| Name |
Helena Kupferman [1] |
| Born |
07 Mar 1896 |
Powizdow House Nr. 76, Tarnow, Poland  [1] |
| Gender |
Female |
| Residence |
16 Sep 1925 |
Esslinggasse 8, Wien I, Austria [2] |
| Declaration of Inten |
10 Jun 1941 |
South District of New York Court, New York, New York, USA [3] |
- 45||white||fair||blue||brown||5 feet 2 inches||1?0||scar left chin||She was a factory worker.
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| Alien Registration |
08 May 1942 |
New York, New York, USA [4] |
- 7585143||Her name was Helene Rafael, she entered the United States under the name of SAME, and she had also been known by the neame Helen Kupferman. She lived at 42-15 81st Street, Elmhurst, Queens, N.Y. She was born on March 1, 1896 at Tarnow, Galicia,Poland and was a citizen of Czechoslovakia. She was 5 feet 1 inch in height, weighed 165 pounds, had blond hair and blue eyes. She last arrived in the United States at New York on 11/2/40 and came in by SS Ancon of the Panama Line as a Passenger and a permanenet resident. She first arrived in the United States on November 2, 1940 and had lived in the United States a totoal of 1 1/2 years. She expected to remain permanently. Her usual occupation was housewife. She had applied for first citizenship papersin the United States on 12/17/40 and received them on 6/10/41,No. 491031 at NY, NY. She had no parents, a husband and one child living in the United States.
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| Petiton for Naturali |
17 Dec 1945 |
Brooklyn, New York, USA [5] |
- Helene Rafael resided at 42-15 81st Street, Elmhurst, NY and was a housewife, age 49. She was born on March 1, 1896 at Tarnov, Poland. She had a fair complexion, blue eyes, blond hair, and was 5 feet 2 inches tall. She weighed 170 pounds. Her husband was Arthur, whom she married on January 29th 1923 at Vienna Austria. He was born at Gabonz, Czechslovakia on January 29, 1892 and died on Aug 7, 1944 at New York, NY. She had one daughter Billy born on September 16, 1926 at Vienna, Austria who resided at New York, NY. Her last place of foreign residence was Port au Prince, Haiti. She emigrated to the United States from Port au Prince, Haiti to New York, N.Y. under the name of Helena Rafael on November 2, 1940 on the SS Ancon.
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| Naturalization |
14 Feb 1946 |
District Cout of The United States, Brooklyn, New York, USA [6] |
- She was 49 years old, had a fair complexion, blue eyes, light brown hair, and was 5 feet 2 inches tall. She weighedc 170 pounds, was a widow, and her former nationality was Austrian.
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| Anecdote |
14 Oct 1947 [7] |
She applied for a special certificate of naturalizaton on 14 October 1947. She stated on the application: " I desire the special certificate sent to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Prague, Czechoslovakia, through the apprpriate U.S. Consul, in Czechoslovakia, for the purpose of establishing my right to and obtaining the following at the following places, as the sole heiress of mhy late husband's estate, whose name was Arthur Rafael: Building #420, Zahradni ulice, Jablonec n/N, Czechoslovakia, $15, 000.00; Deposits with Ceska Banka Union, Prague, Czechoslovakia, #132,815/113 $1673, 132,904/113 $3653, 132,963/113 $5944,. 132,962/113 $5291
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| Reference Number |
2610 |
| Died |
03 Feb 1969 |
New York [8] |
| Buried |
Mt. Hebron Cemetery, Flushing, Queens, New York [8] |
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IMG_8547
Gravestone for Helene Rafael, 1896 - 1969, in Mt. Hebron Cemetery |
| Person ID |
I2610 |
My Genealogy |
| Last Modified |
6 Jun 2009 |
1896 - 1969
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