Blogier, Wekselman, and Wides families collection

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn693973
• English
• a: Height: 5.500 inches (13.97 cm) | Width: 3.500 inches (8.89 cm) | Depth: 10.500 inches (26.67 cm) b: Height: 5.500 inches (13.97 cm) | Width: 3.500 inches (8.89 cm) | Depth: 10.500 inches (26.67 cm)
• Updated 7 months ago

Pair of youth soccer cleats, part of a collection pertaining to the experiences of the Blogier, Wides, and Wechselman families. Abraham Blogier and his sister Edith Blogier Wechselman 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 ...

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn709385
• English
• a: Height: 1.250 inches (3.175 cm) | Width: 6.500 inches (16.51 cm) | Depth: 1.500 inches (3.81 cm) b: Height: 1.500 inches (3.81 cm) | Width: 7.000 inches (17.78 cm) | Depth: 2.250 inches (5.715 cm)
• Updated 7 months ago

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...

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn714670
• English
• 1945-1969
• folders book enclosure oversize box 12 1 1
• Updated 7 months ago

The collection includes documents and photographs documenting the pre-war and post-war experiences of the Blogier and Wekselman families, originally of Bedzin, Poland, and the Wides family, originally of Ukmerge, Lithuania. The collection primarily documents the Blogier and Wekselman families’ time as displaced persons in Germany after the war and as immigrants to the United States. Documents include Abraham Blogier’s paperwork related his time as a displaced person in Mindelheim, Germany, immigration to the United States, two letters, and restitution; Betty Wides Blogier’s ticket for her p...