Rotenberg and Weiss families photograph collection

Identifier
irn548871
Language of Description
English
Alt. Identifiers
  • 1993.57
Dates
1 Jan 1940 - 31 Dec 1940
Level of Description
Item
Languages
  • Polish
  • Yiddish
Source
EHRI Partner

Web Source

https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn548871

Extent and Medium

folder

1

Creator(s)

  • Weiss family
  • Jack Roth

Biographical History

Jack Roth (born Rotenberg) served as a Lieutenant in the Polish Army prior to World War II. After the Nazi invasion of Poland, he joined the Warsaw underground. Facing arrest by the Gestapo, he fled to Italy and joined the Italian underground. After the war, he immigrated to the United States.

The Weiss family lived in Plonsk, Poland. Samuel Weiss married Rachel Weiss. They had five children: Sarah Weiss, Regina Weiss, Max Weiss, David Weiss, and Adolph Weiss. Samuel Weiss became ill and died before the Holocaust. Rachel Weiss and Sarah Weiss perished during the Holocaust. Max Weiss, David Weiss, and Adolph Weiss arrived in the United States via Argentina in the early 1940s. Regina Weiss survived Auschwitz concentration camp and Dachau concentration camp. She immigrated to the United States after the war, where she met and married Jack Roth.

Archival History

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Acquisition

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Barbara Roth

Funding Note: The cataloging of this collection has been supported by a grant from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.

Barbara Roth donated the Rotenberg and Weiss families photograph collection to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 1993.

Scope and Content

The Rotenberg and Weiss families photograph collection consists of photographs of the Rotenberg (later Roth) and Weiss families before and during World War II. The photographs includes images of Jack Roth in his Polish Army uniform before the war, including one of a group photograph of soldiers seated at a table set for a Passover Seder. A studio portrait of the Weiss family in Plonsk, Poland, undated, including Samuel Weiss and Rachel Weiss, and their five children: Sarah Weiss, Regina Weiss, Max Weiss, David Weiss, and Adolph Weiss.

System of Arrangement

The Rotenberg and Weiss family photographs are arranged in a single series.

People

  • Weiss, Rachel.
  • Weiss, Max.
  • Weiss, Regina.
  • Weiss, Adolph.
  • Weiss, Samuel.
  • Weiss, Sarah.
  • Weiss, David.
  • Roth, Jack.

Subjects

Genre

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.