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The Leo Baeck Institute – New York | Berlin presents the year 1938 through the eyes of Jews, whose personal documents detail their experiences and the hardships they suffered as well as the growing tensions in Europe and diminishing hope for Jews in Germany and Austria.

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30

SUNDAY

To save his mother

The efforts of a desperate son

“I want to bring my mother to America and I cannot wait until the immigration quota is opened again. You will undoubtedly know that the emigration from Germany has been stopped on account of the exhausted quota. According to my information, there is a waiting time of about one year.”

CLEVELAND, OHIO/WASHINGTON D.C.

Thanks to the intervention of William E. Dodd, U.S. Ambassador to Germany from 1933 to 1937, Erich M. Lipmann managed to immigrate to the U.S. in 1936. By the time the 26-year-old made this impassioned plea to Dodd to help his mother, Martha Lipmann, leave Germany and join him in Cleveland, he had already spent two years in the US. The letter displayed here is but one in a long series of increasingly frantic attempts by Lippmann to save his mother. Over the course of several years, he tirelessly approached anyone who might be of help.


TAGS: ADVOCATES, CLEVELAND OH, EMIGRATION, FAMILY, FAMILY SEPARATION, IMMIGRATION, IMMIGRATION PROCEDURES, LETTER, OCTOBER 30, PROMINENT PEOPLE, REFUGEES, TRANSNATIONAL NETWORKS, VISA APPLICATION, WASHINGTON D.C.

SOURCE

Institution:

Leo Baeck Institute – New York | Berlin

Collection:

Martha Lipmann Collection, AR 6355

Original:

Box 1, folder 1

Source available in English

 

on the days before

October 29
The expulsion of Polish Jews
October 28
China as a place of refuge
October 27
Fired without pension

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