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Outtakes from Lizzy Kessler's comedy film "Familie Unterernährt isst Gansl Lustspiel in 2 akten" (RG-60.7029)

The Salomon family papers consists of correspondence and emigration and immigration files documenting Hermann, Edith, and Brigitte Salomon’s unsuccessful efforts to immigrate to the United States from Berlin. The collection also includes correspondence from Marianne Adler, Hermann and Edith’s daughter, and Elsbeth Stern, Hermann’s sister, documenting their efforts to bring their family to the Unites ...

Contains postcards received by Mignon Langnas (donor's mother), a Jewish nurse in Vienna, from Viennese Jews that had been deported to the Theresienstadt concentration camp; the majority of the correspondence consists of inscriptions written on pre-printed postcards stating that the writer received packages sent by Mignon. Mignon remained in Vienna and sent packages to over thirty families interned ...

The Herbert Siperstein papers consist of correspondence and photographs documenting the Pick family from Vienna, Josefine Siperstein and Elise Pick’s unsuccessful effort to emigrate aboard the S.S. St. Louis, family members’ efforts to help them immigrate to the United States, and efforts to locate Josefine Siperstein after her death at Auschwitz. Correspondence includes letters to Herbert Siperstein ...

Albert Schwager (1885-1963) was born in August 20, 1885 in Kötzting, Germany to Isidor Isaak Schwager (1860-1927) and Anna Schwager (née Steindler, 1858-1888). Albert’s siblings are Leopold Schwager (1884-1941), Fritz Schwager (1887-1976), and Anna Schwager (1888-1888). Before the war, Albert Schwager worked as a businessman. He married Theresia Schwarz (Resi, 1890-1979). She was born on May 10, 1890 ...

The Goldstein family papers, 1914-1982, contain photographic postcards of Herman Goldstein (1889-1943) serving as a German soldier in World War I; four photographs of Herman, Rita, and Heinz Goldstein (b. 1928) at a celebration aboard the MS St. Louis, 1939; a printed wedding invitation for Herman Goldstein and Rita Goldstein (née Grubner, 1893-1979) held on November 6, 1927 at the Lutzow Strasse Synagogue ...

Rudolf Wolf (1907-2005) was born in Frankfurt, Germany to Hermann (1877-1970) and Ella (born Gisella Moser, 1886-1972) Wolf. He had one brother, Ernst (b. 1912). His father Hermann served in the German Army during World War I, and worked as a draftsman. Rudolf studied law in Munich, but was kicked out for being Jewish. He then studied to become an architect. Facing increased Nazi persecution, the family ...

Roza Kwar was born on July 20, 1927, in Lwow, Poland (Lviv, Ukraine), to Benzion (Bentichek) and Ernestyna (Tinka) Hercer Kwar. Her father had four brothers and other relatives living in the United States. In 1938, Benzion’s brother Charles visited the family in Poland. He brought affidavits of support that were needed to apply for American immigration visas. When the family went to the embassy to ...

Describes the journey of the ship "St. Louis", aboard which more than 900 German Jews tried to escape to Cuba in spring 1939. Despite a previous agreement, Cuban authorities refused to accept the refugees, as did the U.S. government. Captain Gustav Schröder, who was ordered to return to Germany, managed to set his passengers ashore at Antwerp. One-fourth of them were able to travel to England, while ...

The Goldfarb family papers document the experiences of Polish-born Leopold Goldfarb, his Belgian-born wife Jenny, and their daughter Nina; as they sought to escape Belgium following the German invasion in 1940, and immigrate to the United States, by way of Portugal, Jamaica, and Cuba, following Jenny’s death in France. The papers contain identification and immigration documents, correspondence, including ...