us-005578-irn509498-irn515805
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title: Haeberlein-Metzger almond lebkuchen red lidded tin brought to the US by a German Jewish refugee
record resource extent: a: Height: 4.500 inches (11.43 cm) | Width: 4.625 inches (11.747 cm) | Depth: 4.375 inches (11.113 cm) b: Height: 1.250 inches (3.175 cm) | Width: 4.375 inches (11.113 cm) | Depth: 4.375 inches (11.113 cm)
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physical characteristics and technical requirements: a. Cylindrical tin container base painted dark red with embossed, painted images and a detached vertical seam. The design features 2 ovals with an orange and red scalloped border. Each oval has a white castle gate with orange roofs, green trees and the product name. Between the ovals are 2 figures: 1 group has a man with a long orange coat with AG on the left cuff. The man on the right has a green coat, orange pantaloons, and holds 2 geese. The other group has a man playing a bagpipe with an orange kilt with HM. The woman on the right has a green bodice and skirt and holds a yellow pot. There is a yellow and black band near the edges and German fraktur text near the top. The bottom of the tin has a rim. On the underside is an embossed circle and German text. b. Circular tin container lid painted dark red with a dark brown border. On the top is an embossed, painted profile of a knight in green armor on a white horse holding a lance within an 8 pointed star. There is German fraktur text along the edge and sides. a. upper edge, painted in a circle ink yellow and red : Haeberlein Metzger A – G – Nürnberg a. oval, upper left, yellow paint : VESTNERTOR a. oval, upper center, yellow paint : BURG V SÜDEN [Castle of the South] a. lower edge, small print in yellow paint : H Lorenz b. top, painted in a circle in yellow : Nürnberger Lebkuchen – Haeberlein Metzger AG – [Nuremberg Gingerbread - Haeberlein Metzger AG –] b. sides, painted in a circle in yellow and red : Haeberlein – Metzger A-G - Nürnberg
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scope and content: Nuremberg lebkuchen red tin with lid by Haeberlein-Metzger brought by Karl Weiler to the United States when he left Nazi Germany in December 1937. Lebkuchen is a cookie similar to gingerbread and only lebkuchen produced in Nuremberg can bear the city name. Karl lost his position as an assistant judge in March 1933 when the new Nazi government purged the civil service of Jews and passed a law to that effect April 7 with the first Aryan only qualification clause. Karl rejoined the family agricultural firm in Brakel. Anti-Jewish pressures increased and, in May 1936, the firm’s board of directors was forced to sell the business at a loss to a Nazi approved buyer. In December 1937, Karl left for the US. After the war ended in May 1945, he learned that his parents, Fritz and Ella, had been deported to Theresienstadt ghetto-labor camp in 1942, then in 1944 to Auschwitz killing center where they were murdered. His sister, Mathilde Fodor, had been deported from Budapest, Hungary, in November 1944 to Lichtenworth concentration camp where she died of starvation. Her husband, Joszi, and son, Karoly, survived.
archival history: The tin was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2004 by Judy Gartner and Susan Oberfeld, the daughters of Carl and Mina Kaufmann Weiler.
biographical history: Karl Weiler was born in Frankfurt am Main, Germany, on July 31, 1904, to Friedrich (Fritz) and Ella Ederheimer Weiler. Fritz was born on April 11, 1875, in Brakel, to Mathilde Kalmann (1828-1904) and Moses Weiler. Moses was born in 1832 in Brakel to Levi and Jettchen Lilienthal Weiler. Fritz had two sisters, Clementine, born 1869, and Louise, born 1867, who married Max Fulda, and one older brother, Hermann, born 1875. Moses’ father Levi had established an agricultural brokerage and wholesale business, L. Weiler, in Brakel around 1825. Moses now ran the firm and the family was wealthy and respected in the community. The Weiler’s were an assimilated but observant Jewish family. The town had a small synagogue for the twenty Jewish families. Fritz married Ella Ederheimer on May 11, 1902. Ella was born on December 14, 1879, in Frankfurt am Main, to Pauline and Samuel Ederheimer. Ella’s father was a prosperous banker in Frankfurt, where Ella and Fritz settled. Karl’s sister Mathilde (Till) was born on December 29, 1908. Fritz was a partner in a leather goods manufacturing business, but in spring 1914, he agreed to his father’s request to join the family firm. Moses wished to retire and Fritz moved his family to Brakel to run the business with his brother Hermann. Moses and both of Ella’s parents died in 1915. Fritz, age 40, was drafted in 1916 to fight in World War I (1914-1918). He served on the Russian front and was awarded the Iron Cross for bravery. Karl attended a Latin school in Brakel and then a boarding school in nearby Hoexter. After graduating high school in 1922, Karl apprenticed at an agricultural brokerage in Hamburg and Breslau (Wroclaw, Poland) and then studied law at the Universities of Breslau and Freiburg. In 1932, Karl moved to Berlin to study for the assessor exam which would permit him to practice law. On January 30, 1933, Hitler became Chancellor of Germany. Karl passed the exam on February 25 and was appointed an assistant judge. On February 27, he …
date: 1937 December