Curjel and his wife Marie Curjel (née Hermann) were both
Jewish. Marie committed suicide on 27 April 1940 because of the threat of deportation to a
concentration camp. His daughter Gertrud (b. 5 March 1893) was murdered in
Auschwitz concentration camp in February 1943. His son
Hans Curjel (b. 1 May 1896; d. 3 January 1974) was an art historian, conductor, and theatre director, who successfully emigrated to Switzerland in 1933. == References ==