Max van Pels to the USA
Hermann van Pels' brother Max left for Amsterdam in March 1938.
Max van Pels and his wife Anni Haag left for the US east coast via Amsterdam and Liverpool. In 1937, they had already visited America once from Hamburg on temporary visas. Both times they visited Max's uncle Ferdinand ('Fred') Vorsänger, a brother of his mother. After a stopover of several months in Amsterdam, they left permanently and arrived in New York as immigrants on 5 September 1938.[1]
Footnotes
- ^ National Archives and Records Administration, Washington D.C., records of the Immigration and Naturalization Services, list or manifest of alien passengers for the United States Immigrant Inspector at port of arrival, S.S. 'Samaria', passengers sailing from Liverpool, 27 August 1938, arrival in New York 5 September 1938.