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1. A group of passengers from the MS St. Louis arrive in France after the ship returned to Europe.
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Photograph | Photograph Number: 29273
Date:
July 1939
…A group of passengers from the MS St. Louis arrive in France after the ship returned to Europe.…
2. Babette and Justin Isner letter
Document | Accession Number: 1999.112.1
Date:
1939 June 23
… the MS St. Louis and their plans to find refuge in France.…
3. Karliner family papers
1999.3.32 Box 1 Folder 3 Image 9
Document | Accession Number: 1999.3.32
Date:
inclusive: circa 1909-1951
… disembarked in France in June 1939. Joseph, Martha, and Ilse were sent to Mirebeau, France. Walter, Herbert, and Ruth were placed in Villa Helvetia an Oeuvre de…
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 … Karliner family in Germany before World War II, aboard the MS St. Louis, in France while in hiding at Oeuvre de secours aux enfants (OSE) homes, and during…
4. Weissenberg-Köppell family photographs
Document | Accession Number: 2000.619.1
…, on the MS St. Louis for Cuba. After the ship was forced to return to Europe, the family was sent to France and rented an apartment in the home of…
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 …, the woman seated on right holds a baby in her lap, Paris, France, June 30, 1946. Inscribed in French: “Paris 30.6.46 Pour ma miée Judith tante Lola et…
5. 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
… Europe. The Cohns disembarked in France, but continued to pursue immigration to Cuba to rejoin their son. They finally sailed to Cuba via Portugal aboard…
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 … and certificates documenting the couple’s health and status as refugees and internees in France following their return to Europe aboard the MS St. Louis…
6. Oral history interview with Ernest Weil
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.588 | RG Number: RG-50.477.0588
Date:
interview: 1990 April 02
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… Cuba, being turned back and sent to a home for children in Enghein, France; and his parents' experiences in Gurs concentration camp in France, where his…
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 … were taken from Landau to Marinheim across the Rhine and then after kind of skipped sorre of the time then after the war was over with France they were…
7. 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
… not being allowed to disembark; the response from the United States; the return of the ship to Europe; disembarking in Belgium; fleeing to France…
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 … in Germany, in Hamburg, we got word that the passenger ships were going to split up among four countries-- England, Belgium, Holland, and France. And…
8. 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
… ended up in France; getting a visa to immigrate to the United States after staying in France for two-and-a-half years; traveling through Spain and leaving…
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 … is...is of course well-known, historically. And the ship was turned back, and we went to France. And that's when I start to have much more coherent…
9. Oral history interview with Henry Gallant
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2009.53 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0528
Date:
interview: 2009 May 11
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… small house in Le Mans, France and then moving to an unoccupied part of Nice, France once the war began; living in the attic of a Gentile home and having…
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 … -- four countries accepted the -- gave asylum to 200 and some of the passengers. And those four countries were, Belgium, Holland, France and England. Q: We…
10. Beatrice Maier papers
1995.A.0290 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 7
Document | Accession Number: 1995.A.0290
Date:
inclusive: 1939-1947
…. The first letter, addressed to "Else," was written aboard the MS St. Louis; the second was written after arrival in Mirebeau, France. The letters…
11. Oral history interview with Gerda Blachmann Wilchfort
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1989.A.0325 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0251
Date:
interview: 1989 July 03
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… United Jewish Appeal; crossing the Belgium border into France by foot but not finding a much better living situation; discovering a castle in the French…
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 … France and England. And uh I don't remember very well I was up on deck not near my parents. You know when you're sixteen you don't cling to your parents…
12. Siegfried and Alma Seligmann family papers
1991.153 Box 1 Folder 3 Image 5
Document | Accession Number: 1991.153
Date:
inclusive: 1938-1941
… camp at Les Milles, France. Alma and Ursula followed him to France to try to find him but were arrested in Paris and detained in the internment camp at…
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 … and brief stay in Belgium, internment in France, and immigration to the United States via Lisbon. Languages: German, French, Spanish, Portuguese…
13. 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
…. Louis in 1939. After the ship was denied entry in Cuba and returned to Europe, they disembarked in France. Vera and Ilse were sent to Villa Helvetia, an…
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 … Vera Hess’ voyage on the MS St. Louis, their disembarkation and experiences in France, and their eventual emigration to Cuba in 1941 and the United…
