Agnes Vertes collection
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Archival History
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Acquisition
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Agnes Vertes
The collection was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2007 by Agnes Vertes.
Scope and Content
Collection of photographs, documents, and correspondence relating to the Weisz family [donor's husband's family] in Hungary before and during the Holocaust. Includes correspondence between Imre Weisz [donor's husband's father] and his wife, Dora, and son Miklos [donor's husband], while he was in a forced labor battlion from which he did not return and was presumed killed in 1943. Also included are safe conduct passes issued by the Swiss government for Miklos, Dora, and her mother, as well as documents concerning efforts of relatives in Cleveland, Ohio, to apply for affidavits of support for Weisz family as early as 1938.
Subjects
- United States--Emigration and immigration.
- Hungary.
Genre
- Photographs.
- Passport.
- Document