United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
box 1
Contains correspondence, documents and photographs related to the family of Hermann (Juda-Hersz) and Nesie (born Schwalb) Bleiweis, who lived in Gladbeck, Germany, in the 1920s and 1930s. The family emigrated to Palestine in 1937 and from there, to the United States. Includes pre-war photographs and documents of life in Gladbeck, as well as Schwalb family correspondence sent from Rozhnyatov, Poland, to the Bleiweis family in the United States from 1938-1941. Included in the correspondence is testimony of the events surrounding the expulsion of Polish-born Jews living in Germany back to Poland.
Bleiweis family papers