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Arbeitslager Bunzlau I: Podobóz KL Gross-Rosen (1944-1945)
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn47852
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- textual record
- Physical Description
- Booklet : printed, bound, graphic arts : yellow, black, white ; Ht: 21,2 cm x W: 14,5 cm
- Date
- 2004
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- textual record
- Physical Description
- Booklet : printed, bound, graphic arts : yellow, black, white ; Ht: 21,2 cm x W: 14,5 cm
- Other Title Information
- Documentary Artifact
- Date
- 2004
- Creator
- -
- Physical Condition
- Excellent
- Language
- Polish
- German
- Notes
- 96 pages. Softcover, paper bound with staples. Cover is pale yellow with black text and an image of a photocopied document in the centre; more text and a museum symbol is found on the back cover. Interior pages are white with text, charts; the appendices have photocopies of charts, documents and maps.
- Accession No.
- 2005.08.02
- Places
- Walbrzych, Poland (Europe)
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
Images
The Art and Politics of Arthur Szyk
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn47782
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- textual record
- Physical Description
- Book : printed, bound, graphic arts : blue, beige, brown, black, yellow, white ; Ht: 30,5 cm x W: 24,3 cm
- Date
- 2002
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- textual record
- Physical Description
- Book : printed, bound, graphic arts : blue, beige, brown, black, yellow, white ; Ht: 30,5 cm x W: 24,3 cm
- Other Title Information
- Documentary Artifact
- Date
- 2002
- Creator
- 0
- Physical Condition
- Excellent
- Language
- English
- Notes
- 135 pages. Hardcover, cardboard bound. Cover is blue, fabric with the title printed in the centre, in silver, surrounded by a square border. There is a glossy dustjacket that goes over the cover, with a colour illustration of a Jewish uprising. The back of the jacket is blue-grey, with a partial illustration of an arm with a Star of David armband. Interior pages are glossy, white; they consist of text and coloured illustrations. Narrative: This book is a publication from the exhibit "The Art and Politics of Arthur Szyk", which was created by the United States Holocaust Memorial Centre.
- Accession No.
- 2011X.83.01
- Name Access
- Bracie, Alexandra
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
Images
Excerpts from the Frampol Memorial Book
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn47558
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- textual record
- Physical Description
- Booklet : printed, graphic arts : beige, black ; Ht: 28 cm x W: 20,5 cm
- Date
- August 1997
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- textual record
- Physical Description
- Booklet : printed, graphic arts : beige, black ; Ht: 28 cm x W: 20,5 cm
- Other Title Information
- Documentary Artifact
- Date
- August 1997
- Creator
- -
- Physical Condition
- Excellent
- Language
- English
- Notes
- 59 pages. Soft cover, paper bound with black plastic spirals binding. Covers are beige with black text. Front inside cover has a printed map of Frampol in black. Interior pages are biege with text. Narrative: Frampol memorial book was first published in 1966 in tel Aviv, edited by David Stockfish
- Accession No.
- 1998.49.01
- Name Access
- Shnay, Zipporah
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
Images
Calendar
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn47833
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- textual record
- Physical Description
- Calendar : printed, stapled, perforated : white, red, white, grey ; Ht: 44,8 cm x W: 0,6 cm x De: 23 cm
- Date
- 1997-1998
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- textual record
- Physical Description
- Calendar : printed, stapled, perforated : white, red, white, grey ; Ht: 44,8 cm x W: 0,6 cm x De: 23 cm
- Other Title Information
- Documentary Artifact
- Date
- 1997-1998
- Physical Condition
- Good
- Language
- French
- Hebrew
- Notes
- Hebrew calendar for the year 1997-1998 (5758): cardboard backing, red printing and design, pages flip up, hole at top to nail to wall
- Accession No.
- 2001.35.05
- Name Access
- Bismuth, Michele
- Places
- Tunis, Tunisia, Africa
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
Images
Zag?ada ?ydów Tykocina W 55 rocznic?
