Morgenstern and Merkur families collection

Overview

Collection Summary

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.

Provenance

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.