Date:
1941 - 1946
…The Sosua refugee settlement was an all-Jewish agrarian colony in the Dominican Republic. It was established in 1940 after the country's dictator…
12. Herbert Levi, manager of the general store in Sosua, paints a chair while his wife Kaethe peels an apple.
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Photograph | Photograph Number: 37895
Date:
1941 - 1946
…The Sosua refugee settlement was an all-Jewish agrarian colony in the Dominican Republic. It was established in 1940 after the country's dictator…
13. A Jewish refugee in Sosua works in a distillery.
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Photograph | Photograph Number: 37896
Date:
1941 - 1946
…The Sosua refugee settlement was an all-Jewish agrarian colony in the Dominican Republic. It was established in 1940 after the country's dictator…
14. Jewish refugees work in the fields in Sosua.
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Photograph | Photograph Number: 37897
Date:
1941 - 1946
…The Sosua refugee settlement was an all-Jewish agrarian colony in the Dominican Republic. It was established in 1940 after the country's dictator…
15. Group portrait of Jewish refugee preschoolers at the Christobal Colon school in Sosua. Behind them stands their teacher, Hella Blum.
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Photograph | Photograph Number: 37887
Date:
1945 - 1946
…, Edi Brinehalter. The Christobal Colon school was founded in 1941 by DORSA the Dominican Republic Settlement Association, for the children of Jewish…
16. Jewish refugees attend a seder in Santo Domingo.
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Photograph | Photograph Number: 99571
Date:
April 1946
… and arranged for Marek to leave for the Dominican Republic, where he was resettled in the Sosua agricultural refugee colony. Marek's wife, Zdenka, who…
17. Entrance to Marek Morsel's farm in the Sosua Jewish refugee colony.
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Photograph | Photograph Number: 99572
Date:
1939 - 1947
… and arranged for Marek to leave for the Dominican Republic, where he was resettled in the Sosua agricultural refugee colony. Marek's wife, Zdenka, who…
18. Jewish refugees play chess in a tournament at the Sosua refugee colony.
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Photograph | Photograph Number: 99569
Date:
1939 - 1947
… and arranged for Marek to leave for the Dominican Republic, where he was resettled in the Sosua agricultural refugee colony. Marek's wife, Zdenka, who…
19. Jewish refugees eat in the communal dining hall at the agricultural settlement in Sosua.
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Photograph | Photograph Number: 99570
Date:
1939 - 1947
… and arranged for Marek to leave for the Dominican Republic, where he was resettled in the Sosua agricultural refugee colony. Marek's wife, Zdenka, who…
20. Jewish refugees living in the Sosua refugee colony deliver milk and bananas in a horse-drawn wagon.
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Photograph | Photograph Number: 37891
Date:
1941 - 1946
…The Sosua refugee settlement was an all-Jewish agrarian colony in the Dominican Republic. It was established in 1940 after the country's dictator…