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CARL AND MINA WEILER PAPERS, approximately 1900‐1988 2004.485.1 United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives 100 Raoul Wallenberg Place SW Washington, DC 20024‐2126 Tel. (202) 479‐9717 e‐mail: [email protected] Descriptive summary Title: Carl and Mina Weiler papers Dates: approximately 1900‐1988 Accession number: 2004.485.1 Creator: Weiler, Carl, 1904‐1988 Additional creator: Weiler, Mina, 1913‐1999 Extent: 1.0 linear foot (2 boxes) Repository: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives, 100 Raoul Wallenberg Place SW, Washington, DC 20024‐2126 Abstract: The Carl and Mina Weiler papers consist of biographical materials, correspondence, emigration and immigration files, photographic materials, printed materials, and a recipe book documenting Carl Weiler’s and Mina Kaufmann’s German educations, American immigrations, and unsuccessful efforts to bring their family members to the United States. The collection also includes a World War I photo album and scrapbook documenting the military service of Mina’s uncle, Julius Oppenheimer, in Moselle. Languages: German, English, Spanish, French Administrative Information Access: Collection is open for use, but is stored offsite. Please contact the Reference Desk more than seven days prior to visit in order to request access. Reproduction and use: Collection is available for use. Material may be protected by copyright. Please contact reference staff for further information. Preferred citation: (Identification of item), Carl and Mina Weiler papers, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives, Washington, DC http://collections.ushmm.org
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Acquisition information: Judy Gartner and Susan Oberfeld donated the Carl and Mina Weiler papers, their parents’ papers, to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in September 2004. Related materials: Judy Gartner and Susan Oberfeld also donated forty eight objects related to Kaufmann and Weiler families. Accruals: Accruals may have been received since this collection was first processed, see archives catalog at collections.ushmm.org for further information. Processing history: Julie Schweitzer, August 2014 Biographical note Carl (Karl) Weiler (1904‐1988) was born in Frankfurt am Main to Friedrich (Fritz) Weiler (1875‐1942) and Ella Weiler (nee Ederheimer, 1879‐1942). He studied law, immigrated to the United States in December 1937, settled in Baltimore, and married Mina Kaufmann in 1942. His parents moved to Berlin in 1936, were deported to Theresienstadt in July 1942, transferred to Treblinka in September, and killed. Carl’s sister, Mathilde Fodor, who had been living in Budapest with her husband Joszi and son Karoly, perished at Lichtenwörth. Mina Weiler (1913‐1999) was born Mina Kaufmann in Hainstadt, near Buchen, to Hermann Kaufmann (d. 1918) and Klara Kaufmann (nee Oppenheimer, 1886‐1942). Mina studied dentistry and immigrated to the United States in 1938. Her mother, Klara, was deported to Gurs in October 1940. She was transferred to Rivesaltes on September 11, 1942 and three days later deported to Auschwitz and killed. Mina’s uncle, Julius Oppenheimer (1882‐approximately 1942), and his wife, Elsa (1894‐approximately 1942), were deported from Munich via Berg am Laim on April 4, 1942 to Piaski and perished. Klara’s sister, Frieda Allersheimer (1883‐1941), is believed to have been deported along with her daughter, Margarete (Gretel, 1922‐1941), on November 20, 1941 to either Riga or Kaunas and killed shortly after arrival. Scope and content of collection The Carl and Mina Weiler papers consist of biographical materials, correspondence, emigration and immigration files, photographic materials, printed