Vera Meyer FamilyCollection 1890-2000 bulk 1916-1949

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Vera Meyer FamilyCollection 1890-2000 bulk 1916-1949

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This collectiondocuments the lives of Vera Meyer's family members, especially her parents, Alfredand Eva Meyer, but also involving her grandparents and uncles. Prominent in thecollection are the many family photographs and copies of family correspondence,including immigration and wartime letters. Other material consists of somebiographical essays and a family tree.

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SNAC Resource ID: 6346135

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Meyer Family

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Marcus Family

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Meyer, Vera

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Gustav Meyer was born in Herford, in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. He studied law and was a member of the Alsatia fraternity in Leipzig. In 1911, he established himself as an attorney in Bielefeld. A soldier in World War I, during the war he met his future wife Therese Melchior, a nurse. They had three sons: Gerhard Rudolf (known as Rolf, born in 1917), Alfred George (born in 1920) and Hans-Joachim Gustav (called Hajo, born in 1924). All three sons emigrated in 1939. ...

Meyer, Gerhard R. (Gerhard Rudolf), 1908-1977

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Meyer, Hans-Joachim, 1924-

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Apel Family

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Meyer, Gustav, 1884-1944

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Myers family

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Meyer, Alfred G.

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Alfred George Meyer was born on February 5, 1920, in Bielefeld, Germany, the second of three sons born to parents Gustav and Therese (Melchior) Meyer. After a thwarted attempt by his parents to leave Nazi Germany in 1937, Meyer in 1939 escaped from Bielefeld to the United States, days before the start of World War II. Earlier that year his younger brother Hajo had gained passage to the Netherlands with a transport of Jewish children, and his older brother Rolf had gone to Manchester...

Meyer, Therese, 1890-1944

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Melchior Family

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