Vera Meisels collection

Identifier: irn42319
Language of Description: English
Level of Description: Collection
Source: EHRI Partner

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https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn42319

Acquisition

The collection was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2010 by Vera Meisels. Accretions may have been added.

Scope and Content

The collection consists of a sculpture, The Lost Child, created by Vera Meisels in the postwar period and photographs relating to the experiences of Vera and her family in Presov, Czechoslovakia, and in Theresienstadt concentration camp before, during, and after the Holocaust. Some of these materials may be combined into a single collection in the future.

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Vera Meisels photographs
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn43730
- English
- folder 1
- Updated 7 months ago
Contains photographs documenting the family of Cecilia and Zoltan Gardosh Meisels and their daughters Aliska (Alice) and Vera (donor), from Slovakia.
Commemorative clay sculpture of a child and adult before a wall by Vera Meisels
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn43731
- English
- overall: Height: 9.500 inches (24.13 cm) | Width: 8.000 inches (20.32 cm) | Depth: 2.250 inches (5.715 cm)
- Updated 7 months ago
Clay sculpture featuring the figures of a child and an adult at the base of a high wall created by Vera Meisels, circa 2000. It commemorates her experiences as an 8 year old prisoner in Theresienstadt ghetto-labor camp from December 1944-May 1945. Vera, her parents, Cecilia and Zoltan, and her 12 year old sister, Aliska, fled Ruzomberok, Czechoslovakia, after the Slovak National Uprising against the Nazi allied government in August 1944. They hid in the mountains, but when they ran out of food, returned to town and were arrested by the Germans. Vera’s father was sent to Sachsenhausen concen...
Frei/Meisels photograph collection
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn514374
- English
- folder 1
- Updated 7 months ago
Consists of three pre-World War II portrait photographs of two young girls, Katerina and Gabriela Frei, and one photograph of the girls with their mother, Etelka Meisels Frei. The three women perished in Auschwitz in 1944.
Vera Meisels postcard
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn516728
- English
- 1942-1944
- folder 1
- Updated 7 months ago
The postcard was sent from Lublin, Poland, to Alexander Schaff in Trebisŏv, Slovakia.

Vera Meisels collection

Child Items

Vera Meisels photographs

Commemorative clay sculpture of a child and adult before a wall by Vera Meisels

Frei/Meisels photograph collection

Vera Meisels postcard