Correspondence across the ocean
German-Jewish families separated by immigration restrictions
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"Meanwhile the new year has arrived. What will it bring?"
Columbus, Ohio/Mannheim
This letter was written by Otto Neubauer, who had recently arrived in America from Mannheim, to his father Maximilian and his brother Ernst back home. Since the rest of the family was unable to emigrate despite years of trying, Otto wrote them regularly. The rich exchange of letters between the members of the Neubauer family reflects, as in the case of many other German Jewish emigrants in the 1930s, deep longing and attempts to describe every aspect of the new life in America.
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Institution:
Leo Baeck Institute – New York | Berlin
Collection:
Otto Neubauer Collection, AR 25339
Original:
Box 1, folder 3
on the days before
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