Weil and Oppenheimer family collection

Identifier
irn39783
Language of Description
English
Alt. Identifiers
  • 2010.127.1
Level of Description
Item
Source
EHRI Partner

Web Source

https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn39783

Extent and Medium

box

1

Archival History

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Acquisition

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of the Weil Family

Donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2010 by Nancy Weil Price for the Weil Family.

Scope and Content

Collection of documents, correspondence, and photographs relating to the experiences of the Weil and Oppenheimer families from Landau in der Pfalz and Koblenz, Germany. Isidor and Auguste Weil were deported to Gurs internment camp where Isidor died on January 6, 1941; their three sons: Heinz, Louis, and Ernst were able to reach the US with the help of a distant relative and their mother arrived in the US in 1941.

Genre

  • Document
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