Vera Meisels collection

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn43730
• English
• folder 1
• Updated 6 months ago

Contains photographs documenting the family of Cecilia and Zoltan Gardosh Meisels and their daughters Aliska (Alice) and Vera (donor), from Slovakia.

• 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 6 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...

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn514374
• English
• folder 1
• Updated 6 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.

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn516728
• English
• 1942-1944
• folder 1
• Updated 6 months ago

The postcard was sent from Lublin, Poland, to Alexander Schaff in Trebisŏv, Slovakia.