Morgenstern and Merkur families collection

• 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...

• 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...