A Rare Photo Reveals a Family’s Story: The Weilheimer Family Collection

Visual documentation of Jewish spiritual practice in the camps is rare. Curator Kyra Schuster’s pursuit of a photo of a prisoner at Gurs lighting Hannukah candles led her to a whole family’s collection of documents that is unique in many ways.

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• Holocaust Encyclopedia—Gurs

• Holocaust Encyclopedia—Jewish Aid and Rescue

• Holocaust Encyclopedia—Quakers

• Holocaust Encyclopedia—Spiritual Resistance in the Ghettos