materials, and a recipe book documenting Carl Weiler’s and Mina Kaufmann’s German educations, American immigrations, and unsuccessful efforts to bring their family members to the United States. The collection also includes a World War I photo album and scrapbook documenting the military service of Mina’s uncle, Julius Oppenheimer, in Moselle. Biographical materials include birth, marriage, naturalization, and death certificates; passports and driver’s licenses; student and employment records; and letters of recommendation documenting Carl and Mina Weiler; family friends Max and Rosa Neumann, Max’s father Hirsch, and their housekeeper Lina Bach; Carl’s uncle Richard Ederheimer; and Mina’s relatives Frieda Allersheimer and Michael Kaufmann. This series also includes Julius Oppenheimer’s 1937 date book. Kaufmann family correspondence includes prewar and wartime letters among Mina Weiler, Klara Kaufmann, and their Oppenheimer relatives about Mina’s life in the United States, Klara’s deportation to Gurs, news of family members and friends, and efforts to immigrate to the United States. Wartime http://collections.ushmm.org
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correspondence also includes letters from Mina’s friend Karl Mayer who was interned as a German national at Yercaud in India. Postwar letters among Mina, Karl Maier, and Josef Oppenheimer describe the Holocaust fates of relatives, efforts to recover family property, and continued efforts to immigrate. Letters from the Gemeindeverwaltung Gemmingen provide Oppenheimer family history and attempt to trace family members. Weiler family correspondence consists of prewar and wartime letters among Carl Weiler, his sister, his parents, his cousins Curt Weiler and Emil Stern, and family friend Richard Auerbach about Karl’s life in the United States and efforts to rescue his parents from Germany. Emigration and immigration files include affidavits, forms, supporting documentation, packing lists, and correspondence with government agencies, travel agencies, and aid organizations documenting Carl and Mina Weiler’s immigration to the United States and their unsuccessful efforts to bring Carl’s parents and Mina’s mother, aunts, and uncle to America. This series also includes poetry about immigration efforts and the immigration experience by Carl Weiler. Photographic materials include prewar family photographs, loose photographs of World War I era German soldiers, and a photo album and scrapbook documenting Julius Oppenheimer’s World War I military service, including in Neuburg in Lothringen (Novéant‐sur‐Moselle), around 1915‐1916. The photo album includes photographic postcards from Julius’ brother, Sigmund, who also served in the German military. This series further includes photographs of the family of Walter Jensen, a German Jewish World War I veteran, actor, and theater director born Walter Jacob in 1887 in Gernsbach who was married to Mina’s aunt Helene Oppenheimer. Walter was arrested by the Gestapo in the summer of 1933 and moved his wife and children Jutta, Suse, and Norbert to Palestine shortly after. Printed materials include dissertations by Mina Weiler and her friends Karl Mayer and Edmund Rothschild, a newspaper clipping with a picture of Carl Weiler cross country skiing in Richmond, a commemorative paper and sermon celebrating the 50th anniversary of the Munich synagogue, a brochure and information sheet from an exhibition on German Jewish soldiers in World War I, and a brochure and photocopies of booklets and articles about the Heilbronn Jewish community and synagogue. The recipe book belonged to Mina Weiler and includes handwritten recipes in German as well as entries appearing to track daily nutrition. System of arrangement The Carl and Mina Weiler papers are arranged as seven series:  Series 1: Biographical materials, 1905‐1958  Series 2: Kaufmann family correspondence, 1905‐1962  Series 3: Weiler family correspondence, 1935‐1948  Series 4: Emigration and immigration materials, 1937‐1945  Series 5: Photographic materials, approximately 1900‐1940  Series 6: Printed materials, 1936‐1988  Series 7: Recipe book, approximately 1930s http://collections.ushmm.org
