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The Margaret Anne Goldsmith Hanaw collection contains correspondence between Lawrence B. Goldsmith Sr., various members of the Schiffman and Marx families living in Germany, and United States government officials. The correspondence relates to the families’ requests for assistance in immigrating to the United States from Nazi Germany in the form of signed affidavits of support and financial assistance. ...

Feliks Puterman (1910-1955, also referred to as Stefan Feliks Samuel Puterman) was born Samuel Puterman on 13 January 1910 in Mszczonów, Poland to Jakob Puterman (1885-1943) and Regina Puterman (b. 1886, née Pomeranzenbaum). He had two sisters, Irena Puterman (b. 1921, later Barbara Irene Sifneos), and Basia Puterman. The family lived in Poznań and Warsaw. Feliks pursued a career in art, and attended ...

The Pilpel Family papers consist of correspondence, photographs, and documents related to the family of Franz Josef and Marion (Stern) Pilpel (later Pell), their daughter Nina, and their son Ronald, chiefly related to the family's immigration from their native Austria to India, and their subsequent immigration to the United States. Includes personal and biographical documents, correspondence between ...

<p>Walter Simon (1908-1979) was born in Krefeld, North Rhine-Westphalia, the son of businessman Daniel Simon and his wife Amalie (nee Hartog). After training as a silk weaver and an internship in international banking at Westminster Bank in London, he joined his father's silk wholesale company E Blankenstein &amp; Co, Krefeld. His work as head of export involved frequent travelling to England, Belgium, ...

Mania Lichtenstein was born in Włodzimierz Wołyński, Poland (presently Volodymyr-Volynskyi, Ukraine) in 1923 to Gerszon and Gitel Tisch. She had two older sisters, Rivka and Nechama. The family remained in Włodzimierz Wołyński through the Soviet occupation of the city in 1939. With the German invasion in 1941 the family faced increasing persecution and in February 1942 were forced in to the first of ...

Rudolf Fellner (1913-2011) was born in Vienna, Austria to Eugen (1888-1942) and Stefanie (née Sohr, 1887-1974) Fellner. Eugen grew up in Vienna, and worked as an entertainer, singer, and magician for many years. He married Stefanie in 1912, and then worked in his father-in-law’s knitting and garment store. Rudolf was an only child, but spent a lot of time with his cousin, Fred Freiwirth, whose mother ...

Consists of photographs and copyprints (7) depicting the family of Emil and Bertha Forchheimer, originally of Coburg, Germany. Includes school photographs, family portraits, and honeymoon photographs, all taken prior to the family's eventual emigration to the United States in 1940.

<p>Edith Jayne was born in Vienna in 1936 to a Jewish father, Rudolf Kurcz(1904-1987) and Roman Catholic mother, Maria (née Rixner, 1905-1968). Rudolf Kurcz had a private medical practice in Vienna Maerzstrasse 84, where the family apartment was also located. Maria was raised as a Roman Catholic but in adult life was non-observant. She worked as a seamstress until she married in 1930. Edith had an ...

Birth certificate, passport, autograph book, newsletter, photograph, and other documents related to the immigration of Ella Spiegler (later Goldstein), who left Austria for the United States in 1939 as one of the fifty children sponsored by Gilbert and Eleanor Kraus. The Stammbuch is a booklet that was given to Ella before her departure from Vienna in 1939, and in which friends and relatives wrote ...

<p>Otto Schiff was born in Frankfurt am Main on 8 May 1875 to Philipp and Bertha (née Dreyfus) Schiff. He came from a distinguished family of bankers. Schiff arrived in London in 1896, where he established the stockbroking firm Bourke, Schiff &amp; Co. In 1901 he became a British subject. Schiff also devoted himself to charitable work on behalf of Jewish immigrants, working on the Jewish Board of Guardians ...

Ruth Kupperschlag (1925-2019) was born in Solingen, Germany on March 3, 1925 to Josef Kupperschlag (1888-1944) and Anna Kupperschlag (née Isaac, 1894-1944) who owned the Alsberg department store in Solingen. Their second daughter, Marion (1926-1976), was born on November 20, 1926. During Kristallnacht Josef was arrested. Soon after, Anna and Josef started to arrange for Ruth and Marion to leave Germany ...

Born 14 October 1914 in Berlin as Gerda Federmann, daughter of Eve nee Kroner and Paul Federmann. Gerda's parents divorced in 1926 and her mother re-married Max Liebert later that year. Gerda's father, Paul Federmann moved to Mannheim after the divorce but remained in close contact with his daughter in Berlin. Gerda finished school in early 1933 and intended to study dentistry but as antisemitism in ...