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Newspaper advertisement searching for Elsbet Midas Gerst

This advertisement was placed in the German language newspaper Aufbau by Hilde Midas Dreifuss, who is the older sister of Elsbet in the hope the family could find out whether or not Elsbet and her husband Robert, who had been in hiding in Amsterdam, had been captured and deported to a concentration camp. It was later discovered that both she and her husband had been deported to Auschwitz, where he was murdered shortly after arrival. Elsbet was liberated from Auschwitz at the end of the war, rejoined in her family in New York and married her second husband with whom she shared a long and happy 46 year marriage.

The translation is as follows:

INTERNATIONAL SEARCH CENTER (in “Aufbau” newspaper)

(Top section lists the advertising rates)

Gerst, Elsbeth, maiden name Midas (born in 1916 in Fürth, Bavaria),
and Robert (Bob, born in 1910 in Nürnberg) last address: 4 Watteau Street, Amsterdam, probably deported in July 1942), ad placed by Hilde Dreifuss, maiden name Midas, 619 West 163^rd Street, New York 32, N.Y.

The End of One World and the Beginning of Another

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum’s Holocaust Survivors and Victims Resource Center

Auguste Mohr’s Passport
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The Mohr Family Immigration and The New York Times

Harry Rosenberg’s Passport
Harry (Hans) Rosenberg’s German passport includes a J identifying him as a Jew, a swastika-embossed cover and arrival stamps from the Haiti government. Also note each male was required to take on the additional name, Israel.

Additional Rosenberg Family Documents

Bill Mohr’s Indentity Card

Bill’s German Identity Card was issued just three weeks prior to his 4th birthday. He was identified as a Jew by the large J on the second page and as with all Jewsih males, was given the additional name, Israel.

Affidavit in Support of Mohr Family Application to Enter U.S.