Bleiweis family papers

Identifier
irn511801
Language of Description
English
Alt. Identifiers
  • 2003.180
Dates
1 Jan 1929 - 31 Dec 1960
Level of Description
Item
Languages
  • German
  • Polish
  • Yiddish
Source
EHRI Partner

Extent and Medium

box

1

Archival History

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Acquisition

The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives received these papers from Sol Bleiweis and Clare Nimer on November 4, 2002.

Scope and Content

Contains correspondence, documents and photographs related to the family of Hermann (Juda-Hersz) and Nesie (born Schwalb) Bleiweis, who lived in Gladbeck, Germany, in the 1920s and 1930s. The family emigrated to Palestine in 1937 and from there, to the United States. Includes pre-war photographs and documents of life in Gladbeck, as well as Schwalb family correspondence sent from Rozhnyatov, Poland, to the Bleiweis family in the United States from 1938-1941. Included in the correspondence is testimony of the events surrounding the expulsion of Polish-born Jews living in Germany back to Poland.

People

Subjects

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