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn48031
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- textual record
- Physical Description
- Booklet : printed, bound : beige, brown, black ; Ht: 22 cm x W: 16,3 cm
- Date
- 1996
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- textual record
- Physical Description
- Booklet : printed, bound : beige, brown, black ; Ht: 22 cm x W: 16,3 cm
- Other Title Information
- Documentary Artifact
- Date
- 1996
- Physical Condition
- Good
- Language
- English
- Polish
- Notes
- 24 pages. Softcover, paper bound with staples. Cover is glossy beige with a brown drawing of a synagogue and black text printed underneath; the back cover is plain beige. Interior pages are glossy beige with text, charts and b&w and coloured photos of people.
- Accession No.
- 2000.17.01
- Name Access
- Jankielewitz, Mina
- Places
- Tykocin, Poland, Europe
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
Koncentra?ní tabor Wulkow 1944-1945
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn47762
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- textual record
- Physical Description
- Booklet : printed, bound, graphic arts : blue, black, white ; Ht: 20,6 cm x W: 14,3 cm
- Date
- 1995
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- textual record
- Physical Description
- Booklet : printed, bound, graphic arts : blue, black, white ; Ht: 20,6 cm x W: 14,3 cm
- Other Title Information
- Documentary Artifact
- Date
- 1995
- Physical Condition
- Good
- Language
- Czech
- Notes
- 30 pages. Softcover, paper bound with staples. Cover is light blue with black text. Interior pages are white with text. On pages 8 and 9 there are a series of b&w illustrated maps.
- Accession No.
- 2011X.62.30
- Name Access
- Novak, Georges
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
Images
Envelope
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn59540
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- textual record
- Physical Description
- Envelope : Paper : Printed : Ink : Red, blue, black, green, grey. ; Ht: 11 cm x W: 22 cm
- Date
- 1995
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- textual record
- Physical Description
- Envelope : Paper : Printed : Ink : Red, blue, black, green, grey. ; Ht: 11 cm x W: 22 cm
- Other Title Information
- Documentary Artifact
- Date
- 1995
- Physical Condition
- Good
- Language
- German
- Notes
- Envelope stamped T.R., Luftpost printed T.L, air mail border, address printed on back. Sent by David Schuster of Wuerzburg, Germany, to Edgar Strauss in Montreal. The stamp was made to commemorate to the 50th anniversary of the liberation of the concentration camps. Sent on 11 July 1995.
- Accession No.
- 2011X.58.301
- Name Access
- MHMC
- Places
- Germany, Europe
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
Images
Envelope
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn59541
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- textual record
- Physical Description
- Envelope : Paper : Printed : Ink : Navy, black, brown, yellow, white. ; Ht: 10 cm x W: 25 cm
- Date
- 1995
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- textual record
- Physical Description
- Envelope : Paper : Printed : Ink : Navy, black, brown, yellow, white. ; Ht: 10 cm x W: 25 cm
- Other Title Information
- Documentary Artifact
- Date
- 1995
- Physical Condition
- Excellent
- Language
- English
- French
- German
- Notes
- Envelope, sealed, unused, printed return address, stamped with a holocaust commemorative stamp. Stamp shows faces of holocaust victims under the yellow fabric Jewish star. Letter sent by the Atlantic Jewish Council (Halifax) for archival purposes.
- Accession No.
- 2011X.58.302
- Name Access
- MHMC
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
Images
Envelope
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn59542
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- textual record
- Physical Description
- Envelope : Paper : Printed : Ink : Navy, black, brown, yellow, white ; Ht: 10 cm x W: 24 cm
- Date
- 1995
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- textual record
- Physical Description
- Envelope : Paper : Printed : Ink : Navy, black, brown, yellow, white ; Ht: 10 cm x W: 24 cm
- Other Title Information
- Documentary Artifact
- Date
- 1995
- Physical Condition
- Excellent
- Language
- English
- German
- French
- Notes
- Envelope, sealed, unused, printed return address, stamped with a holocaust commemorative stamp. Stamp shows faces of holocaust victims under the yellow fabric Jewish star. Letter prepared by the Montreal Holocaust Memorial Center (Montreal) for archival purposes.
