Rosenwald, Block, and Kupferschlag families papers

Fritz (Fred) Rosenwald (1907-1977) was born in Bünde, Germany to cigar factory owner Bendix Rosenwald (1862-1919) and Emma Weinberg Rosenwald (1869-1953) who lost their business under the National Socialist government. He immigrated to the United States in 1935 with the help of his father's cousins, William Rosenwald and Sophie Rosenwald Adler, son and sister respectively of Sears, Roebuck, and Co. part-owner, Julius Rosenwald. His mother immigrated in 1936, and his siblings Bertha, Hilde, and Käthe immigrated around the same time. Physician Gertrude Rosenwald (nee Gertrud Block) (1910-1960) immigrated from Westerkappeln in 1937 and married Fritz in Chicago shortly after. Fritz became an American citizen in December 1941 and Gertude in 1943. During the war, the couple worked to aid the immigrations of Fritz's aunt and uncle, Anna and Sally Kupferschlag via England, Gertrude's parents, Feodor and Bernhardine Block, and Gertrude's sister and her family, Hilde, Ewald, and Dan Rosenthal via Holland. Bernhardine Block died at Auschwitz in 1944. Gertrude's relatives from Cologne, Joseph and Adele Harth and Ida Block, died in Łódź in 1942-1943.