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41. Morris Troper papers
1997.36.15 Box 1 Folder 16 Image 1
Document | Accession Number: 1997.36.15
Date:
inclusive: 1935-post 1962
…Morris Troper was born on November 18, 1892 in New York City. His father, Abraham, was born in Germany and immigrated to the United States as a young…
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 … father, Abraham, was born in Germany and immigrated to the United States as a young child while his mother, Rose, was born in Austria. Troper was the…
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42. 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
…Helene Mashan Cohn (1883-1971) was born in Königs-Wusterhausen Germany. She married Eugen Cohn in Berlin in 1910, and their son Gunter was born in…
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 … note Eugen Cohn (1884-1953) was born in Berlin, Germany. He married Helene Mashan Cohn in 1910. The couple attempted to immigrate to Cuba aboard the MS…
43. Oral history interview with Miriam Michaelis Skopf
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.494 | RG Number: RG-50.477.0494
Date:
interview: 1989 April 02
interview: 1989 November 16
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Miriam Michaelis Skopf, born in 1928, discusses her childhood in Dusseldorf, Germany; her education; her family life; her experiences during…
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 … was born in Germany, Dusseldorf, 1928. 9 00:01:24,820 --> 00:01:29,530 And how many children were in your family? 10 00:01:29,530 --> 00:01:31,377 Two…
44. Black headband embroidered MS St. Louis worn by a young girl on board the ship
2004.575.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 2004.575.2
Date:
use: 1939 May 13-1939 June 17
…Annette Virginia Metis (later Gallagher) was born on December 20, 1930, in Grunberg, Germany, to Felix and Lotte Metis. Felix (1989-1984) was born in…
45. Herman Löwenberg family papers
2001.177 Box 1 Folder 3 Image 7
Document | Accession Number: 2001.177
Date:
inclusive: 1926-1965
… in February 1937, bypassing the quota system by exchanging properties with a couple in Portland, Oregon who wanted to move to Germany. The Löwenbergs…
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 … the United States, the efforts of their family members to emigrate from Germany as well, and their efforts to recover or receive compensation for assets…
46. Oral history interview with Sol Messinger
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1990.338.69 | RG Number: RG-50.037.0069
Date:
interview: 1991 January 17
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Sol Messinger, born in June 1932, discusses growing up Jewish in Berlin, Germany; his father, who was a tailor; his parents’ fear after Hitler…
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 … well as most Jews in Germany, thought that this was a flash in the pan, that it would blow over and so on. But then soon after Hitler took power…
47. Fritz Buff papers
2007.121.1 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 2
Document | Accession Number: 2007.121.1
Date:
inclusive: 1939-1940
Special Collection:
Save Their Stories
…Fritz (now Fred) Buff (1921-2017) was the son of Julius and Emma Buff. He was born on July 26, 1921 in Krumbach, Germany, a small Bavarian town where…
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 …, Germany, his voyage aboard the MS St. Louis to Cuba in 1939, the ship’s forced return to Europe, his life as a refugee in Brussels, Belgium, and his…
48. Oral history interview with John Meyerstein
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2004.372 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0487
Date:
interview: 2004 July 01
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…John Meyerstein, born in 1935 in Halle an der Saale, Germany, describes his family; his father's arrest during Kristallnacht and imprisonment in…
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 … time. I currently live in Oakville, Ontario, which is about 20 miles west of Toronto. I was born in Halle, Germany, on the 21st of March, 1935. Q: Mm-hm…
49. MS St. Louis floor plan
1991.164.116 front
Object | Accession Number: 1991.164.116
Date:
received: approximately 1939
…Liesl Joseph was born in Rheydt, Germany, on June 17,1928, the only child of Josef, born November 9, 1882, in Altenbamberg, and Lilly Salmon Joseph…
50. Chinese export trade serving tray with a floral design acquired in Havana from a Jewish refugee on board the St. Louis
2009.363.2 top
Object | Accession Number: 2009.363.2
Date:
received: 1939 May 27-1939 June 02
… charity, passengers sold some of their belongings. The ship left Hamburg, Germany, for Cuba on May 13, 1939. On board were 937 passengers, nearly all Jewish…
51. 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…
52. Blum family collection
Document | Accession Number: 2008.309.1
Date:
issue: 1938-1947
… related to immigration efforts; and photographs taken aboard the MS St. Louis. Richard and Betty left Germany on the MS St. Louis in May 1939 and…
53. Jacobson family papers
1995.A.0196.2 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 13
Document | Accession Number: 1995.A.0196.2
Date:
inclusive: 1938-1989
…Rudolph Jacobson was born Rudolf Cohen in 1933 in Insterburg (East Prussia), Germany. His parents divorced the following year, and his mother…
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 ….2 Creator: Jacobson (Family : Bamberg, Germany) Extent: 0.5 linear foot (5 folders) Repository: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives, 100 Raoul…
54. Hess family papers
2000.130.2 Box 1 Folder 5 Image 34
Document | Accession Number: 2000.130.2
Date:
inclusive: circa 1915-1944
undated: 
Special Collection:
Save Their Stories
… camp during Kristallnacht in 1938. He was released four weeks later after promising to leave Germany. Vera and her family left for Cuba aboard the MS St…
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 … Accession number: 2000.130.2 Creator: Hess (Family : Berga, Germany) Extent: 0.5 linear feet (5 folders and 3 oversize folders) Repository: United States…
55. 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
…Liesl Loeb (née Joseph), born on June 17, 1928 in Rheydt, Rhineland, Germany, discusses her family and early life; effect of Kristallnacht; being a…
56. Oral history interview with Liesl Loeb
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1997.A.0441.65 | RG Number: RG-50.462.0065
Date:
interview: 1998 November 17
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Liesl Joseph Loeb, born on June 17, 1928 in Rheydt, Rhineland, Germany, describes being a passenger on the St. Louis along with her father, Josef…
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 …, and Loeb is L-O-E-B, like in Bob. I was born on June 17, 1928, in a small industrial town in the Rhineland, West Germany. And the town's name was, at…
57. Oral history interview with Sue Siegel
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.737 | RG Number: RG-50.477.0737
Date:
interview: 1990 April 01
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…The interview describes Ms. Siegel's childhood in Landau, Germany; her early experiences with antisemitism; and her immigration to the United States…
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 … school in France when I was 10, so my sister and I already had been alone for about a year in the family. He left Germany because he could no longer attend…
58. 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
…Betty Sklow (née Behrendt, 1880-1961) was born on October 30, 1880 in Magdeburg, Germany to Adolph and Rosa Jeanette Behrendt. Hermann Sklow (1870…
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 … on October 30, 1880 in Magdeburg, Germany to Adolph and Rosa Jeanette Behrendt. Hermann Sklow (1870-1938) was born on March 14, 1870 to Wolf and…
59. Three drawings created by an 11 year old girl about her trip on the ill-fated voyage of the MS St. Louis
1991.164.117 front
Object | Accession Number: 1991.164.117
Date:
creation: 1939 August
depiction: 1939 May 13-1939 August
Artwork Title:
Journey of the M.S. St. Louis
…Liesl Joseph was born in Rheydt, Germany, on June 17,1928, the only child of Josef, born November 9, 1882, in Altenbamberg, and Lilly Salmon Joseph…
60. Large black wardrobe trunk used by German Jewish refugees on the MS St. Louis
Object | Accession Number: 1998.65.1 a-f
Date:
use: 1939 May-1940 April
…Egon Josef Salmon was born on June 4, 1924, in Rheydt, Germany, to Paul and Erna Weinberg Salmon. Egon had a sister, Edith, born on August 24, 1933…