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From Adina Langer
Sarah describes how her parents emigrated to the United States aboard the General McRae in November 1949. -
From Adina Langer
Susan Berman discusses her uncle taking a boat out to try and see his family on the St. Louis while it was anchored in Miami. -
From Adina Langer
Susan Berman describes the kind of work her family did upon arriving in the United States, as well as what they did to try and bring over other family members still in… -
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From Adina Langer
Susan Berman discusses what her aunt told her about life aboard the St. Louis and how the crew treated the passengers. -
From Adina Langer
Susan discusses how her family members were able to board the St. Louis to try and flee Nazi Germany. -
From Adina Langer
Susan Berman discusses how her mother was able to be a part of the Kindertransport that sent Jewish children to Great Britain. -
From Adina Langer
Susan Berman discusses her family's reaction to the rise of Nazism and Adolf Hitler in Germany and if they wanted to leave the country or not. -
From Adina Langer
Susan Berman describes the captain of the St. Louis's appeal to nations to let them come to port to unload passengers. -
From Isabel Mann
Hershel Greenblat describes how many people living in displaced persons camps wished to immigrate to Israel in the years following World War II. -
From Adina Langer
Joanna Kimling Stubbs describes her German-American father Eugene Kimling's parenting style. -
From Adina Langer
Gitte Toben discusses how her first experiences in the United States differed from her expectations. -
From Adina Langer
David Jacobi explains his grandmother's decision to remain a German citizen after immigrating to the United States. -
David Jacobi: Americanization Classes
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David Jacobi: Americanization Classes
From Adina Langer
David Jacobi discusses how his German grandparents and father adjusted to life in the United States. -
From Adina Langer
David Jacobi describes the immigration history over centuries of his mother's European-Jewish family. -
From Adina Langer
Anna Ostergaard describes what the United States meant to her after she emigrated from Denmark in 1955.