Helene Weisenberg collection

Identifier
irn548855
Language of Description
English
Alt. Identifiers
  • 1994.17
Level of Description
Item
Languages
  • German
  • Czech
Source
EHRI Partner

Web Source

https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn548855

Extent and Medium

folder

1

Creator(s)

  • Helene Weisenberg

Archival History

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Acquisition

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Helene Weisenberg

Donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 1994 by Helen Wiesenberg.

Scope and Content

Contains materials related to Helene Wiesenberg (donor) and her experiences in the Theresienstadt Ghetto. Includes ration cards, work certificates stating that she participated in the delousing of arriving convoys, examples of camp scrip, and documentation granting her permission to leave Terezin in June 1945. Also includes a typewritten poem, dated March 1945, apparently written in observance of Passover Seder in Theresienstadt.

Corporate Bodies

Subjects

  • Terezín (Ústecký kraj, Czech Republic)

Genre

  • Poetry.
  • Scrip.
  • Identification cards.
  • Document
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