Ruth Weyl collection
Extent and Medium
folders
2
Archival History
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Acquisition
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Ruth Weyl
Ruth Weyl donated this collection to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives on July 1, 2004 via United States Holocaust Memorial Museum volunteer Jill Pauly. An accretion was added on Sep. 1, 2004. Another accretion was added on Sep. 10, 2004.
Scope and Content
Consists of photographs of the Weyl family and other German Jewish refugees in Kisumu and Nairobi, Kenya, where they spent the war. Also contains one memoir, 11 pages, entitled "My Memories from Africa," written by Ruth Weyl, documenting her experiences in Africa from 1937-1948, as well as an advertisement card for the Weyl's boarding house in Nairobi, letters of recommendation, and correspondence from their lives in Africa.
Subjects
- Kenya.
Genre
- Document
- Photographs.
- Personal narratives.
- Letters.