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Family Counts Two Children: The Marta Bauer Case
Family Counts Two Children: The Marta Bauer Case
A single immigration card erased a four-year-old named Marta Bauer from her family’s arrival record - the original list named Petra (9), Ernst (6) and Marta (4), then two weeks later the number was quietly changed to two with Marta crossed out. Who removed a child from an official file in Baltimore in March 1951, and why did no one in the family ever speak her name?
In this episode, we follow how a power outage and a genealogy notification led Tracy Bauer to discover the discrepancy, how a National Archives request revealed a separate…
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