Bernhard Wiesenfeld Collection
Acquisition
The collection was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2015 by Vivian "Putzi" Wesson Hirshberg, the daughter of Bernhard Wiesenfeld (Bernard Wesson).
Scope and Content
The collection consists of correspondence, documents, and photographs from Bernhard Wiesenfeld (father of donor) and his family, dating from his youth in Galicia, through his years in Austria, his immigration to England, and his subsequent immigration to the United States. Documents include letters sent while he was interned at Camp Kitchener in England in 1939, and designs for inventions he created in the United States after his immigration in 1940. The collection also includes a cigarette lighter and a compact that he invented.
Genre
- Collection
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