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1. 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…
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 … anything else from from the ship. But uh...I mean, I know that the ship, of course, came to Cuba and we were not allowed in. Uh, and my brother tells me that…
2. Wolfgang Mueller papers
Document | Accession Number: 1989.133 | RG Number: RG-10.293
Date:
inclusive: 1937-1946
…Letter written on the forced departure of a family from Neuhaus, Germany (1937), letter requesting assistance to obtain a visa to Cuba (1941), and a…
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 ….ushmm.org 2 Paderborn, November 15, 1941 My dear Anna, We are delighted and pleased that mother's journey to Cuba is finally being scheduled. The local service…
3. 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…
4. 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.…
5. Oral history interview with David Dattner
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1990.338.63 | RG Number: RG-50.037.0063
Date:
interview: 1990 November 15
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… going into hiding in the rural area outside Zywiec; the deportation and deaths of his mother and sister, Hilde; the end of the war; going to Cuba, then…
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 … the travel business. So he helped us, and we got to Cuba. https://collections.ushmm.org Contact reference@ushmm.org for further information about this…
6. Oral history interview with Hessy Levinsons Taft
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1990.350.1 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0230
Date:
interview: 1990 February 15
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… family to leave; her father securing visas for the family to travel to Cuba, where she and her sister began to attend a British school; immigrating to the…
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 … Consulate who would listen to him, also accept some money, and granted him visas to Cuba. Uh, we spent a relatively...my sister and I have relatively nice…
7. Oral history interview with Laura Margolis
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1990.422.1 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0149
Date:
interview: 1990 July 11
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… and going to Havana, Cuba, where she was in charge of sheltering and feeding Jewish refugees; her transfer to Shanghai, China in May 1941, where she…
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 …, and there was a very serious problem in Havana, Cuba. Refugees were beginning to flee from Germany and from other countries in Europe, and...uh...the…
8. MS St. Louis floor plan
1991.164.116 front
Object | Accession Number: 1991.164.116
Date:
received: approximately 1939
… Havana, Cuba. They left Hamburg on May 13, 1939, and arrived in Cuba on May 27. Nearly all of the 937 passengers were Jewish refugees hoping to escape from…
9. 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
… Havana, Cuba. They left Hamburg on May 13, 1939, and arrived in Cuba on May 27. Nearly all of the 937 passengers were Jewish refugees hoping to escape from…
10. Liesl Joseph Loeb papers
1991.164.118 Box 1 Folder 14 Image 8
Document | Accession Number: 1991.164.118
Date:
inclusive: 1938-1993
bulk: 1938-1945
… Havana, Cuba. They left Hamburg on May 13, 1939, and arrived in Cuba on May 27. Nearly all of the 937 passengers were Jewish refugees hoping to escape from…
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 … belongings shipped to Cuba. This series also includes Josef Joseph’s open letter to Joseph Goebbels as well as an appeal to the German Jewish immigrant…
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11. Ellen Gale photograph collection
Document | Accession Number: 1991.184 | RG Number: RG-10.452
Date:
inclusive: 1937-1942
… relatives in Richmond, Virginia, they acquired passage on the ship Iberia, which traveled to Cuba. Unlike the fateful voyage of the St. Louis, which was the…
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 … Germany. They had relatives in Richmond, Virginia, and were able to acquire passage on the ship, Iberia, which traveled to Cuba. Unlike the fateful voyage…
12. Ursula Traugott papers
1991.192 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 2
Document | Accession Number: 1991.192 | RG Number: RG-10.454
Date:
1939
…Cuba--Emigration and immigration--History--20th century.…
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 …--London. Geographic Names Germany--Emigration and immigration--History--1933-1945. Cuba--Emigration and immigration--History--20th century. Genres/Forms…
13. Ilse Dahl letter
Document | Accession Number: 1991.210
Date:
1939 May 16
… and describes the journey of the ship, "Flandre," to Cuba. It is entitled, "Die Cuba-Reise der 'Flandre,' am 16. Mai 1939."…
14. Oral history interview with Alma Goldberg
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1992.A.0125.34 | RG Number: RG-50.233.0034
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… with her family then Milan, Italy; going with her family to Cuba in 1948; attending business school and being a secretary, using six languages; living in…
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 … guess eight, I’m not sure. I have such a mixture in my head of Bucharest, Romania and ---Cuba. Q: Right. I can check it. A: Czernowitz and Cuba. Anyway, I…
15. Oral history interview with Andrew Steiner
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1992.A.0128.113 | RG Number: RG-50.165.0113
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… prevent the deportation of Slovak Jews; deciding to immigrate to the United States after the war; living in Cuba from 1948 through early 1950, waiting for…
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 … the state. He chose to go to America. From 1948 through early 1950 he was in Cuba because he had to wait for his visa to the United States. While in…
16. Oral History interview with Lilly Gottlieb
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1993.A.0088.34 | RG Number: RG-50.002.0034
Date:
interview: 1989 February 07
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… their escape was an adventure; leaving France for Casablanca, Morocco in 1942; traveling to Cuba via Jamaica in 1942; living in Cuba from 1942 to 1948…
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 … again, I mean, when we went to Cuba, 326 00:17:07,569 --> 00:17:09,099 the same thing happened again. 327 00:17:09,099 --> 00:17:12,480 People who could…
17. Aberbach family papers
1995.75.9 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 3
Document | Accession Number: 1995.75.9
Date:
inclusive: 1938-1939
… Cuba aboard the MS St. Louis. After the ship was denied entry to Cuba and the United States, the Aberbachs disembarked in France. On March 30, 1940, the…
18. Oral history interview with Tibor Vince
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1996.A.0112 | RG Number: RG-50.106.0021
Date:
interview: 1996 March 11
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Tibor Vince, born in 1910, describes his childhood near Budapest, Hungary; his medical studies in Italy; his escape to Cuba at the outbreak of World…
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 … 00:24:31,100 --> 00:24:33,730 At that time, was quite rampant. 526 00:24:33,730 --> 00:24:36,410 And that's how I got to Cuba. 527 00:24:36,410 --> 00…
19. Oral history interview with Goldie Gendelman
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1997.A.0425 | RG Number: RG-50.106.0074
Date:
interview: 1997 October 08
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…’s attempt to immigrate to the United States; how she and her family made it to Cuba and stayed there for 11 years; living in Regla, Cuba; her struggles to…
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 … household  Came to Cuba in 1937  Came to the United States in 1947 http://collections.ushmm.org Contact reference@ushmm.org for further information about…
20. Oral history interview with M.M.2 Anonymous
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1997.A.0441.133 | RG Number: RG-50.462.0133
Date:
interview: 1981 December 10
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… arriving in the United States in 1939, passing through France and Cuba (1938) on the way.…
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 … United States, but was not. They finally procured a visa to Cuba. At the end of 1938 they travelled to Cuba, via France. They lived in Havana for a year…