Overview
- Description
- Austrian passport: rectangular form consisting of 48 pages, typed and handwritten text, black and white photographic image of woman, and postal and ink stamps throughout; issued to Ida Weiss on June 8, 1928, No. 403982.
- Date
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1928 June 08
- Credit Line
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Anahid Iskian
Physical Details
- Genre/Form
- Passports.
- Extent
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1 folder
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
- Topical Term
- Refugees, Jewish.
- Geographic Name
- Austria--Emigration and immigration--History--20th century.
- Personal Name
- Weiss, Ida.
Administrative Notes
- Holder of Originals
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United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- Legal Status
- Permanent Collection
- Provenance
- The passport was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2004 by Anahid Iskian.
- Record last modified:
- 2023-02-24 14:11:57
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Also in Ida Weiss collection
The collection consists of a steamer trunk and a passport relating to the experiences of Ida Weiss before the Holocaust in Vienna, Austria, and during her emigration to the United States in 1938.
Date: 1928 June 08-1938 September 15
Black flat top steamer trunk used by a Jewish Austrian refugee
Object
Trunk used by Ida Weiss during her journey from Austria to the United States in 1938. Ida was a Czech Jew who lived in Vienna with her daughter, Louisa. After Austria was annexed by Nazi Germany in March 1938, Ida decided to leave the country for the United States. She sailed for New York City aboard a Norddeutscher Lloyd ship, the Columbus, which departed from Bremen, Germany, on September 15, 1938.
