Overview
- Description
- Collection of documents, photographs, and correspondence relating to Dorrit Wasservogel Wellerson (donor’s late wife), born in Vienna, Austria in 1923, and her parents Marcel and Klara Wasservogel. The Wasservogel family left Austria on August 20, 1939 for India. On September 1, 1939 the war broke out and they were trapped in Naples, Italy not being able to proceed. They later moved to Rome, but in 1940 they were placed in internment camp in Atripalda in Forino, Italy, not far from Naples. From October 1943 Forino was under Allied control. In July 1944 the Wasservogel family joined approximatelty 1,000 other refguees who came to the Fort Ontario Emergency Refugee Shelter in Oswego, NY. In 1946 the Oswego refugees were allowed to apply for US citizenship. Dorrit’s maternal grandmother Marie Wiener was deported to Theresienstadt in June 1942 and three months later she was deported to the Treblinka death camp.
- Credit Line
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Roy B. Wellerson This gift is made in memory of his wife Dorrit Wasservogel Wellerson
Physical Details
- Genre/Form
- Letters. Photographs.
- Extent
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5 folders
Rights & Restrictions
- Conditions on Access
- There are no known restrictions on access to this material.
- Conditions on Use
- Material(s) in this collection may be protected by copyright and/or related rights. You do not require further permission from the Museum to use this material. The user is solely responsible for making a determination as to if and how the material may be used.
Keywords & Subjects
- Geographic Name
- Oswego (N.Y.) Italy.
- Corporate Name
- Fort Ontario Emergency Refugee Shelter (U.S.)
Administrative Notes
- Holder of Originals
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United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- Legal Status
- Permanent Collection
- Provenance
- Dorrit Wassevogel married Roy Wellerson in 1957. After Dorrit’s death in 2012, her husband discovered all the materials in a box in her closet. Collection donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2015 by Roy Wellerson.
- Record last modified:
- 2023-07-12 10:25:45
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