Helen Mermelstein and Esther Mermelstein Weiss papers
Extent and Medium
folder
1
Creator(s)
- Esther M. Weiss
Archival History
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Acquisition
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Judith Weiss
Funding Note: The accessibility of this collection was made possible by the generous donors to our crowdfunded Save Their Stories campaign.
The Helen Mermelstein and Esther Mermelstein Weiss papers were donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum by Judith Weiss in 2014.
Scope and Content
The collection includes a journal, documents, and photographs illustrating the experiences of sisters Esther and Helen (b. 1918) Mermelstein, born in Cinadievo, Czechoslovakia (currently Ukraine) and deported to the Munkacs ghetto in April 1944. In June 1944 they were sent to a series of concentration camps including Auschwitz, munitions factory Christianstadt, a sub-camp of Gross Rosen, in Poland, and Bergen-Belsen in Germany where they were liberated. They were then sent to Karlstad, Sweden to recuperate. The journal is a multi-page letter from Helen to brother Heshkel [Alexander] and the photographs were taken pre-war in Sweden.
Conditions Governing Reproduction
Copyright Holder: Ms. Judith Weiss
People
- Mermelstein Weiss, Esther.
- Esther M. Weiss
- Mermelstein, Helen.
Corporate Bodies
Subjects
- Poland.
- Germany.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives.
- Karlstad (Sweden)
- Ukraine.
Genre
- Diaries.
- Photographs.
- Document