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Compensation Claims; Possible emigration to USA

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MS. Braun 206

Summary

Folder 1: Miscellaneous papers relating to Anneliese and Ruth Braun's compensation claims. Includes correspondence and lists relating to the relocation goods (Lift) at Hamburg Freihafen, c. 1939-1959, and to confiscated silverware, 1955-1958; copies relating to the claim for compensation of financial damage, c. 1952; correspondence relating to compensation for damage to Gerhard Braun's health, c. 1952-1957; Anneliese Braun's copies of papers relating to compensation claims made by Konrad Braun and Anneliese Braun on behalf and as legal heirs of Johannes Braun, Hildegard Braun, Gertrud Friedmann-Braun, 1959-1962; correspondence relating to Anneliese Braun's widow's pension, 1964-1966.

Folder 2: Papers relating to possible emigration to the USA, 1938-1940, mainly correspondence with US consulates, and with friends and relatives in the USA including Albert Tenney, Chester and Adah Lydia ('Betty') Finster, Eugen Eisenlohr, Ellen Mary Friedmann).