Harmonica with case

M. Hohner Chromonica II Deluxe with matching case, which had belonged to Max Wekselman while living as a displaced person in Munich. Edith Blogier Wechselman (Max Wekselman's mother) and her brother Abraham Blogier were the only survivors of their immediate families. Abraham survived the Bedzin ghetto and subsequent transfer through multiple concentration camps, including Auschwitz, before his liberation at Dachau. In summer 1945, Abraham was reunited in Germany with his sister Edith and her son Max who had escaped the Bedzin ghetto and had survived in hiding through the aid of Polish women Edith had befriended. Edith's husband, Ben Wechselman, also survived the Holocaust and was liberated at Dachau with Abraham. Until 1949, the family lived in Munich where Max went to school and became active in the local Maccabi youth soccer team. In 1949, Abraham, Edith, Max, and Ben immigrated to the United States, eventually settling in Cleveland.