Ingeborg B. Weinberger papers

Identifier
irn503723
Language of Description
English
Alt. Identifiers
  • 1993.A.0004
  • RG-14.008
Dates
1 Jan 1933 - 31 Dec 1959
Level of Description
Item
Languages
  • German
  • English
Source
EHRI Partner

Extent and Medium

folders

oversize folder

5

1

Creator(s)

Biographical History

Ingeborg Bertha Weinberger (née Cohn,1920-2013) was born in Leipzig, Germany to Charlotte and Ludwig Cohn. Her father was a World War I veteran and doctor. Responding to increased Jewish persecution in Germany, Ingeborg's family fled to England, Prague, and Bolivia. Ingeborg emigrated from Leipzig in 1939 to Bolivia. En route to Bolivia, she stopped in Baltimore, Maryland where her boyfriend, Hans Weinberger (b. 1915 to Margarete and Theodor Weinberger), had already immigrated. They married in Baltimore, but Ingeborg was not able to stay in the United States and continued to Bolivia where she lived with her parents. They all later immigrated to the United States. Ingeborg and Hans returned to Germany after Hans got a job as a translator at the Nuremberg Trials. While in Germany, Ingeborg worked at the United States office of Censorship. They later moved back to Baltimore where Ingeborg worked for the Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society (HIAS).

Archival History

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Acquisition

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Ingeborg Weinberger

Ingeborg Weinberger donated them to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives in October 1991.

Scope and Content

Collection documents the Holocaust-era experiences of Ingeborg Weinberger (née Cohn) and her father Ludwig Cohn of Leipzig, Germany; her husband Hans Weinberger and his parents Margarete and Theodor Weinberger, and relatives in the Landsberger and Coblenzer families. Included are pre-war sports-related documents of Ingeborg, a small amount of wartime and postwar correspondence regarding the Holocaust experiences of the Weinbergers, German passports, a workbook (arbeitsbuch), financial documents of Ludwig Cohn, two photographs of Edgar Landsberger, and a photocopy of a family book (Stammbuch) of the Coblenzer family.

System of Arrangement

Collection is arranged as a single series. Folder 1: Coblenzer family book and photographs of Edgar Landsberger, 1934 and undated. Folder 2: Cohn, Ludwig, 1935-1939. Folder 3: Weinberger, Hans, 1934-1959. Folder 4, OS 1: Weinberger, Ingeborg, 1933-1939. Folder 5: Weinberger, Margarete and Theodor, 1939-1957.

People

Subjects

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.