Exterior of apartment building at 1627 Humboldt Blvd
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Name/Title
Exterior of apartment building at 1627 Humboldt Blvd
Entry/Object ID
2020.11.000
Description
News photo image of exterior of 1627 N Humboldt Blvd to accompany article about Czechoslavakian refugee Adele Langer. Langer and her husband Karel fled Nazi occupation and lived in a ground-floor apartment here on a six-month visa. When their asylum in the U.S. was denied, she threw her two sons and then jumped to her death from the 13th floor of the Congress Hotel on Aug 4, 1939.
