Overview
- Brief Narrative
- M. Hohner Chromonica II Deluxe with matching case, which had belonged to Max Wekselman while living as a displaced person in Munich. Edith Blogier Wechselman (Max Wekselman's mother) and her brother Abraham Blogier were the only survivors of their immediate families. Abraham survived the Bedzin ghetto and subsequent transfer through multiple concentration camps, including Auschwitz, before his liberation at Dachau. In summer 1945, Abraham was reunited in Germany with his sister Edith and her son Max who had escaped the Bedzin ghetto and had survived in hiding through the aid of Polish women Edith had befriended. Edith's husband, Ben Wechselman, also survived the Holocaust and was liberated at Dachau with Abraham. Until 1949, the family lived in Munich where Max went to school and became active in the local Maccabi youth soccer team. In 1949, Abraham, Edith, Max, and Ben immigrated to the United States, eventually settling in Cleveland.
- Title
- Harmonica
- Credit Line
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum collection, gift of Mark and Roz Blogier
Physical Details
- Classification
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Personal Equipment and Supplies
- Category
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Musical instruments
- Object Type
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Harmonica (lcsh)
- Physical Description
- M. Hohner Chromonica II Deluxe harmonica (a) with matching red and gold case (b).
- Dimensions
- a: Height: 1.250 inches (3.175 cm) | Width: 6.500 inches (16.51 cm) | Depth: 1.500 inches (3.81 cm)
b: Height: 1.500 inches (3.81 cm) | Width: 7.000 inches (17.78 cm) | Depth: 2.250 inches (5.715 cm) - Materials
- a : metal
b : cardboard, metal, paper, cloth
Rights & Restrictions
- Conditions on Access
- No restrictions on access
- Conditions on Use
- No restrictions on use
Administrative Notes
- Legal Status
- Permanent Collection
- Provenance
- The harmonica and case were donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2019 from Mark and Rosalyn Blogier, the children of Abraham Blogier and Betty Wides Blogier.
- Record last modified:
- 2023-02-23 16:53:27
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- https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn709385
Also in Blogier, Wekselman, and Wides families collection
The collection consists of photographs, documents, correspondence, newspaper clippings, scrapbooks, and a pair of youth soccer cleats pertaining to the experiences of the Blogier, Wides, and Wechselman families. Abraham Blogier and his sister Edith Blogier Wechselman were the only survivors of their immediate families. Abraham survived the Bedzin ghetto and subsequent transfer through multiple concentration camps, including Auschwitz, before his liberation at Dachau. In summer 1945, Abraham was reunited in Germany with his sister Edith and her son Max who had escaped the Bedzin ghetto and had survived in hiding through the aid of Polish women Edith had befriended. Edith's husband, Ben Wechselman, also survived the Holocaust and was liberated at Dachau with Abraham. Until 1949, the family lived in Munich where Max went to school and became active in the local Maccabi youth soccer team. In 1949, Abraham, Edith, Max, and Ben immigrated to the United States. They settled in Cleveland where Abraham met and married Betty Wides, a fellow Holocaust survivor from Lithuania. The collection also includes a harmonica with matching case. The harmonica had belonged to Max Wekselman while living as a displaced person in Munich.
Blogier, Wekselman, and Wides families papers
Document
The collection includes documents and photographs documenting the pre-war and post-war experiences of the Blogier and Wekselman families, originally of Bedzin, Poland, and the Wides family, originally of Ukmerge, Lithuania. The collection primarily documents the Blogier and Wekselman families’ time as displaced persons in Germany after the war and as immigrants to the United States. Documents include Abraham Blogier’s paperwork related his time as a displaced person in Mindelheim, Germany, immigration to the United States, two letters, and restitution; Betty Wides Blogier’s ticket for her passage to the United States aboard the SS Marine Flasher in 1946; newspaper clippings regarding Max Wekselman’s illness; and post-war Polish receipts of Edith Wekselman. Photographs include pre-war depictions of the Wekselman and Wides families in Bedzin and Ukmerge, post-war depictions of Max playing soccer in the Maccabi youth soccer league in Germany. Also included are a photograph album and scrapbook assembled by Max primarily documenting his involvement with Maccabi. They include photographs, clippings, and his Moosach-Hartmannshofen membership card. The scrapbook also includes two pins pinned into a page. Also included is a photograph attached to a glass portion of a picture frame depicting an unidentified young man.
Pair of soccer cleats
Object
Pair of youth soccer cleats, part of a collection pertaining to the experiences of the Blogier, Wides, and Wechselman families. Abraham Blogier and his sister Edith Blogier Wechselman were the only survivors of their immediate families. Abraham survived the Bedzin ghetto and subsequent transfer through multiple concentration camps, including Auschwitz, before his liberation at Dachau. In summer 1945, Abraham was reunited in Germany with his sister Edith and her son Max who had escaped the Bedzin ghetto and had survived in hiding through the aid of Polish women Edith had befriended. Edith's husband, Ben Wechselman, also survived the Holocaust and was liberated at Dachau with Abraham. Until 1949, the family lived in Munich where Max went to school and became active in the local Maccabi youth soccer team. In 1949, Abraham, Edith, Max, and Ben immigrated to the United States. They settled in Cleveland where Abraham met and married Betty Wides, a fellow Holocaust survivor from Lithuania.
