1_09: Gary Sternberg
1948 June 26, Front side - Receipt from American President Lines for Gary Sternberg, Shanghai, China.
Tan paper with printed text and outline in English using black ink. A watermark of a passenger ship in blue ink covers the document. At the bottom right is a signature in black ink. A circular stamp from Shanghai dated June 28, 1948 appears at the bottom right.
Name/Title
1_09: Gary SternbergEntry/Object ID
2017.1.9Scope and Content
1948 June 26, receipt from American President Lines for Gary Sternberg, Shanghai, China.Context
Partial excerpt taken from exhibit page Gary Sternberg in Shanghai: Mixing Flour, Water, and German Opera: Gary (Gerd) Sternberg was born in Germany on August 25, 1931 to a Protestant mother and a Jewish father. Although he and his sister were raised and baptized as Protestants, Nazi ideology designated Gary as Jewish. Gary’s father was arrested and sent to Sachsenhausen concentration camp on June 14, 1938. When released January 28, 1939, the family managed to find refuge in Shanghai, China with about 18,000 other mostly-Jewish refugees. Gary’s family lived in Shanghai from May 1939 to July 1948. American President Lines founded in 1848, performed reliable transportation for the United States government among other things. The ship route was aboard U.S.S. General M.C. Meigs.Collection
Gary SternbergCategory
Receipt
Philatelic Material