Harmonica with case

The harmonica and case were donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2019 from Mark and Rosalyn Blogier, the children of Abraham Blogier and Betty Wides Blogier. 

Harmonica with case 

a: Height: 1.250 inches (3.175 cm) | Width: 6.500 inches (16.51 cm) | Depth: 1.500 inches (3.81 cm) b: Height: 1.500 inches (3.81 cm) | Width: 7.000 inches (17.78 cm) | Depth: 2.250 inches (5.715 cm) 

M. Hohner Chromonica II Deluxe with matching case, which had belonged to Max Wekselman while living as a displaced person in Munich. Edith Blogier Wechselman (Max Wekselman's mother) and her brother Abraham Blogier were the only survivors of their immediate families. Abraham survived the Bedzin ghetto and subsequent transfer through multiple concentration camps, including Auschwitz, before his liberation at Dachau. In summer 1945, Abraham was reunited in Germany with his sister Edith and her son Max who had escaped the Bedzin ghetto and had survived in hiding through the aid of Polish women Edith had befriended. Edith's husband, Ben Wechselman, also survived the Holocaust and was liberated at Dachau with Abraham. Until 1949, the family lived in Munich where Max went to school and became active in the local Maccabi youth soccer team. In 1949, Abraham, Edith, Max, and Ben immigrated to the United States, eventually settling in Cleveland. 

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M. Hohner Chromonica II Deluxe harmonica (a) with matching red and gold case (b).