Salomon family papers

Hermann Salomon (b. 1881) was born in Posen, Poland to Adolf S. He went to school in Berlin to become a notary and married Edith Machnitzki (b. 1897), from Stolp, Germany, in 1917. They had two daughters, Marianne and Brigitte (b. 1922). Marianne immigrated to the United States in 1938, settled in Los Angeles near her aunt, Elsbeth (Else) Stern, and married U.S. Army Lieutenant Kurt Alder. Hermann, Edith, and Brigitte attempted to obtain visas from the United States and Cuba, and considered going through Chile, Portugal, and Spain to reach America. They successfully obtained visas and passed medical examination, but were eventually denied because of changes to immigration laws. They survived the Holocaust by going into hiding and concealing their Jewish identity.