Rita Tewel Newberg Weiger collection

Identifier: irn71181
Language of Description: English
Level of Description: Collection
Source: EHRI Partner

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https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn71181

Acquisition

The collection was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2013 by Jamie Phillips and Lisa Phillips, granddaughters of Rita Newberg Weiger.

Scope and Content

The collection consists of two luggage tags, a trunk, documents, an oral history compact disc, and photographs relating to the experiences of Ryfka Tewel before the Holocaust in Bartkowka, Poland, and the United States, and after the Holocaust in the United States.

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Brown Fibrolin trunk used by a Polish Jewish prewar emigre
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn86127
- English
- overall: Height: 8.250 inches (20.955 cm) | Width: 29.500 inches (74.93 cm) | Depth: 16.250 inches (41.275 cm)
- Updated 1 year ago
Brown trunk used by 28 year old Ryfka (Rita) Tewel when she left Bartkowka, Poland, for the United States in July 1938. Ryfka's US visa was sponsored by a maternal aunt and her husband in Pittsburgh, and Ryfka settled there. In 1941, Rita married Benjamin Newberg, who agreed to help bring her brother and four sisters to the United States. They sent money to Rita’s siblings, but never heard from them again. On September 1, 1939, Nazi Germany invaded Poland. The war ended with Germany's surrender on May 7, 1945. During the German occupation, at least three million Jewish citizens of Poland we...
Rita Newberg Weiger papers
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn86128
- English
- folder 1
- Updated 1 year ago
The collection includes a passport for Ryfka Tewel (Rita Newberg Weiger), photographs, correspondence from relatives in DP camps in Germany which describe the fate of the family and Polish Jews in the Dynow area, shipping documents, and a poem written by Jaime Phillips in honor of her grandmother.
Oral history interview with Rita Newberg Weiger and Morris Weiger
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn86130
- English
- 1994
- 1 sound recording, WAV
- Updated 1 year ago
Cunard White Star red oval luggage label used by a Polish Jewish prewar emigre
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn86176
- English
- overall: Height: 4.000 inches (10.16 cm) | Width: 6.125 inches (15.558 cm)
- Updated 1 year ago
Cunard White Star luggage label used by 28 year old Ryfka (Rita) Tewel when she left Bartkowka, Poland, for the United States in July 1938. Ryfka's US visa was sponsored by a maternal aunt and her husband in Pittsburgh, and Ryfka settled there. In 1941, Rita married Benjamin Newberg, who agreed to help bring her brother and four sisters to the United States. They sent money to Rita’s siblings, but never heard from them again. On September 1, 1939, Nazi Germany invaded Poland. The war ended with Germany's surrender on May 7, 1945. During the German occupation, at least three million Jewish c...
Cunard White Star blue luggage tag used by a Polish Jewish prewar emigre
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn86179
- English
- overall: Height: 3.125 inches (7.938 cm) | Width: 6.250 inches (15.875 cm)
- Updated 1 year ago
Cunard White Star blue luggage tag used by 28 year old Ryfka (Rita) Tewel when she left Bartkowka, Poland, for the United States in July 1938. Ryfka's US visa was sponsored by a maternal aunt and her husband in Pittsburgh, and Ryfka settled there. In 1941, Rita married Benjamin Newberg, who agreed to help bring her brother and four sisters to the United States. They sent money to Rita’s siblings, but never heard from them again. On September 1, 1939, Nazi Germany invaded Poland. The war ended with Germany's surrender on May 7, 1945. During the German occupation, at least three million Jewis...

Rita Tewel Newberg Weiger collection

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Brown Fibrolin trunk used by a Polish Jewish prewar emigre

Rita Newberg Weiger papers

Oral history interview with Rita Newberg Weiger and Morris Weiger

Cunard White Star red oval luggage label used by a Polish Jewish prewar emigre

Cunard White Star blue luggage tag used by a Polish Jewish prewar emigre