Overview
- Interviewee
- Morris Weiger
Rita R. Weiger - Interviewer
- Ms. Lisa B. Phillips
Ms. Jamie L. Phillips - Date
-
interview:
1984
interview: 1994
- Credit Line
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Jamie Phillips and Lisa Phillips, in memory of their grandparents, Morris and Rita Newberg Weiger, and their mother, Harriet Newberg Phillips
Physical Details
- Language
- English
- Extent
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1 sound recording : WAV.
Administrative Notes
- Legal Status
- Permanent Collection
- Provenance
- Lisa and Jamie Phillips donated their oral history interviews with Rita Newberg Weiger and Morris Weiger to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2013.
- Special Collection
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The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
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- 2022-07-28 20:11:46
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Also in Rita Tewel Newberg Weiger collection
The collection consists of two luggage tags, a trunk, documents, an oral history compact disc, and photographs relating to the experiences of Ryfka Tewel before the Holocaust in Bartkowka, Poland, and the United States, and after the Holocaust in the United States.
Date: 1938-approximately 1994
Rita Newberg Weiger papers
Document
The collection includes a passport for Ryfka Tewel (Rita Newberg Weiger), photographs, correspondence from relatives in DP camps in Germany which describe the fate of the family and Polish Jews in the Dynow area, shipping documents, and a poem written by Jaime Phillips in honor of her grandmother.
Brown Fibrolin trunk used by a Polish Jewish prewar emigre
Object
Brown trunk used by 28 year old Ryfka (Rita) Tewel when she left Bartkowka, Poland, for the United States in July 1938. Ryfka's US visa was sponsored by a maternal aunt and her husband in Pittsburgh, and Ryfka settled there. In 1941, Rita married Benjamin Newberg, who agreed to help bring her brother and four sisters to the United States. They sent money to Rita’s siblings, but never heard from them again. On September 1, 1939, Nazi Germany invaded Poland. The war ended with Germany's surrender on May 7, 1945. During the German occupation, at least three million Jewish citizens of Poland were murdered. Rita believed her family members were killed in a concentration camp.
Cunard White Star red oval luggage label used by a Polish Jewish prewar emigre
Object
Cunard White Star luggage label used by 28 year old Ryfka (Rita) Tewel when she left Bartkowka, Poland, for the United States in July 1938. Ryfka's US visa was sponsored by a maternal aunt and her husband in Pittsburgh, and Ryfka settled there. In 1941, Rita married Benjamin Newberg, who agreed to help bring her brother and four sisters to the United States. They sent money to Rita’s siblings, but never heard from them again. On September 1, 1939, Nazi Germany invaded Poland. The war ended with Germany's surrender on May 7, 1945. During the German occupation, at least three million Jewish citizens of Poland were murdered. Rita believed her family members were killed in a concentration camp.
Cunard White Star blue luggage tag used by a Polish Jewish prewar emigre
Object
Cunard White Star blue luggage tag used by 28 year old Ryfka (Rita) Tewel when she left Bartkowka, Poland, for the United States in July 1938. Ryfka's US visa was sponsored by a maternal aunt and her husband in Pittsburgh, and Ryfka settled there. In 1941, Rita married Benjamin Newberg, who agreed to help bring her brother and four sisters to the United States. They sent money to Rita’s siblings, but never heard from them again. On September 1, 1939, Nazi Germany invaded Poland. The war ended with Germany's surrender on May 7, 1945. During the German occupation, at least three million Jewish citizens of Poland were murdered. Rita believed her family members were killed in a concentration camp.
