Julius Holländer emigrates to the USA
During 1938, Julius Hollander applied for an emigration visa to the United States and received it from the US consulate in Stuttgart, Germany, on 24 February 1939. He left Rotterdam a month later.
Julius Holländer had a high place on the waiting list due to a 'low' application number. Because of the threatening situation in Germany, his brother-in-law Otto Frank wanted to take him in and provide for him, pending the consul's final decision.[1] After the US consulate in Stuttgart granted this visa on 24 February 1939, he left Rotterdam aboard the Veendam on 25 March and arrived in New York harbour on 5 April. He settled in Massachusetts, where his cousin Ernst Holländer had been living for some time.
Footnotes
- ^ NIOD Instituut voor Oorlogs-, Holocaust- en Genocidestudies, Amsterdam, Comité voor Joodsche Vluchtelingen, inv. nr. 503: Otto Frank aan het Comité voor Joodsche Vluchtelingen, 17 november 1938.