14. Köppel family papers
Document | Accession Number: 2005.1.1
Date:
inclusive: 1933-1939
…, on the MS St. Louis for Cuba. After the ship was forced to return to Europe, the family was sent to France and rented an apartment in the home of…
15. Portrait of a pipe smoking man interned at Gurs drawn by another inmate
2013.486.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 2013.486.2
Date:
creation: after 1940 May-before 1940 December
Artwork Title:
Portrait of Ernst Vendig, Gurs, 1940
…, Germany occupied Belgium. Ernst was deported to France and imprisoned in St. Cyprien and then Gurs internment camps. In 1941, Charlotte, the boys, and…
16. Herbert Siperstein papers
1999.152 Box 1 Folder 3 Image 2
Document | Accession Number: 1999.152
Date:
inclusive: 1936-1945
…. When the ship was returned to Europe, Siperstein and Pick disembarked in France and settled in Mirabeau. Pick’s other daughter, Helen Grossman, had…
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 ….S. St. Louis in May 1939 with her mother, Elisabeth (Elise) Pick. When the ship was returned to Europe, Siperstein and Pick disembarked in France and…
17. Oral history interview with Arno Motulsky
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2017.215.1 | RG Number: RG-50.977.0001
Date:
interview: 2013 April
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… alien; being sent to an internment camp in France; being taken to a camp near the border with Spain and the Mediterranean which had little food and a…
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 … to get re-elected. There was tremendous relief by the passengers that they did not have to go to Germany as went to Belgium, Holland, France and…
18. Child's depiction of an imagined aerial battle drawn by a German Jewish refugee
2013.486.15 front
Object | Accession Number: 2013.486.15
Date:
creation: 1944
Artwork Title:
Krieg Saust Durchs Land, 1944
Alternate Title:
War Rushes Through the Land
…, Germany occupied Belgium. Ernst was deported to France and imprisoned in St. Cyprien and then Gurs internment camps. In 1941, Charlotte, the boys, and…
19. Child's drawing of a large ocean liner by a German Jewish refugee
2013.486.12 front
Object | Accession Number: 2013.486.12
Date:
creation: 1945 April
Artwork Title:
Ship with Tugboat, Maur, Switzerland, April 1945
…, worked to resolve this emergency. As a result, Jewish aid organizations convinced four European governments, Belgium, Great Britain, France, and the…
20. Child's watercolor of a house near a road leading to the Alps by a young Jewish boy
2013.486.13 front
Object | Accession Number: 2013.486.13
Date:
creation: 1944 July 21
Artwork Title:
Our Swiss Home, Maur, Switzerland, July 21, 1944
…, worked to resolve this emergency. As a result, Jewish aid organizations convinced four European governments, Belgium, Great Britain, France, and the…
21. Child’s pencil sketch of 2 boys in beds listening to the radio by a German Jewish refugee
2013.486.10 front
Object | Accession Number: 2013.486.10
Date:
creation: approximately 1945
Artwork Title:
Wir Kommen
Alternate Title:
We are Coming
…, worked to resolve this emergency. As a result, Jewish aid organizations convinced four European governments, Belgium, Great Britain, France, and the…
22. Child's two sided drawing of a house and 4 watercolor studies by a German Jewish refugee
2013.486.14 front
Object | Accession Number: 2013.486.14
Date:
creation: approximately 1945
Artwork Title:
Laundry Day, Maur
…, worked to resolve this emergency. As a result, Jewish aid organizations convinced four European governments, Belgium, Great Britain, France, and the…
23. Child’s drawing of train tracks approaching a tunnel by a German Jewish refugee
2013.486.11 front
Object | Accession Number: 2013.486.11
Date:
creation: approximately 1944-1945
Artwork Title:
Train Tracks on a Curve
…, worked to resolve this emergency. As a result, Jewish aid organizations convinced four European governments, Belgium, Great Britain, France, and the…
24. Child's sketch of a man listening to a radio drawn by a young German Jewish refugee
2013.486.8 front
Object | Accession Number: 2013.486.8
Date:
creation: approximately 1944-1945
Artwork Title:
Lebend Wurden Aufgefunden
Alternate Title:
Were Found Alive
…, worked to resolve this emergency. As a result, Jewish aid organizations convinced four European governments, Belgium, Great Britain, France, and the…
25. Child's sketch of 2 boys parading with a Swiss flag by a German Jewish refugee
2013.486.5 front
Object | Accession Number: 2013.486.5
Date:
creation: 1944 December 17
Artwork Title:
Wir sind die jungen Schweizer
Alternate Title:
We are the young Swiss
…, worked to resolve this emergency. As a result, Jewish aid organizations convinced four European governments, Belgium, Great Britain, France, and the…
26. Child's watercolor of a house near a lake in the Alps by a German Jewish refugee
2013.486.6 front
Object | Accession Number: 2013.486.6
Date:
creation: 1944 April
Artwork Title:
Lakeside House, Maur, Switzerland, April 1944
…, worked to resolve this emergency. As a result, Jewish aid organizations convinced four European governments, Belgium, Great Britain, France, and the…
27. Child's drawing of 2 houses near the mountains by a German Jewish refugee
2013.486.7 front
Object | Accession Number: 2013.486.7
Date:
creation: 1944
Artwork Title:
Swiss cottages, 1944
…, worked to resolve this emergency. As a result, Jewish aid organizations convinced four European governments, Belgium, Great Britain, France, and the…
28. Child's drawing of a faraway house by a German Jewish refugee
2013.486.9 front
Object | Accession Number: 2013.486.9
Date:
creation: approximately 1944
Artwork Title:
Im Wald und auf der Heide da such ich meine Freude!
