Sonia Weiser

A Frail Survivor’s Idiosyncratic Collection Of Holocaust Artifacts Needs A Home

What do you do with 665 pieces of the Holocaust? That’s the question facing Edie Mermelstein, the daughter of survivor, human rights activist and collector of Holocaust artifacts Mel Mermelstein as the latest Yom HaShoah – Holocaust Remembrance Day – approaches on May 1. Since 1972, Mel has displayed his pieces as a teaching tool…