Morgenstern and Merkur families collection

Identifier: irn559411
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 2017 by Janet Merkur, the granddaughter of Herschel Herman Merkur and daughter of Regina Morgenstern and William "Bill" Adolf Merkur.

Scope and Content

The collection consists of a prayer book, correspondence, documents, photographs, and sheet music relating to the experiences of the Morgenstern and Merkur families in Austria, England, France, Poland, the Soviet Union, and Switzerland before the war, in those nations, Czechoslovakia, and many concentration camps during the Holocaust, and in Austria and Australia after World War II.

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Morgenstern and Merkur families papers
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn555298
- English
- 1913-1949
- folders oversize box oversize box 12 1 1
- Updated 7 months ago
The collection documents the Holocaust experiences of the Morgenstern family of Barycz, Poland and Vienna, Austria, and the Merkur family of Vienna. The Morgenstern family materials include identification papers of Regina Morgenstern, who took a Kindertransport from Vienna to England in 1938; letters from her parents Taube and Mendel Morgenstern to her in London; and her diary from 1945. Also included are photographs of the Morgenstern family, including a photograph of Regina, Bernhard, and Helli Morgenstern reunited in Vienna after the war. The Merkur family materials include a book and lo...
Prayer Book - Prayers for Israel, German translation Prayer book owned by a Jewish Austrian musician and concentration camp inmate
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn559412
- English
- 1913
- overall: Height: 4.000 inches (10.16 cm) | Width: 2.875 inches (7.302 cm) | Depth: 0.875 inches (2.223 cm)
- Updated 7 months ago
A 1913 compilation prayer book (Seder Tefillat Yisrael) owned by Herschel Herman Merkur in Vienna, Austria, before the Holocaust and brought with Adolf (later William), one of his 7 children, when he immigrated to Australia postwar. On March 13, 1938, Germany annexed Austria. New legislation was created that quickly restricted Jewish life. Two of Herman’s older children, Lise and Isak, emigrated. In November, following the Kristallnacht pogrom, Herman’s son Bernhard was arrested and imprisoned in Germany, and later emigrated. In fall 1939, Herman and his family were moved into the ghetto an...

Morgenstern and Merkur families collection

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Morgenstern and Merkur families papers

Prayer Book - Prayers for Israel, German translation Prayer book owned by a Jewish Austrian musician and concentration camp inmate