Weidhorn family collection

The collection documents the Holocaust-era experiences of Manfred Weidhorn and his parents Anne and Aron Weidhorn, including their flight from Vienna, Austria after the German-annexation of Austria in March 1938, Aron’s immigration to the United States in 1939, and Manfred and his mother’s immigration to the United States via Cuba in 1941. Included are biographical and identification documents, records related to Aron’s fur businesses in Europe and the United States, immigration paperwork, photographs, correspondence, a diary kept by Aron in 1940, shortly after his arrival in the U.S., children's books, travel dictionaries, and an interview with the donor's mother, Chana Weidhorn (audiocassettes).