A group of Jewish refugees pose on the pier in the port of Lisbon before boarding the SS Serpa Pinto.

Photograph | Digitized | Photograph Number: 59617

Overview

Caption: A group of Jewish refugees pose on the pier in the port of Lisbon before boarding the SS Serpa Pinto.

Among those pictured is Madeleine Hecht Feher, center holding a bouquet of flowers, surrounded by her co-workers from the American Joint Distribtuion Committee. They came to wish her farewell before embarking. Also pictured is her brother, Thomas Hecht, the young boy in front. Pictured on the far left is Lolita Goldstein, a JDC worker.
Date: September 1941
Locale: Lisbon, Portugal
Photo Credit: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Milton Koch

Photo Source: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Copyright: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Provenance: Milton Koch

Source Record ID: Collections: 2003.285

Keyword: CHILDREN (4-12 YEARS) CHILDREN/YOUTH DEPARTURES EMIGRES/EMIGRATION/AID (PREWAR/WARTIME) GROUP PORTRAITS IMMIGRATION IMMIGRATION (TO USA) PORTS PORTS (LISBON) REFUGEES (JEWISH) SHIPS SHIPS (SERPA PINTO) WOMEN
Photo Designation: JEWISH REFUGEES: SEARCH FOR SAFE HAVENS (1933-1945) -- Emigration/Refugee Assistance -- In Portugal -- 1941