Kurt Immerwahr, father: a businessman, emigrated from Germany to the United Kingdom at the end of the 1930s with his wife.
Johanna Katalin Freund, mother: emigrated from Germany to the United Kingdom at the end of the 1930s with her husband.
Aid organisations
International Student Service, Switzerland
Emergency Committee in Aid of Displaced Foreign Scholars, New York
American Friends Service Committee, Philadelphia
References
Giorgio Pasquali (1885-1952): Immerwahr's thesis advisor in Florence, Pasquali wrote Immerwahr a letter of recommendation for the International Student Service in 1938; Pasquali also introduced Immerwahr to the classical archaeologist Karl Lehmann-Hartleben.
Support network
Karl Lehmann-Hartleben (1894-1960), a professor of classical archaeology in Münster, he moved to the US in 1935 and became a professor at the Institute of Fine Arts at the City University of New York: Lehmann helped Immerwahr obtain a scholarship at the American School of Classical Studies at Athens and later a scholarship at Yale.
Stefan Joseph (later Stephen) Zand (Łódź 1898 - 1963), an aeronautic engineer who moved from Poland to the US in 1925: his house in Long Island, NY was the first address that Immerwahr provided to the US authorities.
Movements
1916Breslau (later Wrocław)
Birth and Education
Johannes-Gymnasium
Student
1934Florence
Move to Florence
Università di Firenze
Student
1939Great Britain
Reunion with parents
1939Athens
Scholarship at the ASCSA
American School of Classical Studies at Athens
Student
1940New York
Emigration to the United States
1941Haverford, Pennsylvania
First living accommodation
Student
1941New Haven
Doctorate at Yale
Student
1946Cambridge (MA)
Scholarship to Harvard Financed by the Guggenheim Foundation