Customs Form 5101
TREASURY DEPARTMENT
Arts. 1169½, 1212, 1268, C. R. 1937;
T. D. 49832, 49833.
April 1939
ENTRY RECORD Entry No. 8287
RECEIPT
MISSING DOCUMENTS Impost No. ________
Miss Mina Kaufmann (Address)
(Owner—Declared on entry) same [?]
* (Entered in name of) (Date of entry)
* [illegible] 4/17/40
(Conveyance) (Date of arrival)
H.H. and personal effects
(Description of merchandise)
(Missing documents)
I hereby make application to make entry prior to $_________ (Internal revenue tax)
production of missing document(s) named above. $ 14.32 (Duty)
(Signature)
(See reverse side for instructions) 2—15636 Receipt
U.S. Customs Entry Record / Receipt / Missing Documents form (Customs Form 5101)
This U.S. Customs form documents the arrival of the Oppenheimers' shipped belongings in New York on April 17, 1940 — just 13 days after Arthur Baer dispatched them from Rotterdam (see 0014). The shipment was declared by Mina Kaufmann as owner and described as "H.H. and personal effects" (household goods and personal effects). A customs duty of $14.32 was assessed, and entry number 8287 was assigned. The form notes "Missing Documents," indicating that some required paperwork (likely the bill of lading or detailed manifest) had not yet been produced at the time of entry. The relatively quick 13-day transit from Rotterdam to New York via the Holland America Line reflects the efficiency of the route — one of the last functioning transatlantic shipping corridors before the German invasion of the Netherlands closed it permanently on May 10, 1940.