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Dartmouth Red ski wax owned by a German Jewish refugee

Object | Accession Number: 2004.485.44

Round bar of ski wax owned by Carl Weiler after he emigrated to the United States from Nazi Germany in December 1937. Karl lost his position as an assistant judge in March 1933 when the new Nazi government purged the civil service of Jews and passed a law to that effect April 7 with the first Aryan only qualification clause. Karl rejoined the family agricultural firm in Brakel. Anti-Jewish pressures increased and, in May 1936, the firm’s board of directors was forced to sell the business at a loss to a Nazi approved buyer. In December 1937, Karl left for the US. After the war ended in May 1945, he learned that his parents, Fritz and Ella, had been deported to Theresienstadt ghetto-labor camp in 1942, then in 1944 to Auschwitz killing center where they were murdered. His sister, Mathilde Fodor, had been deported from Budapest, Hungary, in November 1944 to Lichtenworth concentration camp where she died of starvation. Her husband, Joszi, and son, Karoly, survived.

Date
received:  after 1938
Geography
manufacture: Hanover (N.H.)
Language
English
Category
Sports equipment
Object Type
Ski waxes (lcsh)
Credit Line
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Judy Gartner and Susan Oberfeld
 
Record last modified: 2022-07-28 18:28:43
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