Morgentaler is a family name (or surname) of Jewish families from Poland.

Origin

The family name Morgentaler developed among

Ashkenazi Jews Ashkenazi Jews ( ; he, יְהוּדֵי אַשְׁכְּנַז, translit=Yehudei Ashkenaz, ; yi, אַשכּנזישע ייִדן, Ashkenazishe Yidn), also known as Ashkenazic Jews or ''Ashkenazim'',, Ashkenazi Hebrew pronunciation: , singu ...

in Europe.

Distribution

Until

World War II World War II or the Second World War, often abbreviated as WWII or WW2, was a world war that lasted from 1939 to 1945. It involved the vast majority of the world's countries—including all of the great powers—forming two opposing ...

in Poland, mainly in

Łódź Łódź, also rendered in English as Lodz, is a city in central Poland and a former industrial centre. It is the capital of Łódź Voivodeship, and is located approximately south-west of Warsaw. The city's coat of arms is an example of cant ...

. The Central Database of Shoah Victims' Names enlists many Jewish Morgentaler victims of the

Holocaust The Holocaust, also known as the Shoah, was the genocide of European Jews during World War II. Between 1941 and 1945, Nazi Germany and its collaborators systematically murdered some six million Jews across German-occupied Europe; ...

. Few Polish Morgentalers survived and emigrated. Today's spreading is relatively high in Canada and Serbia."World Family Names"
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People

* Dr.

Henry Morgentaler Henekh "Henry" Morgentaler, (March 19, 1923 – May 29, 2013), was a Polish-born Canadian physician and abortion rights advocate who fought numerous legal battles aimed at expanding abortion rights in Canada. As a Jewish youth during World War ...

(1923,

), Canadian physician and abortion activist ** '' Morgentaler v. The Queen'', 1976 Supreme Court of Canada decision ** '' R. v. Morgentaler'' (1988), Supreme Court of Canada decision ** '' R. v. Morgentaler'' (1993), Supreme Court of Canada decision * Goldie Morgentaler (born 1950), Yiddish author

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