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1. Maier family papers
2004.515.1 Box 1 Folder 3 Image 3
Document | Accession Number: 2004.515.1
Date:
inclusive: 1939
…. Louis bound for Cuba. Members of the Maier family aboard the ship included David and Pauline Maier, Bertha Ackerman (Sonja’s great-aunt, b. January 27…
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 …. Eventually Ludwig Maier was released from Dachau. On May 13, 1939, the Maier family boarded the MS St. Louis bound for Cuba. Members of the Maier family aboard…
2. Lövinsohn family papers
1997.120.11 Box 1 Folder 2 Image 13
Document | Accession Number: 1997.120.11
Date:
inclusive: 1933-1939
bulk: 1939
…, Werner was arrested. Rita, who was living in the United States, assisted her father in emigrating from Germany to Cuba. While in Cuba Werner obtained…
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 … the MS St. Louis, a German passport, Cuban immigration cards, photographs taken aboard the MS St. Louis of Hella Roubicek and views of Cuba and…
3. 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…
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. Loeb family papers
1997.74.49 Box 1 Folder 2 Image 7
Document | Accession Number: 1997.74.49
Date:
inclusive: 1936-1939
… MS St. Louis. Prior to leaving for Cuba, Hans had an early Bar Mitzvah and the ceremony was conducted by a Rabbi in secret. The Loeb family stayed in a…
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 … the MS St. Louis. Prior to leaving for Cuba, Hans had an early Bar Mitzvah and the ceremony was conducted by a Rabbi in secret. The Loeb family stayed…
6. 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…
7. Wiera Pupko collection
Document | Accession Number: 2020.340.1
… come from Cuba to the United States.…
8. Evelyn Klein Altman papers
2010.336.1 Box 2 Folder 1 Image 11
Document | Accession Number: 2010.336.1
Date:
inclusive: 1939
…, or, like Hungary, were close allies. In 1939, the Kleins acquired entry visas and landing permits for Havana, Cuba, and purchased tickets for the…
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 … Miklos (Nicolaus) Klein and she and Evelyn adopted his last name. In 1939, the Klein family acquired entry visas and landing permits for Havana, Cuba, and…
9. 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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10. 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…
11. 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…
12. 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…
13. 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…
14. 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…
15. 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…
16. Yocheveta and James Malla papers
Document | Accession Number: 2019.237.1
…Contains photographs and documents related to Yocheveta (Zysberg) and James Malla and their families in Poland and Cuba.…
17. Frima Laub photographs
Document | Accession Number: 1990.127.7
Date:
inclusive: 1945-1949
… 1945. They immigrated to Cuba in 1948, and the United States in 1956. Frima married Herman Laub in 1960.…
18. Poselstwo Rzeczypospolitej Polskiej w Madrycie (A. 45)
Document | Accession Number: 2011.180 | RG Number: RG-59.079
Date:
inclusive: 1940-1943
Alternate Title:
Legation of the Republic of Poland In Madrid
Special Collection:
Claims Conference International Holocaust Documentation Archive
…Poland. Poselstwo (Cuba)…
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 …. System of Arrangement 3 This collection is arranged alphabetically. Indexing Terms Poland. Poselstwo (Cuba) Rzeczpospolita Polska (Government-in-exile…
19. 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…
20. Wertheimer family papers
2003.90 Box 1 Folder 3 Image 5
Document | Accession Number: 2003.90
Date:
inclusive: 1891-1948
bulk: 1929-1942
… SS Magellanes bound for Havana, Cuba by way of Liverpool. Richard Wertheimer, Klara Wertheimer, and Johanna Deutsch arrived in Havana on November 29…
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 … Klara (Deutsch) Wertheimer of Vienna, Austria securing passage to Havana, Cuba and joining their daughter Greta in New York between 1941 and 1942. The…