The Ringel family crossed from Lisbon on the SS Guine—but their entry to the U.S. was anything but routine
The Schiffres family reached Lisbon about five weeks after the Ringel family. Their experiences…
Before returning to Mssr. Gissot, we'll skip ahead a month or so to when our intrepid travelers…
Walter called to remind me that we have already written about the role played by the immigration…
From Life Magazine, April 26, 1941.
The article "Lisbon: Europe's Bottleneck" from the April 26, 1941 issue of Life Magazine is too…
Here is wonderful information about the man who was Elly Ringel's benefactor in 1941. Helga said…
Arriving in Lisbon in the last days of July 1940, Elly and Helga, and also Elly's sister Hilda…
And here is a very detailed report from the famous James 'Scotty' Reston about the refugee…
This report from the New York Times covers the situation in Portugal the very week our travelers…
This Ecuador immigration visa issued on February 27, 1941, was the credential that the Ringels…
Speaking with Walter earlier about Elly's travel documents, I said I would take a close look at…
Here are a couple of fascinating new documents also discovered via Ancestry's hinting feature.…
From Walter: here are the two scanned documents from HIAS. The first is the file filled out by…
Nice work, Walter. Too bad the full file is missing, but it is great that you found those…
Valery Bazarov, the present-day historian at HIAS (Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society), the…
