Hendel and Weissman families collection

Identifier: irn556076
Language of Description: English
Level of Description: Collection
Source: EHRI Partner

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Acquisition

The collection was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2016 by Tamar Hendel Fishman.

Scope and Content

The collection consists of a Girl Scout pin and sash, documents, and photographs relating to the experiences of the Hendel and Weissman families in Yugoslavia before the Holocaust and as refugees in Croatia, Italy, and Fort Ontario, New York during and after the Holocaust.

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Hendel and Weissman families papers
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn552706
- English
- box oversize folder 1 1
- Updated 1 year ago
The collection documents the Holocaust experiences of Eisig and Hana (née Weissman) Hendel and their children David and Rut (later Tamar) of Zagreb, Yugoslavia (present day Zagreb, Croatia). Included are identification papers, immigration documents, financial papers, and photographs that document their escape from Zagreb to Rovigo and Rome, Italy, and their experiences as refugees at the Fort Ontario Emergency Refugee Shelter in Oswego, New York. There are also pre-war photographs of the Hendel and Weissman families in Zagreb.
Embroidered Girl Scout uniform sash and membership pin owned by a Jewish Yugoslavian girl
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn556077
- English
- a: Height: 42.250 inches (107.315 cm) | Width: 6.125 inches (15.558 cm) b: Height: 0.875 inches (2.223 cm) | Width: 0.875 inches (2.223 cm) | Depth: 0.250 inches (0.635 cm)
- Updated 1 year ago
Green Girl Scout sash with embroidered gold trefoils and gold colored trefoil pin owned by Rut Hendel (later Tamar Hendel-Fishman) in Oswego, New York, between 1944-1946. Rut was a young girl living in Zagreb, Yugoslavia, with her parents and older brother, David, when Germany and Italy, supported by their allies, invaded. Zagreb was made the capital of the German puppet state, the Independent Sate of Croatia. The ruling party, called the Ustaša, persecuted and murdered ethnic Serbs and Jews, forcing Rut’s family to flee to the Italian occupied zone. After the Ustaša murdered Rut’s uncle an...

Hendel and Weissman families collection

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Hendel and Weissman families papers

Embroidered Girl Scout uniform sash and membership pin owned by a Jewish Yugoslavian girl