Levy and Weinschenk families collection

Identifier: irn71183
Language of Description: English
Level of Description: Collection
Source: EHRI Partner

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https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn71183

Acquisition

The collection was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2013 and 2018 by Carol Weinschenk Opton and Joshua J. Vlasto, the daughter and grandson of Margot and Paul Weinschenk.

Scope and Content

The collection consists of a folding knife, correspondence, documents, photographs, and publications relating to the experiences of the Levy family and Paul and Margot Weinschenk before, during, and after World War II in Germany and the United States.

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Displaying items 1 to 11 of 11

Metal box with key
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn597345
- English
- a: Height: 2.750 inches (6.985 cm) | Width: 6.000 inches (15.24 cm) | Depth: 4.000 inches (10.16 cm) b: Height: 1.380 inches (3.505 cm) | Width: 5.750 inches (14.605 cm) | Depth: 3.250 inches (8.255 cm) c: Height: 1.630 inches (4.14 cm) | Diameter: 0.880 inches (2.235 cm)
- Updated 7 months ago
Metal box with key. Painted green on the outside and red on the inside. There is a detachable tray for smaller items that fits inside the box, as well as a key. A label on the outside of the box reads "Propylden-Muller/Munchen 2 Lenbochplatz7" with the image of a building and the additional words "Wilheim Muller/Buro-Bedart Papierwaren.
Prayer book
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn600414
- English
- Updated 7 months ago
Prayer book brought with Paul and Margot Levi Weinschenk when they fled Nuremberg, Germany, for the United States in 1939.
Book
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn600890
- English
- Updated 7 months ago
Book on Winsbach, Germany, brought with Paul and Margot Levi Weinschenk when they fled Nuremberg, Germany, for the United States in 1939.
Cookbook for three and more people
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn605230
- English
- Updated 7 months ago
Cook book brought with Paul and Margot Levi Weinschenk when they fled Nuremberg, Germany, for the United States in 1939.
Cookbook
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn606048
- English
- Updated 7 months ago
cookbook brought with Paul and Margot Levi Weinschenk when they fled Nuremberg, Germany, for the United States in 1939.
Three ribbon bars on a service certificate awarded posthumously for a US soldier
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn607415
- English
- overall: Height: 14.000 inches (35.56 cm) | Width: 12.000 inches (30.48 cm)
- Updated 7 months ago
Serice recognition certificate signed by President Truman in memory of Walter Lane (Levy) who fell during his service in Germany.
Weinschenk and Levi families papers
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn607903
- English
- 1888-1942
- box oversize folder 1 1
- Updated 7 months ago
The Weinschenk and Levi family papers primarily contain biographical material, correspondence, and photographs related to the Weinschenk and Levi families in Stuttgart and Nuremberg, Germany prior to immigrating to the United States to escape Nazi persecution. Biographical materials include genealogical research, passports, driver’s licenses, and a document stating that Margot Weinschenk had been dropped from the voter registry because she is not of Aryan descent, 1936. Correspondence includes letters from Margot and Paul Weinschenk in New York to his sister Lilly and her husband Sigmund Ka...
Folding pocket knife owned by a Jewish family who fled Germany
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn609625
- English
- overall: Height: 3.250 inches (8.255 cm) | Width: 0.500 inches (1.27 cm)
- Updated 7 months ago
Folding pocket knife brought with Paul and Margot Levi Weinschenk when they fled Nuremberg, Germany, for the United States in 1939.
Levy and Weinschenk families papers
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn611758
- English
- folders 2
- Updated 7 months ago
Contains documents concerning the immigration of Paul and Margot Weinschenk (donor's parents) from Nuremberg, Germany to the United States in 1939.
Prayer book
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn611767
- English
- 1870
- Updated 7 months ago
Festtägliches Gebetbuch, German and Hebrew language prayer book published in 1870.
Oral history interview with Lily Weinschenk Kohnstamm
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn76090
- English
- 1981
- 1 CD, WAV
- Updated 7 months ago