Weissner family collection

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- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn515148
- English
- overall: Height: 82.000 inches (208.28 cm) | Width: 28.500 inches (72.39 cm)
- Updated 8 months ago
Wool blanket or "cergi" typical of Maramures region, formerly Transylvania composed of dark brown and light brown stripes. Blankets were taken to Auschwitz with Abraham Weissner (donor's wife's grandfather) and his daughter Gizela Naday. Abraham died of starvation in Auschwitz and Gizela took both blankets to an airplane factory in Mittelstein and to Weisswasser where she was liberated. She returned to Baia Mare after the war. The shorter blanket belonged to Abraham
Blanket
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn515149
- English
- overall: Height: 78.000 inches (198.12 cm) | Width: 28.500 inches (72.39 cm)
- Updated 8 months ago
Wool blanket or "cergi" typical of Maramures region, formerly Transylvania composed of dark brown and light brown stripes. Blankets were taken to Auschwitz with Abraham Weissner (donor's wife's grandfather) and his daughter Gizela Naday. Abraham died of starvation in Auschwitz and Gizela took both blankets to an airplane factory in Mittelstein and to Weisswasser where she was liberated. She returned to Baia Mare after the war. The shorter blanket belonged to Abraham
Metal milk strainer used by a farm family
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn515150
- English
- overall: Height: 5.750 inches (14.605 cm) | Width: 5.000 inches (12.7 cm)
- Updated 8 months ago
Milk strainer used by the Weissner family, circa 1945.

Weissner family collection

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Metal milk strainer used by a farm family