Isak and Sally Springer collection, 2.12.2020

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Summary

Title:
Isak and Sally Springer collection
Dates:
2.12.2020
Abstract:
The Springer collection primarily consists of Isak and Sally Springer's emigration documents from 1949 to 1959.
Extent:
1 Files
Language:
English .
Preferred citation:

[Item title/description; box number/folder number] Isak and Sally Springer collection (2020.004.h.r), Oskar Schindler Archive, Chapman University, CA.

Background

Scope and content:

The Springer collection primarily consists of Isak and Sally Springer's emigration documents from 1949 to 1959. It includes four naturalization petition cards, Declaration of Intention, Certificates of Naturalization, an identification card issued by the United States Immigration and Naturalization Department.

Biographical / historical:

Isak Springer was born in Bendzin, Poland, on March 5, 1917. Isak was born into an Orthodox Jewish family, his parents Abraham and Perla Springer, with four siblings. When the Germans invaded their hometown, Bendzin, on September 4, 1939, the Springer family was allowed to stay together in their own home, until they were moved into a Jewish ghetto. While living in the ghetto, the family built a hiding place and eventually were able to escape. By posing as Polish citizens, they were able to move from occupied Poland. The family had to split up, Isak went to the Soviet Union, his father and brother stayed together, while the mother and sisters were together. Both parents and all five children survived; they are the only known European Jewish family to have all survived.

Isak later married his wife, Sally. On December 29, 1951, they emigrated to the United States on the USS General Sturgis. They lived in Los Angeles, California. Issak and his wife became Naturalized and United States citizens in 1957. Issak passed away on February 10, 2005.

Physical description:
Good
Rules or conventions:
Describing Archives: A Content Standard

About this collection guide

Collection Guide Author:
Tiana Taliep
Date Encoded:
This finding aid was produced using ArchivesSpace on 2023-05-23 16:45:05 -0400 .

Access and use

Restrictions:

This collection is open for research.

Terms of access:

There are no restrictions on the use of the material except where previously copyrighted material is concerned. It is the responsibility of the researcher to obtain all permissions.

Preferred citation:

[Item title/description; box number/folder number] Isak and Sally Springer collection (2020.004.h.r), Oskar Schindler Archive, Chapman University, CA.

Location of this collection:
One University Drive
Orange, CA 92866, US
Contact:
(714) 532-6005
schindlerarchive@chapman.edu
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