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Gustav Müller papers

Document | Digitized | Accession Number: 2000.60

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Overview

Description: The Gustav Müller papers contain correspondence, notices, and questionnaires related to the restriction of Jewish activities in German-occupied Czechoslovakia. The records document the dissolution and liquidation of Gustav Müller’s business, the relinquishment of his business license and his and his wife’s drivers’ licenses, instructions to sublet part of his apartment, rules about long-distance telephone use and the ownership of typewriters and bicycles, a Civilian Air Raid Protection ID card for his wife, and a notice that he had taken a course on anti-aircraft defense.
Date: 1940-1941
Collection Creator: Gustav Müller
Biography: Gustav Müller (born 1880) was a Czech businessman in Prague and was married to Marguerit Gratz Müller (born 1891). The couple’s son Rudolph (1914-2003) left Europe in January 1939, lived in Guayaquil, Ecuador for several years, and immigrated to the United States with his wife, Elizabeth, in 1947. Gustav and Marguerit Müller were both transported to Theresienstadt and then Auschwitz, and are believed to have died at Auschwitz in 1942 or 1943.

Physical Details

Language: German Czech
Extent: 3 folders
System of Arrangement: The Gustav Muller papers are arranged as a single series: I. Gustav Müller papers, 1940-1941.

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Conditions on Access: There are no known restrictions on access to this material.
Conditions on Use: Material(s) in this collection may be protected by copyright and/or related rights. You do not require further permission from the Museum to use this material. The user is solely responsible for making a determination as to if and how the material may be used.

Keywords & Subjects

Topical Term: Jews--Legal status, laws, etc.--Czechoslovakia. Jewish merchants--Czechoslovakia. Jews--Czechoslovakia--History. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Czechoslovakia.
Geographic Name: Czechoslovakia--History--1938-1945. Prague (Czech Republic)

Administrative Notes

Holder of Originals: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Legal Status: Permanent Collection
Provenance: The Gustav Müller papers were donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum by Rudolph Muller in 2000 and 2001. The accession previously cataloged as 2001.54 has been incorporated into this collection.
Funding Note: The cataloging of this collection has been supported by a grant from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.
Primary Number: 2000.60

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