- Accession No.
- 2011X.58.303
- Name Access
- MHMC
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
Images
Envelope
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn59543
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- textual record
- Physical Description
- Envelope : Paper : Printed : Ink : Navy, black, brown, yellow, white ; Ht: 4 in. x W: 9 1/2 in.
- Date
- 1995
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- textual record
- Physical Description
- Envelope : Paper : Printed : Ink : Navy, black, brown, yellow, white ; Ht: 4 in. x W: 9 1/2 in.
- Other Title Information
- Documentary Artifact
- Date
- 1995
- Physical Condition
- Excellent
- Language
- English
- French
- German
- Notes
- Envelope, sealed, unused, printed return address, stamped with a holocaust commemorative stamp. Stamp shows faces of holocaust victims under the yellow fabric Jewish star. Letter prepared by the Montreal Holocaust Memorial Center (Montreal) for archival purposes.
- Accession No.
- 2011X.58.304
- Name Access
- MHMC
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
Images
The 50th Anniversary of Lodz Ghetto Liquidation 1944-1994
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn47796
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- textual record
- Physical Description
- Booklet : printed, bound, photography, graphic arts : black, white, red, yellow ; Ht: 20 cm x W: 12 cm
- Date
- August 21, 1994
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- textual record
- Physical Description
- Booklet : printed, bound, photography, graphic arts : black, white, red, yellow ; Ht: 20 cm x W: 12 cm
- Other Title Information
- Documentary Artifact
- Date
- August 21, 1994
- Physical Condition
- Good
- Language
- English
- Notes
- 16 pages; soft cover with paper stapled binding. Black cover with white title, drawing of a stylized red rose inside a yellow Star of David. White pages with black text; consisting of b&w and coloured photographs with b&w diagrams.
- Accession No.
- 2000.61.03
- Name Access
- Cale, Leon
- Places
- Lodz ?, Poland, Europe
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
Images
Postcard
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn59551
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- textual record
- Physical Description
- Postcard : Cardstock : Printed : Ink : Blue, brown, beige, black, white, red. ; Ht: 15 cm x W: 10 cm
- Date
- September 1994
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- textual record
- Physical Description
- Postcard : Cardstock : Printed : Ink : Blue, brown, beige, black, white, red. ; Ht: 15 cm x W: 10 cm
- Other Title Information
- Documentary Artifact
- Date
- September 1994
- Physical Condition
- Excellent
- Language
- German
- Notes
- Unused postcard with picture of the interior of the old synagogue in Essen after it was rebuilt from 1986 - 1988. Brief history on back, T.L. Special edition with note from the directors of the present synagogue printed on back. There is a banner in front of the synagogue with the title: Juden in der Bundesrepublik / Mit dem Gebetsmantel zum Gegenangriff (translation: Jews in Germany / The prayer shawl to counterattack).
- Accession No.
