Gift of Lenore Geller and Cheryl Duboys
Id no. 2005.A.55, Document
Blanka (Blima) Rock?s US immigrant identification card was under the Polish quota, which restricted immigration to the US under the Immigration Act of 1924. Rock arrived in New York on board the S. Batory on January 23, 1938.
Rock was born in Sedziszow, Poland in 1923 and came to the US with her family in 1938. In America, Rock?s first name was changed to Blanche. She married Leon Blonder in May 1945 and became a US citizen in 1946.