Rochelle Weithorn photograph collection

Identifier
irn523559
Language of Description
English
Alt. Identifiers
  • 1999.252.1
Dates
1 Jan 1946 - 31 Dec 1949
Level of Description
Item
Source
EHRI Partner

Extent and Medium

folder

1

Creator(s)

Biographical History

Rochelle Weithorn was born on June 4, 1948, in Torino (Turin), Italy. Her father, David Weithorn, was born in 1906 in Lubaczów, Poland. Her mother, Hella Edelbaum Weithorn was born on Aug. 20, 1918, in Gąbin, Poland, near Łódź. David and Hella had difficult experiences during the war and both left Poland immediately after the war. They met in Vienna, Austria and married there in 1946. Soon after their wedding, they were moved to the Gruliasco DP camp. Their son, Victor Weithorn, was born in the DP camp on May 13, 1947. In April 1950 the Weithorn family immigrated to the United States. Hella and David Weithorn also had three children born in the United States: Anita (b. 1952), Gloria (b. 1953), and Mark (b.1957).

Archival History

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Acquisition

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Rochelle Weithorn

The photograph collection was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum by Rochelle Weithorn in 1999.

Scope and Content

The collection consists of 28 photographs of David Weithorn, Hella Edelbaum Weithorn, and their children, Rochelle and Victor, in the Gruliasco displaced persons camp in Turin, Italy.

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This description is derived directly from structured data provided to EHRI by a partner institution. This collection holding institution considers this description as an accurate reflection of the archival holdings to which it refers at the moment of data transfer.