Alternate Title:
I Search for my Happiness in the Forest and on the Moor!
…, worked to resolve this emergency. As a result, Jewish aid organizations convinced four European governments, Belgium, Great Britain, France, and the…
29. German Jewish refugee child's still life of an apple, ashtray, and a smoking pipe
2013.486.3 front
Object | Accession Number: 2013.486.3
Date:
creation: 1944 December 04
Artwork Title:
Fruit, Pipe, and Ashtray, Maur, Switzerland, December 4, 1944
…, worked to resolve this emergency. As a result, Jewish aid organizations convinced four European governments, Belgium, Great Britain, France, and the…
30. Child's drawing of trees along the lake done by a German Jewish refugee
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Object | Accession Number: 2013.486.4
Date:
creation: 1945 July 08
Artwork Title:
View of the lake, Maur, Switzerland, July 8, 1945
…, worked to resolve this emergency. As a result, Jewish aid organizations convinced four European governments, Belgium, Great Britain, France, and the…
31. Child's collage of a man's face over New York City by a German Jewish refugee
2013.486.16 front
Object | Accession Number: 2013.486.16
Date:
creation: approximately 1946
Artwork Title:
In the New Country all the Best, Fredy
…, worked to resolve this emergency. As a result, Jewish aid organizations convinced four European governments, Belgium, Great Britain, France, and the…
32. Fred Vendig papers
1999.A.0089.1 Box 2 Folder 24 Image 5
Document | Accession Number: 1999.A.0089.1
Date:
inclusive: 1859-2002
…, worked to resolve this emergency. As a result, Jewish aid organizations convinced four European governments, Belgium, Great Britain, France, and the…
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 …. Ernst Vendig was arrested following the 1940 German invasion and interned in camps in France including St. Cyprien and Gurs. In 1941, Fred, Charlotte…
33. Black leather photo wallet used by a young German Jewish refugee
2013.486.17 front
Object | Accession Number: 2013.486.17
Date:
use: approximately 1939-approximately 1946
…, worked to resolve this emergency. As a result, Jewish aid organizations convinced four European governments, Belgium, Great Britain, France, and the…
34. Faux alligator photo wallet used by a young German Jewish refugee
2013.486.18 front
Object | Accession Number: 2013.486.18
Date:
use: approximately 1939-approximately 1946
…, worked to resolve this emergency. As a result, Jewish aid organizations convinced four European governments, Belgium, Great Britain, France, and the…
35. Book written by the Captain of the MS St. Louis and owned by a passenger and German Jewish refugee
Object | Accession Number: 1999.317.2
Date:
publication: 1949
Title:
Heimatlos auf hoher See
Alternate Title:
Homeless on the High Seas
…, worked to resolve this emergency. As a result, Jewish aid organizations convinced four European governments, Belgium, Great Britain, France, and the…
36. Ohringer and Weil families papers
2015.203.1 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 5
Document | Accession Number: 2015.203.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1917-1988
bulk: 1921-1957
undated: 
Special Collection:
Save Their Stories
… home and moved to Warsaw, Poland. They left Poland in 1939 and settled in Le Havre, France. In late 1939 Leon, who was already living in the United…
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 …, Lotte, and Regine were forced from their home and moved to Warsaw, Poland. They left Poland in 1939 and settled in Le Havre, France. In late 1939 Leon…
37. Oral history interview with Jules Wallerstein
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1989.346.181 | RG Number: RG-50.031.0181
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Marseilles (France)…
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 … interned in France; family transported in a cattle car, internment in Marseilles; family departs Casablanca on Portuguese ship to the US. The entire…
38. Berg and Hermanns families papers
1989.232.31 front
Document | Accession Number: 1989.232.31
Date:
inclusive: circa 1880-1957
… for a Cuban landing certificate for Julius. He sailed on the St. Louis, was returned to Europe, found temporary refuge in France, was arrested as an…
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 … Hilde behind. When the St. Louis was returned to Europe, Julius found temporary refuge in France until he was arrested as an enemy alien at the outbreak…
39. Schönberger family papers
1988.108.192 Book Enclosure 2 Image 15
Document | Accession Number: 1988.108.192
Date:
inclusive: 1887-1967
… internment camps in France including St. Cyprien, Gurs, and Les Milles. With his family’s help, he immigrated to the United States in October 1942 and changed…
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 … returned to Europe and disembarked in Belgium. He was arrested as an enemy alien in 1940 and sent to internment camps in France including St. Cyprien, Gurs…
40. Newsreel clips: Einstein speech; Emigration; Jewish refugees in England and Australia; Palestine
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Film | Accession Number: 1989.343.1 | RG Number: RG-60.0099 | Film ID: 144
Date:
Event: 1933-1938?
