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US immigration visa for Kurt E. Schulherr from Nuremberg
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A number of Jews from Nuremberg managed to emigrate in time, thereby escaping death. Nevertheless, the emigration caused a rupture in the biography of every individual. For many, the beginning of a new life was marked by elementary emotional effects such as the feeling of uprootedness and loss and the sudden need for a new start.
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On March 28,1940, the municipal gazette featured an article about the development of the Jewish population of Nuremberg after January 30, 1933, under the cynical title "The Exodus of the Jews from the City of Party Rallies", written by Prof. Dr. Maximilian Meyer, Director of the Department of Statistics. According to this article, the number of Nuremberg Jews receded from 8,266 on February 1, 1933 to 2,668 on January 1,1940. Meyer estimated that 2,500 Jews were still living in the city when the article was published.
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According to research conducted by Gerhard Jochem, a historian from Nuremberg, a total of 2,539 fellow Jewish citizens emigrated from Nuremberg. Of these, 40% settled in the USA, 22% in Great Britain, 9% in Palestine, 5% in France, and another 5% in the Netherlands. The others moved to other friendly countries.
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The fate of the Heilbronner and Schneebalg families is representative of many emigration stories.
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