George and Lillian Friedman Collection 1938-1983 bulk 1938-1941

Documents and correspondence related to the Friedmanns' emigration from Germany and Cuba via the famous S. S. St. Louis (they were the only family who disembarked in Cuba), as well as documents related to the freezing of their assets and Jewish forced contributions in Germany in 1939.Lillian née Bach and Georg Friedmann (later Friedman) married in 1930 and lived in Schwandorf, Bavaria, where they appear to have operated a clothing store. After the events of Kristallnacht Georg was temporarily sent to the Dachau camp, and Lillian and other family members were jailed for a short time. Afterwards, partially through the support of distant American relatives, they secured passage on the ship Orinoco, but decided to try to get a spot on the earlier S. S. St. Louis to Havana. Lillian and Georg Friedmann, along with four relatives, were the only passengers allowed to disembark from the ship S. S. St. Louis in Havana. Shortly thereafter they emigrated to the United States and settled in Louisville. Georg Friedmann died in 1950.An original finding aid for the collection is available in folder 1; individual folders also have short descriptive indexes.digitize