Ludwika and Moses Myers collection

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn47550
• English
• folder 1
• Updated 7 months ago

Contains one Ketubah, a marriage contract written between the donor's parents, Moshe, son of Menachem (Moses Majerczyk), and Ryfka, daughter of Yehezkel (Ludwika Finder), on 7 April 1946 (6 of Nissan 5706) in Linz, Austria.

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn50260
• English
• 1920-1949
• folder 1
• Updated 7 months ago

Photographs (12), and documents, primarily from post-war displaced persons camps in Austria, related to Moses Majerczyk and his wife, Ludwika (nee Finder) Majerczyk. Most of the photographs show the Majerczyks with friends and acquaintances in Bad Ischl and Linz, Austria, 1946-1949, with a few pre-war family photographs. Documents include a card identifying Moses as a former prisoner of Mauthausen/Ebensee (1945); a marriage certificate for Moses and Ludwika (1946); and two immigration cards issued by HIAS, showing that the Majerczyks left Bremen on the S.S. Marine Jumper, in May 1949.

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn50261
• English
• overall: Height: 8.375 inches (21.273 cm) | Width: 0.875 inches (2.223 cm) | Depth: 0.250 inches (0.635 cm)
• Updated 7 months ago

Identification tag stamped KLM / 85375 / P issued to Moses Majerczyk at Mauthausen concentration camp and worn in Melk and Ebensee concentration camps from August 1944 to May 1945. He was required to wear the tag around his wrist and it is taped to a wrist watch band. On September 1, 1939, Germany occupied Poland. In January 1942, Moses was taken to the Krakow ghetto. In September, he was one of the first prisoners transferred to Płaszów forced-labor camp to build the facilities. On August 8, 1944, he was transferred to Mauthausen concentration camp, where he was assigned prisoner number 85...