Duration:
00:03:10
Special Collection:
Steven Spielberg Film and Video Archive
…FRANCE…
41. Studio portrait of Alex Goldschmidt (b. 1879).
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Photograph | Photograph Number: 65464
Date:
Circa 1939
… disembarked in France.…
42. Studio portrait of Helmuth Goldschmidt (b. 1921).
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Photograph | Photograph Number: 65465
Date:
Circa 1939
…, he disembarked in France.…
43. War memories / by Walter Karliner.
Publication | Library Call Number: D804.48 K37 1997
Author/Creator:
Karliner, Walter
Published:
Westbrook, CT : [publisher not identified], [between 1997 and 2013]
Special Collection:
Claims Conference Holocaust Survivor Memoir Collection (United States Holocaust Memorial Museum)
Availability
…Jews--France--Biography.…
44. Alex's wake : a voyage of betrayal and a journey of remembrance / Martin Goldsmith.
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Publication | Library Call Number: DS135.F89 G65 2014
Author/Creator:
Goldsmith, Martin, 1952-
Published:
[Place of publication not identified] : Perseus Books Group, 2014
Boston, MA : Da Capo Press, a member of the Perseus Book Group, 2014
Availability
…Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--France.…
45. Alive by chance : memoir of a St. Louis passenger : by Liane Reif-Lehrer.
Publication | Library Call Number: DS135.A93 R453 2001
Author/Creator:
Reif-Lehrer, Liane, 1934-
Published:
2001?
Special Collection:
Claims Conference Holocaust Survivor Memoir Collection (United States Holocaust Memorial Museum)
Availability
…Jewish refugees--France--Biography.…
46. Keine Zuflucht, nirgends : die Konferenz von Évian und die Fahrt der St. Louis (1938/39) / herausgegeben von Eva Schöck-Quinteros, Matthias Loeber und Simon Rau ; unter Mitarbeit der Studierenden des Projektes "Aus den Akten auf die Bühne".
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Publication | Library Call Number: D804.6 .K44 2019
Published:
Bremen : Institut für Geschichtswissenschaft, Universität Bremen, 2019
©2019
Availability
…Evian Conference--(1938 :--Evian-les-Bains, France)--Sources.…
47. Walter K. Holocaust testimony (HVT-97) interviewed by Laurel Vlock,
Oral History | Fortunoff Collection ID: HVT-97
Author/Creator:
K., Walter, 1924-2013
Published:
Boston, Mass. : Holocaust Survivors Film Project, 1980
Special Collection:
Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies
…World War, 1939-1945--Underground movements--France.…
48. Liane R. Holocaust testimony (HVT-1213) interviewed by Samuel Kenner and Harriet Tarnor Wacks,
Oral History | Fortunoff Collection ID: HVT-1213
Author/Creator:
R., Liane, 1934-
Published:
Peabody, Mass. : Holocaust Center of the Jewish Federation of the North Shore, 1989
Special Collection:
Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies
…Limoges (France)…
49. Hans F. Holocaust testimony (HVT-4361) interviewed by Laurel Vlock,
Oral History | Fortunoff Collection ID: HVT-4361
Author/Creator:
F., Hans
Published:
New Haven, Conn. : Holocaust Survivors Film Project, 1980
Special Collection:
Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies
…Orphanages--France.…
50. Hans F. Holocaust testimony (HVT-1043) interviewed by Bernard Weinstein,
Oral History | Fortunoff Collection ID: HVT-1043
Author/Creator:
F., Hans, 1928-
Published:
Union, N.J. : Kean College Oral Testimonies Project, 1987
Special Collection:
Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies
…Orphanages--France.…