Sam and Susan Weiss collection

Identifier
irn42560
Language of Description
English
Alt. Identifiers
  • 2011.127.1
Dates
1 Jan 1920 - 31 Dec 1950
Level of Description
Item
Languages
  • Czech
  • German
  • English
  • Russian
Source
EHRI Partner

Extent and Medium

folder

1

Archival History

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Acquisition

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Renee Weiss

Funding Note: The cataloging of this collection has been supported by a grant from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.

Renee Weiss donated the Sam and Susan Weiss collection to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in February 2011.

Scope and Content

The Sam and Susan Weiss collection consists of documents and photographs related to the pre-war and post-war lives of Salomon (Sam) Weiss and Zuzana Lehrmanova (later Susan Weiss), both originally of Uzhorod, Czechoslovakia. The collection includes citizenship documents, identification documents, and immigration documents. The photographs include members of the Weiss family and the Lehrmanova family, most of whom did not survive the Holocaust.

System of Arrangement

The Sam and Susan Weiss collection is arranged in a single series.

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Genre

This description is derived directly from structured data provided to EHRI by a partner institution. This collection holding institution considers this description as an accurate reflection of the archival holdings to which it refers at the moment of data transfer.