L-005

Atlanta, Georgia

Naturalization jurisdiction and later residence connected to Auguste and the Wortsmanns.

Name variants
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People
Auguste Einstein Saalfeld, Ignatz Saalfeld, Rubin Milton Silverstein, Emil H. Saalfeld

Discoveries connected to this place

Auguste Saalfeld filed U.S. naturalization Petition no. 3939 in the U.S. District Court at Atlanta on 25 February 1944 and was admitted to citizenship on 24 January 1945.

The clerk's certification in S-022 states that the Certificate of Arrival and Declaration of Intention were filed with and made part of Petition no. 3939 on 25 February 1944. The admission card and oath record give 24 January 1945 as the admission and certificate date.

Confirmed
Emil Saalfeld first arrived at New York on 14 January 1923 aboard SS America, initially bound for Atlanta, and returned to New York on 7 February 1926 aboard SS Albert Ballin after reporting a 1923-1925 stay in New York.

The 1923 manifest independently identifies Emil through his father Ignatz and Limburg birthplace and says he had not previously been in the United States. The 1926 manifest again identifies Limburg and explicitly reports prior United States residence in New York from 1923 to 1925. Together they establish two arrivals and explain why the 1938 naturalization file used the 1926 entry as his lawful permanent-residence arrival.

Confirmed
Baden-Wuerttemberg awarded Auguste Saalfeld DM 140.25 for emigration costs in 1956, settled her professional-loss claim in 1958 with DM 6,200 in arrears and a lifetime monthly pension of DM 100, and awarded DM 1,023 for household distress-sale loss in 1959; her pension was later raised to DM 106 and ended with her death in June 1965.

The signed decisions, settlement copies, payment records, pension-adjustment decisions, and death-related closure correspondence in S-027 directly record each amount and disposition. The 1958 professional-loss settlement covered Auguste's own and derivative Ignatz claim and required waiver of further professional-loss compensation. S-028 preserves the corresponding authority calculation and waiver requirement from Ignatz's heirs file.

Confirmed
Rubin Milton Silverstein was born 2 January 1921 and died 31 March 2011 in Atlanta, Georgia.

A contemporary Atlanta obituary reports the 31 March 2011 death and age 90; the headstone and Samuel Silverstein's 1926 naturalization petition give 2 January 1921. Samuel's 1933 petition instead gives 2 January 1920, so the death date is confirmed but the birth year remains explicitly disputed.

Strongly supported
Auguste Saalfeld left Germany on 30 November 1938, traveled through Switzerland to Cherbourg, sailed aboard the SS Aquitania on 3 December, and entered the United States at New York on 9 December 1938; she then resided in Cincinnati until April 1939, Birmingham until 1 September 1939, and Atlanta.

S-022's Certificate of Arrival, declaration, petition, and independent Ohio and Alabama witness depositions agree on the New York arrival and establish the Cincinnati-to-Birmingham-to-Atlanta residence sequence. S-027's Cunard correspondence independently establishes the 3 December Cherbourg sailing, ticket 333320, and Berlin booking. The restitution authority found that she left Germany on 30 November and traveled via Switzerland; counsel separately relayed her daughter's statement that the daughter fled first and met Auguste for several days in Switzerland.

Strongly supported