Werner Meyerstein and Ruth Echt collection

Identifier: irn677531
Language of Description: English
Level of Description: Collection
Source: EHRI Partner

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https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn677531

Acquisition

The collection was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2019 by Taly Furer, the granddaughter of Werner Meyerstein.

Scope and Content

The collection consists of newspaper clippings, documents, photographs, butcher's certificate, identification cards, immigration documents and passport documenting the experiences of Werner Meyerstein and his family in Germany and Sosua. The collection also includes documentation, passport, immigration papers and other identification from Germany and Shanghai belonging to Ruth Echt. In addition, the collection includes a glazed ceramic cup with handle.

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Meyerstein and Echt families papers
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn677667
- English
- 1930-1983
- box oversize folders 1 4
- Updated 7 months ago
The collection documents the Holocaust-era experiences of the Meyerstein family, originally of Bremke, Germany, including Werner Meyerstein and his father Hermann Meyerstein’s flight from Göttingen, Germany in 1939 to London, Werner and his wife Olga Sofie’s immigration to Sosúa, Dominican Republic in 1940, and his father’s immigration with his second wife Emma Marx to Sosúa in 1942. The collection also documents the experiences of Werner’s second wife, Ruth Echt, whose family fled Gross-Kuhren (Primorye, Kaliningrad Oblast, Russia) in 1939 for Shanghai, where they survived the Holocaust. T...
Cup
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn677668
- English
- overall: Height: 5.250 inches (13.335 cm) | Width: 1.130 inches (2.87 cm) | Depth: 5.500 inches (13.97 cm)
- Updated 7 months ago
Glazed ceramic cup with handle.

Werner Meyerstein and Ruth Echt collection

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Meyerstein and Echt families papers

Cup