George Weissberg papers
Extent and Medium
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Archival History
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Acquisition
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of George Weissberg
The papers were donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 1998 by George Weissberg.
Scope and Content
The papers consist of a postcard written by Geogette Cattan [donor's aunt] in Drancy concentration camp to her fiancé, Louis de Michel, in Marseilles, France, the day before she was deported to Auschwitz where she perished, two identification cards ("Carte d'Identite") issued to Aimee Cattan [donor's mother] during the Holocaust in France, a photocopy of an identification card ("Carte de Deporte Politique") issued to Aimee Cattan stating that she was a political prisoner, and a photocopy of a repatriation card ("Carte de Repatrie") issued to Aimee Cattan as a displaced person.
People
- Weissberg, Aimee Cattan.
- Cattan, Georgette.
Corporate Bodies
- Drancy (Internament camp)
Subjects
- World War, 1939-1945--Deportations from France.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--France.
- Concentration camp inmates' writings--France--Drancy.
- Jews--France--History--20th century.
Genre
- Identification cards.
- Postcards.
- Document