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Ruth B. Mandel papers

Document | Accession Number: 1989.55.11

Date: 1937-1947 (inclusive)
Language: English
German
Spanish
Genre/Form: Photographs.
Extent: 3 folders
Credit Line: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Ruth B. Mandel

Document Creator: Ruth B. Mandel Ph.D.
Biography: Ruth B. Mandel was born in Vienna in 1938 to Mechel Blumenstock (b. 1902-1975) and Lea Blumenstock (nee Schmelzer, 1914-2005). Mechel was imprisoned in Dachau during Kristallnacht, and Lea managed to secure his release by obtaining a visa for him to emigrate to Shanghai. In the meantime, Lea's brother, Gabriel Schmelzer, who was living in New York, arranged for the family to receive Cuban visas and purchased three tickets for them on the MS St. Louis. After the ship was turned away from Cuba, the Blumenstocks sought refuge in England. The Blumenstocks stayed in England until immigrating to the United States in 1947.
System of Arrangement: The Ruth B. Mandel papers are arranged as two series: I. Biographical materials, 1939-1947, II. Photographs, 1937-1943
Topical Term: Jews--Austria--Vienna.
Jewish refugees--England.
World War, 1939-1945--Refugees--Great Britain.
Geographic Name: Vienna (Austria)
Leicester (England)
Spalding (England)
Austria--Emigration and immigration--20th century.
United States--Emigration and immigration--20th century.
Corporate Name: St. Louis (Ship)
Legal Status: Permanent Collection
Provenance: Ruth B. Mandel donated the Ruth B. Mandel papers to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 1989 and 2004. The accession previously cataloged as 2004.665.1 has been incorporated into this collection.
Funding Note: The cataloging of this collection has been supported by a grant from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.
Additional Accession Number: 2004.665.1
Conditions on Access: No restrictions on access
Conditions on Use: No restrictions on use
: Record last modified: 2017-10-11 08:02:39
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