Alice and John Morawetz collection

Identifier: irn522959
Language of Description: English
Level of Description: Collection
Source: EHRI Partner

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Acquisition

The collection was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2005 by Alice and John Morawetz.

Scope and Content

The collection consists of a drawing, documents, and photographs from the 1920s to the 1940s relating to the experiences of Alice Tauscher and Hans Morawetz and their families in Vienna, Austria, of the Tauscher family in Trinidad, and of both families following their immigration to the United States during the Holocaust.

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John and Alice Morawetz papers
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn522964
- English
- 1920-1940
- folders 3
- Updated 7 months ago
The papers consist of 58 photographs, certificates, identification cards, and correspondence concerning the experiences of Alice Tauscher and Hans Morawetz [donors] in Austria, Trinidad, and the United States from the 1920s through the 1940s.
My Mother Child’s crayon drawing of a flower in a pot made by an Austrian Jewish refugee for his mother
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn522965
- English
- overall: Height: 7.625 inches (19.368 cm) | Width: 4.750 inches (12.065 cm)
- Updated 7 months ago
Crayon sketch of a flower made by 7 year old Hans Morawetz for his mother, Therese, on May 13, 1928, when they lived in Vienna, Austria. In March 1938, Austria was annexed by Nazi Germany. The Germans enacted persecutory measures towards Jews and the family apartment was confiscated. Hans’s father, Franz, was able to obtain US immigration visas for Hans, his mother, and his older brother, Walter. In May 1940, they left Vienna for Genoa, Italy, and sailed for New York aboard the US United States. His father was deported on July 29, 1942, from Vienna to Theresienstadt; two years later he was ...

Alice and John Morawetz collection

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John and Alice Morawetz papers

My Mother Child’s crayon drawing of a flower in a pot made by an Austrian Jewish refugee for his mother