Izak and Marthe Weber collection
Acquisition
The collection was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2014 by Pauline Heifetz.
Scope and Content
Documents, correspondence, photographs and an oral history illustrating the experiences, primarily of Izak Weber, born in Skole, Poland in 1910, who studied medicine in Paris and remained there through WWII. Included in the collection are numerous documents surrounding Izak's medical education and intern work in Paris, his eventual internment in Drancy transit camp in December 1942 near Paris from which he escaped, marriage documentation and identification cards for Izak and his wife Marte, as well as documentation to practice medicine in Argentina after the war and correspondence from family in Skole, Poland to Izak in Paris in 1942.
Genre
- Collection