Passengers ex Casablanca to New York sailed SS "Serpa Pinto" June 7, 1942. (ID: 31555)
Authorship or Source:
American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee.
Year:
1942
Title or Main Description:
Passengers ex Casablanca to New York sailed SS "Serpa Pinto" June 7, 1942.
Description:
- 14 leaves : tabs. ; 29 cm.
- Number of Names or Other Entries-- 504 Names.
Date:
June 7, 1942
Type of Work:
Typescript with handwritten notations
Alternate or Series Title:
- Typed alphabetical list relating to the passengers of the 'Serpa Pinto' who embarked in Casablanca 7 Jun 1942. The ship was bound for New York.
- 13th boat since Pearl Harbor brings 677 evacuated by Joint Distribution Committee -- Passengers say conditions in Europe becoming worse; 5,200 Aided to escape by J.D.C. since America entered War.
Museum or Other Institution Holdings:
- Survivors Registry Collection [photocopy]: Document File AC0363.
- A scan of this document in PDF format is available to authorized USHMM Computer Network users at T:\DArchives\ReferenceCollection\AC0363\AC0363.PDF.
Provenance:
- Source Institution: American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee, New York.
- Institutional Call Number-- AR33/44, #387, 294
Keywords:
- Serpa Pinto (Ship) --Registers.
- Serpa Pinto (Ship) --Passenger lists.
- Refugees, Jewish --Morocco --Casablanca --Registers.
- Refugees, Jewish --United States --New York (State) --New York --Registers.
- Jews --Emigration and immigration --Registers.
- Refugees, Jewish --Travel --Sources.
- American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee. --Portugal --Lisbon --Sources.
- Hebrew Sheltering and Immigrant Aid Society of America. --Sources.
- HICEM --Sources.
- United States Children's Committee. --Sources.
Abstract:
- Four typewritten alphabetical passenger lists of Jewish refugees who sailed aboard the ship S.S. Serpa Pinto to New York, having embarked in Casablanca on June 7, 1942. Cumulatively numbered columnar entries include surname, forename, age, class, age, price of passage (i.e. in Portuguese Escudos), and "Head Tax" (i.e. in U.S. Dollars, labeled: "HT$").
- The lists are arranged by different accounts:
- -- HICEM (leaves 1-10, separately paginated as p. [1]-10)
- -- U.S. Children Committee (leaves 11-12, separately paginated as p. [1]-2)
- -- Polish Committee (leaf 13)
- -- J.D.C. Lisbon [="Joint Distribution Committee, Lisbon"] (leaf 13).
- The final leaf in this document is a press release from the American Joint Distribution Committee in New York dated June 26 titled: "13th boat since Pearl Harbor brings 677 evacuated by Joint Distribution Committee -- Passengers say conditions in Europe becoming worse; 5,200 Aided to escape by J.D.C. since America entered War".
Language and Other Notes:
- Text in English.
- Formerly cataloged under the cataloger-assigned title: Typed alphabetical list relating to the passengers of the 'Serpa Pinto' who embarked in Casablanca 7 Jun 1942. The ship was bound for New York.
Location of Electronic or Internet File:
- T:\DArchives\ReferenceCollection\AC0363\AC0363.PDF (Museum Network)
- https://www.ushmm.org/media/images/vlpnamelist/AC0363/AC0363.PDF (Internet)
Resource Center Cataloging Notes:
Former Q&A Name Lists Database File Number-- AC0363