Escape plan with a detour
A travel agency helps Ursula Meseritz with her travel planning to the USA
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“Following up on your visit to our office today, we are sending you the itinerary and the bill.”
NEW YORK
As the only member of her family, 18-year-old Ursula Meseritz left Germany in July and embarked from Le Havre to New York aboard the R.N.S. “Britannic.” Adolf Floersheim, a former neighbor and a resident of the U.S. since 1937, provided an affidavit for the young woman. Her parents, Olga and Fritz Meseritz, who had arranged for her emigration, remained in Hamburg. A travel agency, Plaut Travels, on Madison Avenue in New York, apparently run by German-Jewish immigrants, prepared the itinerary for Ursula’s next journey to the West Coast, with a leisurely detour to the capital, and sent it to her on August 8th.
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Institution:
Leo Baeck Institute – New York | Berlin
Collection:
Ursula Meseritz Elgart Family Collection, AR 25544
Original:
Box 1, folder 14
