us-005578-irn723197-irn44710
type: RecordSet
archival history: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
has beginning date: 1938-01-01
has end date: 1984-12-31
has or had holder: us-005578
has or had identifier: 1
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has or had some members with language: deu
has or had some members with language: eng
has record set type: Item
identifier: irn44710
is or was included in: us-005578-irn723197
record resource extent: folder 1
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scope and content: Consists of correspondence, most of which was sent by Ludwig Sommer in Kassel, Germany, between 1938-1940, to his sister and brother-in-law, Kathi and Berthold Speier, who were then living in New York, NY. Ludwig Sommer was able to emigrate from Germany to Rhodesia. Also includes an article from a German newspaper, circa 1939, regarding Jewish emigration, and correspondence from the Justice Department and from HIAS in November 1944 informing Kathi Speier that her mother, Johanna Sommer, can be issued an American visa. International Tracing Service correspondence, included in the collection, Johanna Sommer was deported in 1942 and perished. Accretion: prewar photographs, including of emigration of family to New York in 1938; correspondence, most of which was sent by Ludwig Sommer from S. Rhodesia and Capetown, South Africa, addressed to Berthold Speir in New York.
title: Kathi Speier papers