us-005578-irn522959-irn522964
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scope and content: 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.
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title: John and Alice Morawetz papers
archival history: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
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biographical history: Hans Morawetz was born on April 21, 1921, in Vienna, Austria, to Franz Josef and Therese Sinaiberger Morawetz. Franz was born on November 25, 1873 in Piessling, Czechoslovakia, and Therese was born in April 1894. Franz and Therese married on December 22, 1918, in Vienna. Hans had an older brother, Walter, born in 1919. His father was in business and they were a prosperous Jewish family. Hans was trained in the fine leather work trade. In March 1938, Nazi Germany annexed Austria and established punitive anti-Jewish policies. Hans and his family were forced to leave their seven room apartment and move into a single room. His father was able to obtain immigration visas for the United States for Hans, Therese, and Walter. His father had purchased an affidavit for Hans from the Jewish Cultural Organization of Vienna which testified that Hans was as essential employee who performed urgent work and his skills were necessary abroad. In May 1940, the three left Vienna by train for Genoa, Italy. From there, they embarked on the SS United States, one of the last ships to leave Europe during the war, arriving in New York on May 29. Franz was deported on July 29, 1942, from Vienna to Theresienstadt concentration camp. In 1944, he was transported to Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp and murdered. Hans, now John, was drafted into the US Army in 1943. He participated in the Normandy invasion in June 1944 and remained in Europe through January 1946. He served in the Intelligence Corps, was a military policeman, and was decorated for his service. His brother, Walter, trained at Camp Ritchie and served in the US Air Force from 1943-1946, including a year and a half in the European theater. Hans married Alice Tauscher, a Jewish refugee from Vienna, in the Bronx on March 19, 1949. John became an economist and worked in book publishing. The couple had a daughter. His mother, Therese, died on March 2, 1963, age 69 years. John died on August 10, 2007, age 86 years, in San Diego, California. Al…