Gustav Müller papers

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. 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.