Sam and Susan Weiss collection
Extent and Medium
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Archival History
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Acquisition
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Renee Weiss
Funding Note: The cataloging of this collection has been supported by a grant from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.
Renee Weiss donated the Sam and Susan Weiss collection to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in February 2011.
Scope and Content
The Sam and Susan Weiss collection consists of documents and photographs related to the pre-war and post-war lives of Salomon (Sam) Weiss and Zuzana Lehrmanova (later Susan Weiss), both originally of Uzhorod, Czechoslovakia. The collection includes citizenship documents, identification documents, and immigration documents. The photographs include members of the Weiss family and the Lehrmanova family, most of whom did not survive the Holocaust.
System of Arrangement
The Sam and Susan Weiss collection is arranged in a single series.
People
- Lehrmanova, Zuzana.
- Weiss, Susan.
- Weiss, Salomon.
- Weiss, Sam.
Subjects
- Uzhorod (Czechoslovakia)
- Displaced persons--Europe.
- Families.
- World War, 1939-1945--Refugees.
- Holocaust survivors.
- Holocaust victims.
- Wedding.
- Czechoslovakia.
Genre
- Identification documents.
- Passports.
- Photographs.
- Document