Alice and John Morawetz collection

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John and Alice Morawetz papers
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn522964
- English
- 1920-1940
- folders 3
- Updated 1 year ago
The papers consist of 58 photographs, certificates, identification cards, and correspondence concerning the experiences of Alice Tauscher and Hans Morawetz [donors] in Austria, Trinidad, and the United States from the 1920s through the 1940s.
My Mother Child’s crayon drawing of a flower in a pot made by an Austrian Jewish refugee for his mother
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn522965
- English
- overall: Height: 7.625 inches (19.368 cm) | Width: 4.750 inches (12.065 cm)
- Updated 1 year ago
Crayon sketch of a flower made by 7 year old Hans Morawetz for his mother, Therese, on May 13, 1928, when they lived in Vienna, Austria. In March 1938, Austria was annexed by Nazi Germany. The Germans enacted persecutory measures towards Jews and the family apartment was confiscated. Hans’s father, Franz, was able to obtain US immigration visas for Hans, his mother, and his older brother, Walter. In May 1940, they left Vienna for Genoa, Italy, and sailed for New York aboard the US United States. His father was deported on July 29, 1942, from Vienna to Theresienstadt; two years later he was ...