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Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], in the Manfred and Ann Loeb Collection #P0029, North Carolina Collection Photographic Archives, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Acquisitions Information

Given on 12 June 1996 by Manfred and Ann Loeb, Silver Spring, Md. Accession no. 30601. Susan Block of Wilmington, N.C., helped arrange the donation of the collection and later donated manuscript portion of collection.

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The following terms from Library of Congress Subject Headings suggest topics, persons, geography, etc. interspersed through the entire collection; the terms do not usually represent discrete and easily identifiable portions of the collection--such as folders or items.

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• Families--North Carolina--Social life and customs.
• Heimann family.
• Immigrants--North Carolina--Photographs.
• Jewish children--North Carolina--Photographs.
• Jewish farmers--North Carolina--Photographs.
• Jewish refugees--North Carolina--History--20th century.
• Jews--North Carolina--Photographs.
• Loeb family.
• Loeb, Ann.
• Loeb, Manfred.
• North Carolina--Emigration and immigration.
• North Carolina--Photographs.
• Pender County (N.C.)--History.
• Pender County (N.C.)--Photographs.
• Photographs.
• Van Eden (N.C.)--History.
• Van Eden (N.C.)--Photographs.
• Wolf family.

• Southern Oral History Program Collection: Southern communities: Listening for a change: Jewish immigrants project (#4007.K.2.3), Southern Historical Collection, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

The Loeb family immigrated to the United States from Germany in the 1930s after the Nazi rise to power. Together with other families of European Jews, the Loeb family moved to the Van Eeden settlement in Pender County, N.C., in 1939. Manfred Loeb was one of two sons. He worked on the farm and attended school in Penderlea, N.C. In the 1940s, the family moved to Bridgeport, Conn., where Manfred Loeb apprenticed as a baker. In 1948, he married Ann Wolf, whose family had also lived in the Van Eeden settlement. The Loebs eventually moved to Washington, D.C., where they operated a successful bakery for many years.

The Van Eeden settlement was coordinated by Alvin Johnson of New York City, N.Y., and Hugh MacRae of Wilmington, N.C., and was named after Dutch author and social reformer Frederik Wilhelm van Eeden. Johnson and MacRae founded the settlement in 1939 to provide farmland for European Jewish refugees. It was located in Pender County, N.C., at the site of a former settlement founded by van Eeden. Four families, including the Loebs, moved into Van Eeden in 1939, followed by other families in the early 1940s. The settlement was exceptionally difficult to farm and no longer exists.

(Source: Block, Susan T. "Susan747's Blog." http://susan747.wordpress.com/ (accessed July 19, 2010).)

The materials in this collection relate to life in the Van Eeden settlement for the Loeb and other families. Most of the photographs were taken shortly after the families moved to Van Eeden and include images of the Loeb, Heimann, and Wolf families in their homes, working in the fields, and the children attending school. The collection includes images taken by a visiting photographer and family photographs taken while living in Van Eeden. Most of the photographs have photocopies that include handwritten labels describing the subjects of the images. Also included is a folder of correspondence to Susan Block, an historian researching the Van Eeden settlement, from various former residents relating memories of life and events there. There are also newspaper clippings about Manfred and Ann Loeb, their lives, and their bakery business.