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1. 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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2. Oral history interview with M.M.2 Anonymous
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1997.A.0441.133 | RG Number: RG-50.462.0133
Date:
interview: 1981 December 10
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… arriving in the United States in 1939, passing through France and Cuba (1938) on the way.…
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 … United States, but was not. They finally procured a visa to Cuba. At the end of 1938 they travelled to Cuba, via France. They lived in Havana for a year…
3. Oral history interview with Solomon Slucki
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.1455 | RG Number: RG-50.477.1455
Date:
interview: 1983 April 13
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… in September 1943; escaping in 1944 to Cuba, where they stayed until 1946; immigrating to the United States; reuniting with their son; and moving to…
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 … when we came to Cuba 13 he wrote to us letter that hes going to birthday party 14 for little girl which was born in France and everybody 15 will speak…
4. Oral history interview with Liane Reif-Lehrer
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1989.A.0347 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0186
Date:
interview: 1989 October 24
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… brother and mother to Hamburg, Germany in 1939 to board the St. Louis, which was bound for Cuba; arriving in Cuba and having to return to Europe, where they…
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 … anything else from from the ship. But uh...I mean, I know that the ship, of course, came to Cuba and we were not allowed in. Uh, and my brother tells me that…
5. 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…
6. Oral history interview with John Wahl
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.1281 | RG Number: RG-50.477.1281
Date:
interview: 1986 July 31
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Jewish refugees--Cuba.…
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 … This was to get the Cuban visa MR. WAHL No. had to put the deposit in Cuba. The visa got for free. Only the transportation had to get. Three days later…
7. Oral history interview with David Dattner
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1990.338.63 | RG Number: RG-50.037.0063
Date:
interview: 1990 November 15
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… going into hiding in the rural area outside Zywiec; the deportation and deaths of his mother and sister, Hilde; the end of the war; going to Cuba, then…
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 … the travel business. So he helped us, and we got to Cuba. https://collections.ushmm.org Contact reference@ushmm.org for further information about this…
8. Papers regarding refugees to Cuba
Document | Accession Number: 2004.638
Date:
inclusive: circa 1957-2004
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…Papers regarding refugees to Cuba…
9. 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…
10. Hessy Levinsons Taft collection
Document | Accession Number: 1990.32 | RG Number: RG-10.395
Date:
inclusive: 1931-1980
…Cuba--Emigration and immigration--History--20th century.…
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 …&w, n.d. Hessy Levinsons father. Photograph was cut from a Cuban visa. 11. 1 photoprint: b&w, n.d. Cuba. Hessy Levinsons. 12. 1 photoprint: b&w, n…
11. Robert Kaldeck papers
Document | Accession Number: 2018.125.2
Date:
inclusive: 1929-1984
… other Austrians boarded the SS Orizaba to Mexico and Cuba, but despite having valid paperwork, they were denied entry into Mexico. Future Cuban president…
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 … of entry into the United States and Mexico; his stay in Havana, Cuba, where he was given refuge after meeting with Cuban leader, Fulgencio Batista in…
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12. 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
Special Collection:
Save Their Stories
… released in December. Carl, Georg, and Fritz Hilb (b.1919 in Ulm), Hilde’s brother, booked passage on the MS St. Louis and left for Havana, Cuba, on May 13…
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 … Havana, Cuba, on May 13, 1939, with 937 passengers. During the voyage, Carl wrote nearly daily letters to Hilde as well as others in Germany and kept a…
13. Stephen J. Fraenkel papers
2017.556.1 Box 1 Folder 5 Image 6
Document | Accession Number: 2017.556.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1830-2016
bulk: 1937-1948
… his trip to Cuba in April 1941 in order to re-enter the United States on a Cuban visa. Documents regarding Max include Stephen trying to clarify Max…
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 … his trip to Cuba in April 1941 in order to re-enter the United States on a Cuban visa. Documents regarding Max include Stephen trying to clarify Max…
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14. Eugen and Helene Cohn papers
1998.A.0040.2 Box 1 Folder 2 Image 12
Document | Accession Number: 1998.A.0040.2
Date:
inclusive: 1939-1971
… Berlin in 1911. Gunter immigrated to Cuba in early 1939. His parents tried to join them aboard the MS St. Louis in May 1939, but the ship was returned to…
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 …, their efforts to gather the necessary documentation to emigrate to Cuba via Portugal, and their departure for Cuba aboard the SS Nyassa. Languages: French…
15. "Memoirs of my Life"
Document | Accession Number: 2012.395.1
Date:
inclusive: 1988
… Belgium to southern France in 1940 and their immigration to Cuba, experiences in Cuba during the war years, their life in New York following the war, Suskin…
16. Henry Blumenstein family papers
2000.388.1 Box 1 Folder 35 Image 153
Document | Accession Number: 2000.388.1
Date:
inclusive: 1916-1994
… following Kristallnacht and, upon his release, emigrated via Venezuela to Cuba where he lived with his sister Fini Hillburn. Henry sailed to Cuba with his…
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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…
17. Oral history interview with Liesl Loeb
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1997.A.0441.392 | RG Number: RG-50.462.0392
Date:
interview: 1981 March 18
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… Havana, Cuba; spending 40 days at sea and the rescue efforts of the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee (JDC) and the countries that offered…
18. Hornstein family collection
Document | Accession Number: 2019.527.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1935-circa 2010
bulk: 1945-1968
…, Irving and his mother went to Wrocław, Poland. Otylia’s brother Aron Geitzholz immigrated to Cuba before the war, and she and her son immigrated there with…
19. Marcus family papers
Document | Accession Number: 2018.340.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1930-1998
bulk: 1939-1942
…. Later that year, with the help of their neighbor Bret Schneider, Erich, Phyllis, Heinrich and Lilo were able to escape to Cuba. The family stayed in Cuba…
20. Weidhorn family papers
Document | Accession Number: 2022.29.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1920-2006
undated: 
bulk: 1932-1948
… mother fled Paris in spring 1941 to Marseille. In July 1941 Manfred and Anne secured visas to go to Cuba. They arrived in Havana, Cuba via Bilbao, Spain…
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 … United States in 1939, and Manfred and his mother’s immigration to the United States via Cuba in 1941. Included are biographical and identification…
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