- 2011X.58.313
- Name Access
- MHMC
- Places
- Essen, Germany, Europe
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
Images
Manuscript
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn59633
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- textual record
- Physical Description
- Manuscript : Paper : Printed : ink : Black, White ; Ht: 27,5 cm x W: 19 cm
- Date
- 1994
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- textual record
- Physical Description
- Manuscript : Paper : Printed : ink : Black, White ; Ht: 27,5 cm x W: 19 cm
- Other Title Information
- Documentary Artifact
- Date
- 1994
- Creator
- Bolgar, Marianne
- Physical Condition
- Good
- Language
- English
- Notes
- Manuscript, nine pages in length, account of events by Marianne Bolgar. The manuscript starts with the arrival of the German army in Budapest on 14 March 1944. Narrative: Marianne Bolgar was born on 27 November 1929. In her account of the war, Marianne Bolgar remembers when the Germans arrived in Budapest on 1944-3-19. She lived with her family on Peterdy street and, later that year; they were forced to move across the street into single building with the other Jewish families. It was marked by a yellow star, a 'mini-ghetto, and they were allowed to leave for only two hours a day to buy food. The teenagers of the house would often sneak to the roof during air raids. August 15 1944 saw the destruction of the ghetto in an air raid. The nearest shelter was the Krebs' basement; at the end of the raid "Uncle' Krebs warned Marianne's father not to leave with the rest of the Jews. They remained in Uncle Krebs' store basement at 56b Hernad Street. Through hiding they were able to escape the government’s calls for Jewish men and women, between 16 and 50. In November, Uncle Krebs and Dr. Meister warned them to get out, as death was now the punishment for harboring Jews. They refused to leave and were allowed to remain. The hope was that the Russians would arrive and liberate them soon. Later that year the Allied bombing destroyed electricity and water in the city, and her family was forced to use a can of oil and string for light and jars of water they had collected from a dripping tap. In December they heard from the conversations upstairs that their hiding place had been hit by a bomb which did not explode. 23 December 1944 saw the Russians advancing towards Budapest, and the increased presence of Germans and Panzer Platoons in the city. Her father, who was a loud snorer, had to sleep during the day when moving tanks would mask the sound. A few days later they were freed by a Russian soldier. Marianne remarks that their old neighbors, who had neither harmed nor helped them, seemed to wish them to hell for returning. She decided to leave Hungary as soon as she could.
- Accession No.
- 1994.2.1
- Name Access
- Bolgar, Marianne
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
Images
The Story of Hungary 1944; and The Trouble with Drawing Parallels Between the Exodus and the Holocaust
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn59634
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- textual record
- Physical Description
- Manuscript : paper : Typewritten : ink : Black, white ; Ht: 27,5 cm x W: 19 cm
- Date
- April 02, 1994
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- textual record
- Physical Description
- Manuscript : paper : Typewritten : ink : Black, white ; Ht: 27,5 cm x W: 19 cm
- Other Title Information
- Documentary Artifact
- Date
- April 02, 1994
- Creator
- Bolgar, Marianne
- Physical Condition
- Good
- Language
- English
- Notes
- Manuscript of a speech given on 2 April 1994 by Marianne Bolgar. Discussion of appropriate ways for the Jewish community to reflect on the Holocaust, the trouble with drawing parallels between the Exodus and Holocaust, and opinion about proposed national dates for memorial.
- Accession No.
- 1994.2.2
- Name Access
- Bolgar, Marianne
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
Images
Form
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn78411
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- textual record
- Physical Description
- Form : Paper : printed, typed, handwritten : Ink : off-white, black, blue ; Ht: 29,7 cm x W: 20,8 cm
- Date
- January 31, 1991
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- textual record
- Physical Description
- Form : Paper : printed, typed, handwritten : Ink : off-white, black, blue ; Ht: 29,7 cm x W: 20,8 cm
- Other Title Information
- Documentary Artifact
- Date
- January 31, 1991
- Physical Condition
- Good
- Language
- German
- Notes
- 1 page. Two-sided. The document is a check-list. Two holes are punctured on the c.l. The paper has the official header of the Landesversicherungsanstalt Freie und Hansestadt Hamburg. Instructions are on the verso. The subject of the form is Renia Mondschein's retirement pension. Narrative: Renia Moszenberg, later Mondschein, was born in Kielce, Poland on 1924-08-08. In 1942-04, a ghetto was created in Kielce and Renia stayed in the Kielce ghetto until May 1943. She was then deported to Pionki's labour camp near Radom in Poland. From July 1944 to February 1945, she worked in a ammunition and weapon factory in a sub-camp of Auschwitz, known as Hindenburg (now Zabrze, Poland). Renia Moszenburg was committed to Concentration Camp Mittelbau-Dora, coming from Concentration Camp Auschwitz where she received the Prisoner Number: A 14 893, on 1945-01-28. She was brought to Nordhausen near Bergen-Belsen, Germany where, on 1945-04-14, she was liberated by the British armed forces. After the war, she lived in a Displaced Persons Camp in Germany where she met her husband Max Mondschein. She came to Canada in January 1948 and settled in Montreal.
