Alexander and Raya Magid Markon family collection

• 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.

• 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.

• 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...

• 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.

• 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,...