Alexander and Raya Magid Markon family collection

Identifier: irn522307
Language of Description: English
Level of Description: Collection
Source: EHRI Partner

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https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn522307

Acquisition

The collection was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2004 by Genya Markon, the daughter of Alexander and Raya Magid Markon. Accretions to the collection were donated at other times.

Scope and Content

The collection consists of a dog tag, correspondence, documents, identification cards, and photographs relating to Alexander and Raya Magid Markon and their son Alain during and after the Holocaust when the family left German occupied France for the United States. Some of these materials may be combined into a single collection in the future.

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Raya Markon letter
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn512949
- English
- folder 1
- Updated 7 months ago
Contains a letter written by Raya Markon imploring her first cousin for help to get her family out of Vichy, France.
Markon family papers
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn522502
- English
- 1927-1974
- folders 2
- Updated 7 months ago
The papers consist of documents, identification cards, photographs, and correspondence relating to the Markon family during the Holocaust.
French Army ID tag worn by a Jewish Lithuanian emigre soldier
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn522504
- English
- 1929
- overall: Height: 1.375 inches (3.493 cm) | Width: 1.625 inches (4.128 cm) | Depth: 0.250 inches (0.635 cm)
- Updated 7 months ago
Dog tag issued to Owsiez (Alexander) Markon, a Jewish emigre from Lithuania, when he served in the French Army from 1927-29. After Nazi Germany invaded Poland in September 1939, France declared war on Germany. Alexander was recalled to the Army and served ten months on the Maginot Line. Germany invaded France in May 1940. After the surrender of France in June, Alexander was demobilized. He joined his wife, Raya, who had fled to Toulouse, where their son Alain was born in June 1941. The couple applied for US visas and received them in 1942. The family sailed from Lisbon, Portugal, and arrive...
Genya Markon photograph
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn522974
- English
- 1942
- folder 1
- Updated 7 months ago
Consists of one photograph of Alain Markon [donor's brother], at one year old in Toulouse, France.
Markon family photograph collection
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn59154
- English
- 1929-1945
- folder oversize box 1 1
- Updated 7 months ago
Collection of pre-war and wartime photographs of Alexander and Raya Magid Markon (donor's parents) and their son Alain (donor's brother) who was born in Toulouse in 1941. Included in the collection are photos of Alexander in the French Army, Raya in Wilno (Vilnius), Alexander in France before the war, and Alain in Toulouse in 1941; and one photo of Alexander and Raya in Marseille in September 1942 prior to their departure for the United States. Also includes a photo of Katia Magid and Fanya Schuster (donor's aunts) in Cuba, where they went to wait for their visas to enter the United States,...

Alexander and Raya Magid Markon family collection

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Raya Markon letter

Markon family papers

French Army ID tag worn by a Jewish Lithuanian emigre soldier

Genya Markon photograph

Markon family photograph collection