First Voyage:

	Ship:	Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse
	Departed:	Bremen, 7 Sept 1909
	Arrived:	New York City, 14 September
	Travel Class:	Saloon or First Cabin
	Age:	20 years
	Occupation:	merchant
	Citizen:	German
	Race:	German
	Height:	5'10" (178cm)
	Cash:	At least $50
	Staying with:	a friend, (Valentin?) Loewi

Second Voyage:
(Because the Ellis Island site sends you to the wrong document, there was only the information below. There is different information presented if you view the text version of the manifest, which also only has limited information. The latter is also shown below, after the italicized "or"s.)

	Ship:	La Touraine or Kronprinzessin Cecilie
	Departed:	Havre, 20 Nov 1909 or Cherbourg
	Arrived:	New York City, 28 November or 30 Nov 1909

Third Voyage:

	Ship:	Kronprinz Wilhelm
	Departed:	Cherbourg, 17 Aug 1910
	Arrived:	New York City, 23 August
	Travel Class:	Saloon or First Cabin
	Age:	21
	Occupation:	student
	Citizen:	German
	Race:	Hebrew
	Height:	5'10" (178cm)
	Cash:	At least $50
	Staying with:	(uncle?) Mr. Hugo Loewi

Tips for visiting the Ellis Island site:
    You have to register to search and see the documents. Searching and viewing are free.
    Click Passenger Search, New Search. Enter Otto Frank, male, born in 1889. There are three trips. View the manifest (and the ship image if you are interested in seeing that). Viewing the "passenger record" is usually a waste of time, in my opinion.
    When you look at the manifest, you will not really see anything unless you click the image or the enlarge button. Either of these takes you to a new window, where you will be zoomed in very close. So it is good to take note (in the original window) of which line he is on (there are 30 lines per page).
    The information is on two pages. Sometimes they send you to the second page, sometimes to the first. If his name is on the page they send you to, then the second page is the next page. If not, then the previous page has the rest of his information. The original window has the controls for getting next and previous pages.
    The information is handwritten and microfilmed, so some deciphering is inevitable. The first class passengers were all put together. What I called the travel class is printed toward the top of the second sheets.
    Don't bother with the second trip because they send you to the wrong document. But that ship image is available.

Notes: The Loewi name appears in Otto's family tree as people related by marriages. See the front section of Müller's Biography of Anne. In The Hidden Life of Otto Frank, page 15, Carol Ann Lee states that Otto returned to Frankfurt "several times" from the US, despite the expense of ocean liner travel. "Several" seems like more than three times. It could be that Lee is mistaken. However, Ellis Island didn't process all foreigners. For example, their records do not include Charlie Chaplin's first trip to the USA. (Chaplin said he arrived in the fall of 1909 or 1910, via cattle boat to Canada, took a train, went through US Immigration, then NYC — see his autobiography, p. 119.) Their online records do include Chaplin's second trip.

References:
    Ellis Island online
    The Hidden Life of Otto Frank, by Carol Ann Lee, p. 10-15

Last Update: 6 Aug 2005