Weiss family papers
Extent and Medium
folder
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Archival History
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Acquisition
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Dorothea Szczesniak
The papers were donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 1998 by Dorothea Weiss Szczesniak.
Scope and Content
The papers consist of a list sent from Malines concentration camp by Karl Weiss, Dorothea's father, to Madame Dujardin who saved Dorothea and her sister from deportation by the Gestapo, a good conduct certificate (Führungszeugnis) issued to Berta Weiss, Dorothea's mother, a letter sent to Karl Weiss by the police in Berlin, Germany, a re-issued birth certificate, and a family wedding photograph.
People
- Weiss, Karl.
- Weiss, Berta.
Corporate Bodies
Subjects
- Berlin (Germany)
- France.
- Jews--Germany--History--1933-1945.
Genre
- Letters.
- Certificates.
- Document
- Birth certificates.