Displaying: 1 5 of 5 matches for “SS and the holocaust”
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1. Eleanor and Gilbert Kraus One Couple, 50 Children
Americans Who Dared Eleanor and Gilbert Kraus One Couple, 50 Children In January 1939, the Jewish ... Vienna to choose the children and bring them to the United States to live with foster families. They ... the Krauses wave to the Statue of Liberty upon arrival in New York, June 1939. US Holocaust Memorial ... lists for US immigration visas, gathering the necessary paperwork and receiving visas would be much
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2. The United States Committee for the Care of European Children Getting Children to Safety
been imprisoned and many were later deported to Auschwitz-Birkenau and murdered in the Holocaust ... Portuguese passenger ship, the SS Mouzinho, and arrived in New York on September 2, 1941. Ruth was fostered ... board the SS Mouzinho which brought them to the United States, August 1941. US Holocaust Memorial Museum. ... and Portugal between 1940 and 1945. Emblem of the United States Committee for the Care of European
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3. Herta Griffel
her mother—she died after being deported to Nazi-occupied Poland—and was one of the only children in ... her Jewish elementary school class in Vienna to survive the Holocaust. Leaving Vienna Herta Griffel ... Austria (an event known as the Anschluss), subjecting Austrian Jews like Beila and Wolf Griffel and their ... the SS Excambion in December 1940. She was one of nine children traveling with a chaperone. All the
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4. Richard Schifter
Rotterdam on the SS Nieuw Amsterdam on December 8, 1938, and arrived in New York seven days later. He ... United States on his own., ca. 1938. US Holocaust Memorial Museum. Deciding to Leave Immigrating to the ... guaranteed that the immigrant would not become a financial burden (or “public charge”) and were ... World War I, tax documents, and all the other official documents the family needed to present at the US
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5. Kurt Maier
Unwanted: America, Auschwitz, and a Village Caught in Between, co-published by the US Holocaust Memorial ... family was already on the waiting list for American immigration visas. Some, like Kurt and his family ... succeeded in their quest and made it to the United States. Others ended up in Auschwitz. The Maier family in ... packed a few belongings. They were joined in the family living room by Charlotte’s mother and