Helen Mermelstein and Esther Mermelstein Weiss collection

Overview

Collection Summary

The collection consist of a knife, documents, a journal, and photographs relating to the experiences of Esther and Helen Mermelstein, sisters, before and during the Holocaust when they were deported from Cinadievo, Czechoslovakia, to Munkacs Ghetto, and then to a series of concentration camps until liberated in Bergen Belsen and after the Holocaust in Karlstad, Sweden.

Provenance

The collection was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2014 by Judith Weiss.