- Accession No.
- 2014.23.29
- Name Access
- Janulaitis, Cynthia M.
- Places
- Hamburg, Germany, Europe
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
Images
Letter
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn78412
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- textual record
- Physical Description
- Letter : Paper : printed, handwritten : Ink : White, black, blue ; Ht: 29,7 cm x W: 20,9 cm
- Date
- January 31, 1991
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- textual record
- Physical Description
- Letter : Paper : printed, handwritten : Ink : White, black, blue ; Ht: 29,7 cm x W: 20,9 cm
- Other Title Information
- Documentary Artifact
- Date
- January 31, 1991
- Physical Condition
- Excellent
- Language
- German
- Notes
- 1 page. One-sided. The paper has the official header of the Landesversicherungsanstalt Freie und Hansestadt Hamburg.The letter was sent to Renia Mondschein concerning her retirement pension and the compensation she received. Narrative: Renia Moszenberg, later Mondschein, was born in Kielce, Poland on 1924-08-08. In 1942-04, a ghetto was created in Kielce and Renia stayed in the Kielce ghetto until May 1943. She was then deported to Pionki's labour camp near Radom in Poland. From July 1944 to February 1945, she worked in a ammunition and weapon factory in a sub-camp of Auschwitz, known as Hindenburg (now Zabrze, Poland). Renia Moszenburg was committed to Concentration Camp Mittelbau-Dora, coming from Concentration Camp Auschwitz where she received the Prisoner Number: A 14 893, on 1945-01-28. She was brought to Nordhausen near Bergen-Belsen, Germany where, on 1945-04-14, she was liberated by the British armed forces. After the war, she lived in a Displaced Persons Camp in Germany where she met her husband Max Mondschein. She came to Canada in January 1948 and settled in Montreal.
- Accession No.
- 2014.23.30
- Name Access
- Janulaitis, Cynthia M.
- Places
- Hamburg, Germany, Europe
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
Images
Lípa 1940-1945: P?eškolovací tabor – Umschulungslager Linden p?edehra k tragedii Zind? v Protektoráté Cech a Moravy
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn47760
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- textual record
- Physical Description
- Booklet : printed, bound, graphic arts, photography : blue, black,white ; Ht: 20,8 cm x W: 14,6 cm
- Date
- 1990
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- textual record
- Physical Description
- Booklet : printed, bound, graphic arts, photography : blue, black,white ; Ht: 20,8 cm x W: 14,6 cm
- Other Title Information
- Documentary Artifact
- Date
- 1990
- Physical Condition
- Good
- Language
- Czech
- Notes
- 24 pages. Soft cover, cardstock bound with staples. Cover is light blue with a black U and an outline L printed in the centre, and additional black text printed towards the bottom of the cover, above a Star of David. Interior pages are white with text, charts, b&w sketches and photocopied images.
- Accession No.
