Ida Weiss collection

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Ida Weiss passport
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn515912
- English
- folder 1
- Updated 8 months ago
Austrian passport: rectangular form consisting of 48 pages, typed and handwritten text, black and white photographic image of woman, and postal and ink stamps throughout; issued to Ida Weiss on June 8, 1928, No. 403982.
Black flat top steamer trunk used by a Jewish Austrian refugee
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn515913
- English
- overall: Height: 10.125 inches (25.718 cm) | Width: 17.375 inches (44.133 cm) | Depth: 39.375 inches (100.013 cm)
- Updated 8 months ago
Trunk used by Ida Weiss during her journey from Austria to the United States in 1938. Ida was a Czech Jew who lived in Vienna with her daughter, Louisa. After Austria was annexed by Nazi Germany in March 1938, Ida decided to leave the country for the United States. She sailed for New York City aboard a Norddeutscher Lloyd ship, the Columbus, which departed from Bremen, Germany, on September 15, 1938.