Historical records matching Martha Westheimer
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About Martha Westheimer
- Please note: The Siegfried Wolf compilation cited below as well as the references to Martha Rehbock in Hans Nothnagel, Juden in Südthüringen, vol 5, identify Martha Rehbock's married name as "Wertheimer." But documents relevant to her immigration into the United States and life and death in the United States (cited below) identify her as Martha "Westheimer" married to Alexander Westheimer.
- Date/place of birth in Siegfried Wolf, Juden in Thüringen 1933-1945: Biographische Daten. (2000), vol 2 (unpaginated)
- Identified as daughter of Meyer and Henriette (née Haue) Westheimer in Wolf.
- Identified as wife of Alexander Westheimer, and mother of Horst Westheimer, in 1942 ship's manifest cited below.
- On 10 July 1942, Martha Westheimer left Lisbon, Portugal, with her son Horst, arriving in Baltimore on 30 July 1942; Martha Westheimer and her son Horst sailed from Lisbon/Portugal to Baltimore on SS Nyassa. They were two of the "five hundred and fifty-seven refugees from Nazism who had been stranded in Portugal and unoccupied France, arrived here last night aboard the Portuguese liner, S.S. Nyassa. The Nyassa left Lisbon, Portugal, on July 10, put in at Casablanca, French Morocco, several days later to pick up the bulk of her passengers who had been transferred from Marseille, unoccupied France, in order to board the ship, and stopped over at Bermuda on July 21 for a week." see The National Archives at Washington, D.C.; Washington, D.C.; Records of the US Customs Service, RG36; NAI Number: 2655153; Record Group Title: Records of the Immigration and Naturalization Service, 1787-2004; Record Group Number: 85; about the voyage of the S.S. Nyassa, see https://www.jta.org/1942/07/31/archive/jewish-refugees-who-were-str...
- On 8 December 1947, Martha Westheimer became an American citizen; see Ancestry.com. New York, Index to Petitions for Naturalization filed in New York City, 1792-1989
- death date/place in U.S., Social Security Death Index, 1935-2014, Number: 124-18-7642; Issue State: New York; Issue Date: Before 1951
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Martha Westheimer's Timeline
| 1889 |
January 21, 1889
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Gehaus, Thuringia, Germany
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| 1986 |
November 1986
Age 97
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Bronx, New York, New York, United States
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