- 2011X.62.28
- Name Access
- Novak, Georges
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
Images
Postcard
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn59567
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- textual record
- Physical Description
- Postcard : Paper : Printed : Ink : Burgundy, beige, brown, amber, black ; Ht: 10 cm x W: 15 cm
- Date
- 1990
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- textual record
- Physical Description
- Postcard : Paper : Printed : Ink : Burgundy, beige, brown, amber, black ; Ht: 10 cm x W: 15 cm
- Other Title Information
- Documentary Artifact
- Date
- 1990
- Physical Condition
- Good
- Language
- Polish
- Notes
- Postcard format card with image on front and back divided between description, space for brief message, and address. Unused postcard contains images from a local glass artisan shop in Piotrkow Trybunalski, Poland. Narrative: Charles Kotkowsky was born in Piotrkow, Poland, in 1920. He was the son of a butcher, and had three siblings. He tried to immigrate to the USA as the Nazi persecution of Jews began, but he was unable to get the necessary documents in time. Meanwhile, he worked as a tailor in Lodz. The Germans entered Lodz on 1939/9/5 and had set up a ghetto by October. Charles worked in a glass factory, but eventually enlisted to avoid being used for forced labour. The Germans began rounding up Jews around Jewish holidays for labour or small transports for Auschwitz and Treblinka. At this time, he began receiving packages of letters and money from Ignac Samsonowicz, his old Yiddish teacher. The glass factory became a labour camp where Charles and his brother worked until they were sent to Czestochowa labour camp in November 1944. They made bullets in the factory there. The women in the glass factory were sent to Ravensbrück. Later Charles was sent to Buchenwald, where he and his friends were assigned easy jobs because their supervisor was a resistance sympathizer. Charles met Leon Blum before he was moved to Flossenburg. On their last transport train Charles and his brother jumped from the train along with many other Jews (some of which were shot in the attempt) and were sheltered in a Czechoslovakian town until the American army arrived. He moved to Italy where he worked as a translator, mostly in doctor's offices. He moved to Canada in 1951.He married Sally Blum, and they had two children, Pearl Levine and Rickie Cohen. Charles died from cancer on 2003/2/8 in Toronto, Canada.
- Accession No.
- 1998.7.29
- Name Access
- Kotkowsky, Charles
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
Images
Greeting Card
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn59827
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- textual record
- Physical Description
- Greeting Card : Paper : Handwritten : ink : Whhite, red, blue, pink, yellow ; Ht: 10 cm x W: 28 cm
- Date
- November 20, 1990
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- textual record
- Physical Description
- Greeting Card : Paper : Handwritten : ink : Whhite, red, blue, pink, yellow ; Ht: 10 cm x W: 28 cm
- Other Title Information
- Documentary Artifact
- Date
- November 20, 1990
- Physical Condition
- Good
- Language
- Hebrew
- Polish
- English
- French
- Notes
- Plain greeting card with scalloped edges, no image, folded in center. Airmail envelope with stamps to the value of 50 cents. Addressed to S. Burstein at 4875 Duffin Rd, Montreal. From N Schneier at 48 Thornton Ave. Venice California. Hanukkah card.
- Accession No.
- 2011X.91.04
- Name Access
- Burstein, Simon
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
Images
Yalkut Wolyn: Quarterly: Juwish Partisans about the Ukranians
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn47894
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- textual record
- Physical Description
- Journal : printed, bound, photography : beige, black, blue ; Ht: 23,8 cm x W: 17 cm
- Date
- April 1988
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- textual record
- Physical Description
- Journal : printed, bound, photography : beige, black, blue ; Ht: 23,8 cm x W: 17 cm
- Other Title Information
- Documentary Artifact
- Date
- April 1988
- Physical Condition
- Good
- Language
- English
- Hebrew
- Notes
- 56 pages; softcover with stapled binding; covers are blue. The title is written in Hebrew ? or Yiddish ? characters (needs verification); a solid round dot is printed on the centre right side, and just under is 13 lines of text (needs translation), with 1 line of English text at the bottom. The number 43 is printed at the bottom right corner. The interior pages are white; each page is arranged in 2 columns of text, with black and white photos throughout. Pages 47-56 are written in English. Narrative: This journal includes several articles like: “Jewish well known partisans about the Ukrainians”, “My Impressions and Experiences with Kruk” by Dov Lorber, “A Commander Practices what he preaches” by Asher Mirochnik, “A chapter of Events on passover” by Dov Bronstein, “A Hungry Boy” by Asher Flash, as well as testimonies of Holocaust experiences.
- Accession No.
- 2001.61.04
- Name Access
- Meltzer, Riva
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
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