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1. American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee records
Document | Accession Number: 1995.A.0116 | RG Number: RG-19.071
Date:
inclusive: 1945-1950
… 1914 to assist Jewish persons in Palestine during World War I. The Holocaust and World War II caused the JDC to ramp up its relief efforts. With the end…
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 … records were originally copied for the Liberation exhibition at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. Subsequently the American Jewish Joint…
2. HIAS-JCA Emigration Association (HICEM), Paris (Fond 740)
Document | Accession Number: 2006.515.12 | RG Number: RG-11.001M.94
Date:
inclusive: 1906-1941
bulk: 1926-1941
… operated in all countries sending or receiving Jewish emigrants. However, there were exceptions in the the USA, Germany, and Palestine, where the same…
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 … bound for Palestine, cooperation of the Association with the Jewish Agency of Palestine, and other questions. Also reference to Turkish Jews and…
3. Herbert Siperstein papers
1999.152 Box 1 Folder 3 Image 2
Document | Accession Number: 1999.152
Date:
inclusive: 1936-1945
…Herbert Siperstein was born in Vienna in 1923 to Moszka Siperstein (1884-1951) and Josefine Pick Siperstein (1896-1942). He emigrated to Palestine…
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 …. Languages: English, German, French Administrative Information Access: Collection is open for use, but is stored offsite. Please contact the…
4. 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
…The cataloging of this oral history interview has been supported by a grant from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.…
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 … what I’ve read. Q: Right. A: My understanding is that the Jewish relief agency in -- in the s -- in the United States was trying to negotiate -- Q…
5. Telegram sent by the passengers of the MS St. Louis to JDC European Director Morris Troper expressing their gratitude for his having found them places of refuge.
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Photograph | Photograph Number: 38566
Date:
1939 June 14
…Morris Carlton Troper (1892-1962), American Jewish lawyer and communal leader, who from 1938 to 1942 served as chief of European operations for the…
6. A group of officials and Belgian police waits on the pier in the port of Antwerp for the arrival of the MS St. Louis.
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Photograph | Photograph Number: 02954
Date:
1939 June 17
…Morris Carlton Troper (1892-1962), American Jewish lawyer and communal leader, who from 1938 to 1942 served as chief of European operations for the…
7. Thank you note to Morris Troper from the Captain of the St. Louis for his help in finding countries that would accept the passengers of the St. Louis.
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Photograph | Photograph Number: 01176
Date:
1939 June 18
…Morris Carlton Troper (1892-1962), American Jewish lawyer and communal leader, who from 1938 to 1942 served as chief of European operations for the…
8. Typewritten English translation of a message sent by the members of the MS St. Louis Passenger Committee to the Joint Distribution Committee in New York, thanking them for their effort in finding places of refuge for the Jews on board the SS St. Louis.
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Photograph | Photograph Number: 38559
Date:
June 1939
…Morris Carlton Troper (1892-1962), American Jewish lawyer and communal leader, who from 1938 to 1942 served as chief of European operations for the…
9. Mr. and Mrs. Morris Troper (center) pose with Jewish refugees on the deck of the MS St. Louis in the port of Antwerp.
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Photograph | Photograph Number: 01175A
Date:
1939 June 17
…Morris Carlton Troper (1892-1962), American Jewish lawyer and communal leader, who from 1938 to 1942 served as chief of European operations for the…
10. A letter addressed to the Tropers from an MS St. Louis passenger after his arrival in Rotterdam. In the letter the passenger inquires whether Morris Troper could arrange an entry visa into the Netherlands for his brother, Erich Warschawski.
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Photograph | Photograph Number: 02997
Date:
June 1939
…Morris Carlton Troper (1892-1962), American Jewish lawyer and communal leader, who from 1938 to 1942 served as chief of European operations for the…
11. Telegram sent to JDC European Director Morris Troper in Paris by JDC Chairman Paul Baerwald and Harold Linder in London thanking him for his hard work in the successful resolution of the MS St. Louis refugee crisis.
