Lilly Morawetz collection

Identifier: irn563993
Language of Description: English
Level of Description: Collection
Source: EHRI Partner

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https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn563993

Acquisition

The collection was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2011 and 2017 by Margit Meissner, the daughter of Lilly Morawetz.

Scope and Content

The collection consists of a photograph case carried by Lilly Morawetz, a Jewish Austrian refugee, from the Czech Republic through France, including while in Gurs and a jewelry case carried by her when she was deported by the French police from Paris to the Gurs internment camp in 1940 and during her flight through Spain and Portugal. When the family was imprisoned in Spain, this case was taken from Lilly, but because she had lost the key, they couldn’t open it and her jewelry remained safe. She carried the case with her to the US in 1941.

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Red leather photograph case carried by a Jewish Austrian refugee
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn44293
- English
- 1939-1941
- overall: Height: 3.250 inches (8.255 cm) | Width: 8.125 inches (20.638 cm) | Depth: 0.375 inches (0.953 cm)
- Updated 7 months ago
Dark red leather photograph display case carried by Lilly Morawetz in her backpack in 1939 when she fled German occupied Prague, Czechoslovakia (Czech Republic) for France. She kept it with her while held in Gurs internment camp in 1940 and during her flight through Spain and Portugal to the US in 1941. After Germany annexed Austria in 1938, Lilly sent her youngest child, Margit, 16, to Paris. Lilly was visiting Margit that September when Germany annexed the Sudetenland in Czechoslovakia. She hurried back to Prague to sell their home. In March 1939, she was still in Prague when Germany anne...
Jewelry case
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn563230
- English
- overall: Height: 3.500 inches (8.89 cm) | Width: 10.250 inches (26.035 cm) | Depth: 7.500 inches (19.05 cm)
- Updated 7 months ago
Jewelry case carried by Lilly Morawetz (donor’s mother), a Jewish Austrian refugee, when she was deported by the French police from Paris to the Gurs internment camp in 1940 and during her flight through Spain and Portugal. When the family was imprisoned in Spain, this case was taken from Lilly, but because she had lost the key, they couldn’t open it and her jewelry remained safe. She carried the case with her to the US in 1941.

Lilly Morawetz collection

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Red leather photograph case carried by a Jewish Austrian refugee

Jewelry case