Weidhorn family collection

Identifier
irn736561
Language of Description
English
Level of Description
Collection
Source
EHRI Partner

Acquisition

The colleciton was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2022 by Manfred Weidhorn.

Scope and Content

The collection documents the Holocaust-era experiences of Manfred Weidhorn and his parents Anne and Aron Weidhorn, including their flight from Vienna, Austria after the German-annexation of Austria in March 1938, Aron’s immigration to the United States in 1939, and Manfred and his mother’s immigration to the United States via Cuba in 1941. Included are biographical and identification documents, records related to Aron’s fur businesses in Europe and the United States, immigration paperwork, photographs, correspondence, a diary kept by Aron in 1940, shortly after his arrival in the U.S., children's books, travel dictionaries, and an interview with the donor's mother, Chana Weidhorn (audiocassettes).

Genre

This description is derived directly from structured data provided to EHRI by a partner institution. This collection holding institution considers this description as an accurate reflection of the archival holdings to which it refers at the moment of data transfer.