Zehngut and Weiss families collection
Acquisition
The collection was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2018 by Tina Michaels Coverman.
Scope and Content
Documents, correspondence, and photographs concerning the Zehngut and Weiss families in Europe; papers concerning the emigration of Inge and Kitty Weiss among the 50 Children rescued from Vienna by Brith Sholom and Gilbert and Eleanor Kraus as well as the emigration of their parents Stella Zehngut Weiss and Leon Weiss; and related materials from their lives in the United States including school records, government documents, a draft of a memoir written by Inge, and a Camp Ray-Oot swimming medal.
Genre
- Collection