Liesl Joseph Loeb collection

Identifier: irn74899
Language of Description: English
Level of Description: Collection
Source: EHRI Partner

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https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn74899

Acquisition

The collection was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 1991 and 2003 by Liesl Joseph Loeb.

Scope and Content

The collection consists of an MS St. Louis ship plan, a child's drawing, an evening dress, correspondence, documents, photographs, and printed materials relating to the experiences of Joseph and Lily Joseph and their daughter Liesl before the Holocaust, when they left Germany on the MS St. Louis, their arrival in England, and their immigration to the United States.

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MS St. Louis floor plan
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn4598
- English
- overall: Height: 33.000 inches (83.82 cm) | Width: 43.000 inches (109.22 cm)
- Updated 7 months ago
Original floor-plan for the ship, MS St. Louis acquired by Liesl Joseph and her family, who were passengers on the ill fated voyage of the ocean liner in the spring of 1939. Liesl, 11, and her parents, Josef and Lilly, left Germany soon after the Kristallnacht pogrom in November 1938. They departed on the Hamburg-Amerika luxury liner, MS St. Louis, sailing for Havana on May 13, 1939. The plan was to wait there for permission to enter the US. But Cuban authorities denied entry to all but 28 of the 937 passengers. Josef chaired the passenger committee that tried to find a safe harbor. Liesl r...
Three drawings created by an 11 year old girl about her trip on the ill-fated voyage of the MS St. Louis
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn4599
- English
- overall: Height: 11.000 inches (27.94 cm) | Width: 7.125 inches (18.098 cm)
- Updated 7 months ago
Trio of drawings on one sheet of paper created by 11 year old Liesl Joseph in August 1939 shortly after arriving in England following the forced return of the MS St. Louis from Cuba. One drawing depicts the ocean liner; one marks each location the ship passed; one depicts the cottage lent to her family by the Rowntree family in England. Liesl and her parents, Josef and Lilly, left Germany soon after the Kristallnacht pogrom in November 1938. They left on the Hamburg-Amerika luxury liner, MS St. Louis, sailing for Havana on May 13, 1939. The plan was to wait there for permission to enter the...
Floral evening dress with purple slip worn to the Celebration Ball on the ill-fated voyage of the MS St. Louis
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn512916
- English
- a: Height: 52.750 inches (133.985 cm) | Width: 13.500 inches (34.29 cm) b: Height: 50.500 inches (128.27 cm) | Width: 11.750 inches (29.845 cm)
- Updated 7 months ago
Evening gown worn by Lilly Joseph on board the MS St. Louis for the Celebration and Ball on June 13, 1939. She had the gown made for the voyage, and she wore it only once, for the Celebration held the evening the passengers learned that they did not have to return to Nazi Germany. During the Kristallnacht pogrom, November 9-10, 1938, vandals broke into the Joseph home in Rheydt, Germany. Lilly and her 10 year old daughter, Liesl, hid on the third floor and her husband Joseph was arrested. He was released on the condition that he leave the country. The family sailed on the Hamburg-Amerika lu...
Liesl Joseph Loeb papers
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn72801
- English
- 1938-1993
- box 1
- Updated 7 months ago
The Liesl Joseph Loeb papers consist of correspondence files, emigration and immigration files, MS St. Louis files, photographs, and printed materials documenting the Joseph family’s departure from Germany and voyage on the St. Louis, the Passenger Committee’s work to find refuge for the ship’s passengers, and the Joseph family’s arrival in England and immigration to the United States. Correspondence includes letters and postcard from Josef Josephs to his family while he was interned as an enemy alien as well as with fellow former passengers of the St. Louis, such as Herbert Manasse and Ern...

Liesl Joseph Loeb collection

Child Items

MS St. Louis floor plan

Three drawings created by an 11 year old girl about her trip on the ill-fated voyage of the MS St. Louis

Floral evening dress with purple slip worn to the Celebration Ball on the ill-fated voyage of the MS St. Louis

Liesl Joseph Loeb papers