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Photograph | Photograph Number: 38562A
Date:
June 1939 - July 1939
…Morris Carlton Troper (1892-1962), American Jewish lawyer and communal leader, who from 1938 to 1942 served as chief of European operations for the…
12. Telegram sent to JDC European Director Morris Troper in Paris by JDC Chairman Paul Baerwald and Harold Linder in London thanking him for his hard work in the successful resolution of the MS St. Louis refugee crisis.
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Photograph | Photograph Number: 38562
Date:
1939 June 15
…Morris Carlton Troper (1892-1962), American Jewish lawyer and communal leader, who from 1938 to 1942 served as chief of European operations for the…
13. Telegram from JDC headquarters in New York to JDC European Director Morris Troper in Paris, informing him that emotions are running high in the U.S. about the fate of the MS St. Louis passengers; that people of influence insist that these refugees not be returned to Germany; and that the JDC is being held responsible for finding a solution to the crisis.
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Photograph | Photograph Number: 38565
Date:
1939 June 10
…Morris Carlton Troper (1892-1962), American Jewish lawyer and communal leader, who from 1938 to 1942 served as chief of European operations for the…
14. Telegram sent to Morris Troper, JDC European Director in Paris from Paul Baerwald, JDC Chairman in New York, commenting on the enormous public interest in the fate of the MS St. Louis refugees and bemoaning the criticism leveled at the JDC for not doing enough.
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Photograph | Photograph Number: 38567
Date:
1939 June 10
…Morris Carlton Troper (1892-1962), American Jewish lawyer and communal leader, who from 1938 to 1942 served as chief of European operations for the…
15. Telegram sent by Gustav Schroeder, captain of the MS St. Louis to JDC European Director Morris Troper in Paris thanking him for all he has done and informing him of the ship's arrival in Antwerp on Saturday at 2:00 pm.
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Photograph | Photograph Number: 38563
Date:
1939 June 16
…Morris Carlton Troper (1892-1962), American Jewish lawyer and communal leader, who from 1938 to 1942 served as chief of European operations for the…
16. Telegram sent by JDC European Director Morris Troper to JDC headquarters in London stating that he has permission to board the MS St. Louis at Flushing, about two hours before it lands in Antwerp, in order to prepare distribution lists for the passengers.
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Photograph | Photograph Number: 38561
Date:
1939 June 16
…Morris Carlton Troper (1892-1962), American Jewish lawyer and communal leader, who from 1938 to 1942 served as chief of European operations for the…
17. Letter written by Liesel Joseph to Mr. Troper while on board the MS St. Louis.
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Photograph | Photograph Number: 31684
Date:
1939 June 17
…Morris Carlton Troper (1892-1962), American Jewish lawyer and communal leader, who from 1938 to 1942 served as chief of European operations for the…
18. Telegram sent by Josef Joseph, head of the St. Louis Passenger Committee to Morris Troper of the JDC.
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Photograph | Photograph Number: 38572
Date:
1939 June 16
…Morris Carlton Troper (1892-1962), American Jewish lawyer and communal leader, who from 1938 to 1942 served as chief of European operations for the…
19. Confidential letter sent by JDC Chairman Paul Baerwald in London to JDC European Director Morris Troper in Paris regarding the MS St. Louis refugees.
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Photograph | Photograph Number: 38560
Date:
1939 June 08
…Morris Carlton Troper (1892-1962), American Jewish lawyer and communal leader, who from 1938 to 1942 served as chief of European operations for the…
20. Mr. and Mrs. Morris Troper meet with passengers on board the refugee ship MS St. Louis.
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Photograph | Photograph Number: 01175
Date:
1939 June 17
…Morris Carlton Troper (1892-1962), American Jewish lawyer and communal leader, who from 1938 to 1942 served as chief of European operations for the…