Helen Mermelstein and Esther Mermelstein Weiss collection
Collection
- 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.
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1945-1961
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Record last modified: 2022-07-28 18:27:10
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Helen Mermelstein and Esther Mermelstein Weiss papers
Document | Accession Number: 2014.471.1
Dinner knife used by sisters who were interned in a series of concentration camps
Object | Accession Number: 2014.471.2
