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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 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…
9. 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…
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. Hess family papers
2000.130.2 Box 1 Folder 5 Image 34
Document | Accession Number: 2000.130.2
Date:
inclusive: circa 1915-1944
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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…
12. 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…
13. 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…
14. 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…
15. 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…
16. Portrait of a pipe smoking man interned at Gurs drawn by another inmate
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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…
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. 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…
19. 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…
20. Child’s pencil sketch of 2 boys in beds listening to the radio by a German Jewish refugee
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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…