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Indexing terms Gurs (Concentration camp) Theresienstadt (Concentration camp) Jews‐‐Germany. Holocaust victims‐‐Germany. Concentration camp inmates‐‐France‐‐Gurs‐‐Correspondence. Jewish dentists‐‐Germany. Jewish refugees‐‐Maryland‐‐Baltimore. World War, 1914‐1918‐‐Participation, Jewish. Cookbooks‐‐Germany. Berlin (Germany) Munich (Germany) Moselle (France) Budapest (Hungary) Heilbronn (Germany) Germany‐‐Emigration and immigration‐‐History‐‐1933‐1945. Photographs. CONTAINER LIST Series 1: Biographical materials, 1905‐1958 Folder Title 1.1 Allersheimer, Frieda, approximately 1948 1.2 Bach, J. L., approximately 1930s 1.3 Bach, Karolina (Lina), 1912, 1944, 1949 1.4 Ederheimer, Richard, 1941 1.5 Kaufmann, Michael, 1938 1.6 Neumann, Hirsch, 1914‐1916 1.7 Neumann, Max, 1920, 1935‐1936, 1944 1.8 Neumann, Rosa, 1936, 1944 1.9 Oppenheimer, Julius, 1937 1.10 Weiler, Carl, 1905, 1911‐1925, 1931‐1938, 1944‐1947 1.11 ‐ 1.12, Weiler, Mina, 1929‐1944, 1954‐1958 (2 folders and oversize folder) OS 1 Series 2: Kaufmann family correspondence, 1905‐1962 Folder Title 1.13 Gemeindeverwaltung Gemmingen, 1948 1.14 Kaufmann, Klara, 1940‐1942 http://collections.ushmm.org
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1.15 1.16 1.17 1.18 1.19 1.20 1.21 1.22 1.23 Maier, Karl, 1946‐1954, 1962 Mayer, Karl, 1941 Oppenheimer, Josef, 1946 Oppenheimer, Julius and Elsa, 1905, 1939‐1942 Oppenheimer, Margit, 1939, 1944 Oppenheimer, Otto, 1939 Oppenheimer, Simon, approximately 1941 Weiler, Mina, 1942 Miscellaneous, 1916, 1932‐1942 Series 3: Weiler family correspondence, 1935‐1948 Folder Title 1.24 Auerbach, Richard, 1941‐1942 1.25 Fodor, Mathilde, 1941 1.26 Stern, Emil, 1938‐1941 1.27 Weiler, Curt, 1941 1.28 Weiler, Friedrich and Ella, 1938‐1941 1.29 Weiler, Carl, 1941 1.30 Miscellaneous, 1935, 1941, 1946‐1948 Series 4: Emigration and immigration materials, 1937‐1945 Folder Title 1.31 Allersheimer, Frieda, approximately 1940 1.32 Kaufmann, Klara, 1939‐1942 1.33 Oppenheimer, Julius and Elsa, 1939‐1941 1.34 Weiler, Friedrich and Ella, 1938‐1941 1.35 Weiler, Carl, 1937‐1945 1.36 Weiler, Mina, 1937‐1944 Series 5: Photographic materials, approximately 1900‐1940 Folder Title 2.1 ‐ 2.5 Family photographs, approximately 1900‐1937 (5 folders) 2.6 German soldiers, approximately 1906‐1918 2.7 ‐ 2.8 Jensen (Jacob), Walter, and family, approximately 1900‐1936 (2 folders) 2.9 Neumann, Hirsch, and Max with Rose, approximately 1900, 1940 2.10 Portraits (cabinet cards and cartes‐de‐visite), approximately 1900‐1930 2.11 Weiler, Mina, approximately 1935‐1942 2.12 World War I photo album and scrapbook, approximately 1915‐1916 http://collections.ushmm.org
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Series 6: Printed materials, 1936‐1988 Folder Title 2.13 Exhibition on German Jewish soldiers, 1914‐1915, at the Wehrgeschichtlichen Museum, 1981 2.14 ‐ 2.15 Heilbronn Jewish community and synagogue, approximately 1987‐1988 (2 folders) 2.16 Mayer, Karl, Molekulargewichtsbestimmung von Eiweisskörpern, 1936 2.17 Munich synagogue, 1937 2.18 Rothschild, Edmund, Behandlung der funikulären Myelose, 1937 2.19 Weiler, Carl, 1940 2.20 Weiler, Mina, Fernergebnisse Kieferorthopädisch behandelter Brüche, 1937 Series 7: Recipe book, approximately 1930s Folder Title 2.21 Recipe book, Mina Weiler, approximately 1930s http://collections.ushmm.org