WW2 Holocaust 1937-1939 travel documents Rabbi Grosswirt & his wife, Auschwitz

Outstanding set of WW2 Holocaust travel documents:

Poland passport issued at Munich in 1937 for Sura (Sarah) Groswirt, born Landau on April 21, 1885, in Zdunska-Wola, Poland, she likely emigrated to Munich in 1906 with her husband, Rabbi Bencion Groswirt, and then to Paris in 1939.

On June 23, 1942, her husband, a member of Agudat Israel, was deported from Drancy to Auschwitz on Convoy 55 and murdered on the tarmac after his selection.

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Application for immigration US visa (non quota) made by Rabbi Bencion Grosswirt on 1939 at Paris, visa being refused.

On June 23, 1942, Bencion Grosswirt was deported from Drancy to Auschwitz on Convoy 55 and murdered on the tarmac after his selection.

His son Gabriel emigrated to New York in September 1938; he was killed as an American soldier in France on September 7, 1944.

His daughter, Dr. Anna Bloch, married Rabbi Dr. Fritz Bloch and emigrated to Tel Aviv, Palestine, in March 1939. She died in Israel on March 8, 1985.

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