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German passport issued to Viennese Jews, Adolf [Aron] Aberbach and his wife, Anna.

Photograph | Photograph Number: 31692
German passport issued to Viennese Jews, Adolf [Aron] Aberbach and his wife, Anna.

German passport issued to Viennese Jews, Adolf [Aron] Aberbach and his wife, Anna.

Date
1939 May 03
Locale
Vienna, Austria
Variant Locale
Wien
Photo Designation
ANTISEMITISM - AUSTRIA 1933-45 -- Identification Papers/Name Changes
Photo Credit
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Julian Aberbach

About This Photograph

Biography
Adolf [Aron] Aberbach was born in 1878 in Bolechow [Ukraine]. His wife, Anna Aberbach was born in 1883 in Chorostkow [Ukraine]. They were living in Vienna at the time of the Anschluss. Their sons, Julian and Joachim, who were living in the United States, secured visas and entry tickets to Cuba for their parents . Adolf and Anna Aberbach sailed to Cuba aboard the St. Louis. While the ship was in Cuban waters, the two boys took a bus to Miami, from where they went to Cuba. In Cuba, they got ahold of a dinghy to float out to the ship. Denied entry into Cuba, the Aberbach parents disembarked in France. Julian flew to France in an attempt to and eventually succeeded in bringing his parents safely to the United States.

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Administrative History

Artifact Photographer
Max Reid

Rights and Restrictions

Photo Source
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Copyright: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Provenance: Julian Aberbach
Source Record ID: Collections: 1995.75.6
 
Record last modified: 2007-01-25 00:00:00
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