Anderson, Alfred and Jutta, Papers

Finding Aid

VITRAGE

IHRC

Immigration History Research Center, College of Liberal Arts, University of Minnesota

Descriptive summary

Dates: ca. 1940-1980
Abstract: Personal papers, certificates, documents, personal correspondence.
Quantity: 1 lin.ft.
Language: Estonian, English
Collection ID: IHRC3103

PROVENANCE

Collection acquired from the Estonian Archives in the U.S.A., Lakewood, New Jersey, in 2003-2005.

HISTORICAL SKETCH

Alfred Anderson was a lawyer and an economist, born in 1901 in Tartu, Estonia, received education from the University of Tartu (law and economics degrees (1934), later worked for the Estonian Meat Export Corporation. Between 1945 and 1949 at the DP Camp in Oldenburg, Germany. Resettled in the United States in 1949, since 1950 worked for the Estonian Relief Committee in New York and eventually became a translator for the Department of State. Jutta Anderson, born in 1902 in Penuja, Estonia, married to Alfred Anderson in 1940 in Estonia. After her resettlement in the United States worked as clerk at the Mount Sinai Hospital in New York.


DESCRIPTION OF THE COLLECTION


ACCESS RESTRICTIONS

The Anderson, Alfred and Jutta collection is available for public research.

OWNERSHIP & LITERARY RIGHTS

The Anderson, Alfred and Jutta collection is the physical property of the Immigration History Reseach Center, University of Minnesota.

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CITE AS

The Anderson, Alfred and Jutta Papers, Estonian American Collection, Immigration History Research Center, University of Minnesota

Index Terms

Estonian
Displaced persons
Refugees