Marian and Moscuna families papers

Margit Marian (1924-2007) was born on July 15, 1924 to Bronislava Marian and Rudolf Marian. Her mother, Bronislava Marian (Bronia, 1885-1979) was born Bronislava Hirschmann on January 4, 1885 in Stryi, Austro-Hungarian Empire (Stryi, Ukraine) to Moritz Hirschmann and Eugenia Hirschmann. Her father Rudolf Marian (1879-1936) was born on October 2, 1879 in Bosanci, Romania to David Marian and Rachel Marian. Margit grew up in Cîmpulung, Romania and she had three siblings: Teofila Marian (b. 1910), Elsa Marian (b. 1911, and Dagobert Marian (Dodo, 1915-1988). In November 1940 Romania allied with Germany, and in October 1941 the Marian family were deported from Cîmpulung to Transnistria. They were liberated by the Soviet Red Army in 1944 and the family returned to Cîmpulung. Margit became a teacher and later attended medical school in Timișoara where she trained to become a microbiologist. While in medical school she met and married Petru Ioan Kun (later Petru Ioan Dragos, 1923-1955). Petru was a journalist, and died by suicide in 1955. In 1958 Margit married Octav Moscuna (1918-2005) and they lived in Bucharest. They immigrated to Israel in 1970, and later moved to the United States.

Octav Moscuna (1918-2005) was born on June 5, 1918 in Bucharest, Romania. His father was a businessman and his mother, Otilia Moscuna, was an educator. During the Holocaust, Octav was a forced-laborer in Bucharest from 1941-1944. After the war he worked as a chemical engineer in Bucharest and married Margit Marian (1924-2007) in 1958. They immigrated to Israel in 1970, and later moved to the United States.

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum collection, gift of Viorica Hagi-Duvan

Donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2020 by Viorica Hagi-Duvan, daughter of Margit Marian Moscuna.