Signpost for mass grave
https://www.cjhn.ca/en/permalink/cjhn90305
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Format
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- Photograph : Paper : Printed : photograph : b&w ; Ht: 7.4 cm x W: 6.6 cm
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
1 image
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Format
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- Photograph : Paper : Printed : photograph : b&w ; Ht: 7.4 cm x W: 6.6 cm
- Other Title Information
- Documentary Artifact
- Date
- [ca. 1945]
- Physical Condition
- Good
- Language
- English
- Notes
- Large white border. Outdoor photograph of a signpost. The inscription on it reads: Grave No. 3/Approx. 5,000/24rd April 1945. The sign is in front of field and is placed below the level of the field. There is a building in the background Narrative: The RCAF, Royal Canadian Air Force, participated in the liberation of Bergen-Belsen. The donor, Lucien Benoit, was a member of the Royal Canadian Air Force, which participated in the liberation of Bergen-Belsen.
- Accession No.
- 1991.08.03
- Name Access
- Benoit, Lucien
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
Images
Mass Grave at Bergen-Belsen
https://www.cjhn.ca/en/permalink/cjhn76648
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Format
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- Photograph : paper ; Ht: 7,1 cm x W: 10 cm
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
1 image
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Format
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- Photograph : paper ; Ht: 7,1 cm x W: 10 cm
- Other Title Information
- Documentary Artifact
- Physical Condition
- Good
- Notes
- B&w photograph with a white border. An outdoor portrait of a mass grave at Bergen-Belsen. The bodies are piled in a large heap. Narrative: A collection of photographs was brought back to Canada by RAF soldier Frank Wilshaw, who visited the Bergen-Belsen concentrationcamp after Liberation.
- Accession No.
- 2012.05.04
- Name Access
- Stobnicky, Arnie
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
Images
Mass Grave at Bergen-Belsen
https://www.cjhn.ca/en/permalink/cjhn76653
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Format
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- Photograph : paper ; Ht: 7 cm x W: 9,9 cm
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
1 image
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Format
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- Photograph : paper ; Ht: 7 cm x W: 9,9 cm
- Other Title Information
- Documentary Artifact
- Physical Condition
- Poor
- Notes
- B&w photograph with a white border. An outdoor portrait of a mass grave at Bergen-Belsen. The bodies are piled in a large heap. Two men are standing in the grave, probably SS personnel that were burying the corpses. Narrative: A collection of photographs was brought back to Canada by RAF soldier Frank Wilshaw, who visited the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp after Liberation.
- Accession No.
- 2012.05.09
- Name Access
- Stobnicky, Arnie
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
Images
Mass Grave at Bergen-Belsen
https://www.cjhn.ca/en/permalink/cjhn76661
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Format
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- Photograph : paper ; Ht: 7 cm x W: 10 cm
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
1 image
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Format
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- Photograph : paper ; Ht: 7 cm x W: 10 cm
- Other Title Information
- Documentary Artifact
- Physical Condition
- Poor
- Notes
- B&w photograph with a white border. An outdoor portrait of a mass grave at Bergen-Belsen. A barbed wire fence is running along the right side into the distance. In the background, three soldiers are visible. Narrative: A collection of photographs was brought back to Canada by RAF soldier Frank Wilshaw, who visited the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp after Liberation.
- Accession No.
- 2012.05.17
- Name Access
- Stobnicky, Arnie
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
Images
Mass Grave at Bergen-Belsen
https://www.cjhn.ca/en/permalink/cjhn76663
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Format
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- Photograph : paper ; Ht: 7 cm x W: 10 cm
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
1 image
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Format
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- Photograph : paper ; Ht: 7 cm x W: 10 cm
- Other Title Information
- Documentary Artifact
- Physical Condition
- Poor
- Notes
- B&w photograph with a white border. An outdoor portrait of a mass grave at Bergen-Belsen. The bodies are piled in a large heap. Narrative: A collection of photographs was brought back to Canada by RAF soldier Frank Wilshaw, who visited the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp after Liberation.
- Accession No.
- 2012.05.19
- Name Access
- Stobnicky, Arnie
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
Images
Mass Grave at Bergen-Belsen
https://www.cjhn.ca/en/permalink/cjhn76668
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Format
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- Photograph : paper ; Ht: 7 cm x W: 10 cm
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
1 image
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Format
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- Photograph : paper ; Ht: 7 cm x W: 10 cm
- Other Title Information
- Documentary Artifact
- Physical Condition
- Poor
- Notes
- B&w photograph with a white border. An outdoor portrait of a mass grave at Bergen-Belsen. The bodies are piled in a heap. In the background, there is a small building. Narrative: A collection of photographs was brought back to Canada by RAF soldier Frank Wilshaw, who visited the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp after Liberation.
- Accession No.
- 2012.05.24
- Name Access
- Stobnicky, Arnie
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
Images
Mass grave for victims of anti-Jewish activity in Palestine
https://www.cjhn.ca/en/permalink/cjhn42854
- Collection
- Canadian Jewish Congress organizational records
- Description Level
- File
- Material Format
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : b&w
- Fonds No.
- CJC0001; P; PC 01-08-026
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
1 image
- Description Level
- File
- Material Format
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : b&w
- Date
- 1921
- Fonds No.
- CJC0001
- Series No.
- P
- File No.
- PC 01-08-026
- Subjects
- Palestine
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Canadian Jewish Archives
Images
Postwar Ceremony at Mass Grave Site, Burial of Soap
https://www.cjhn.ca/en/permalink/cjhn60157
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Format
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- Photograph : Paper : b&w ; Ht: 6 cm x W: 8.7 cm
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
2 images
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Format
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- Photograph : Paper : b&w ; Ht: 6 cm x W: 8.7 cm
- Other Title Information
- Documentary Artifact
- Date
- 1948
- Physical Condition
- Good
- Language
- Polish
- Notes
- Outside, a group of people are standing around a mass grave site, mostly men, a few women. Four men have shovels and are burying soap. Photograph was taken during postwar ceremonies held during the week-ends at different mass graves sites. Ely Rozenblat is shown second from the upper-right hand side wearing a light-colored coat and hat. Narrative: Donor is the son of Ely Rozenblat (born 1913-10-10 in Zamosc, Poland) and Zelda (maiden name Kozlowska, born 1915-09-09 in Lodz, Poland, grew up in Zamosc). The Rozenblat family was originally from Zamosc. They spoke Polish, Yiddish, German and Russian. While Zamosc was bombed in September 1939, the family hid in the grandparents’ basement. A German soldier found them and advised them to leave, warning them about SS troops coming to kill Jews. The family escaped to Russia and was sent to Samarkand, Uzbekistan. In 1941-1942, 9 members of the family died of starvation in Samarkand, including Ely’s first wife Hannah (who was Zelda’s sister) and Zelda’s first husband. In 1942-1943, the family was transferred to Siberia where they stayed until the end of the war. The surviving family members went back to Poland after the Liberation. Ely’s older sister was in a Displaced Persons’ Camp in Austria and moved to Montreal. The rest of the family immigrated to Israel between 1948 and 1954. Ely and Zelda stayed in Poland where they had a son, Henry (b. 1947) and a daughter born in 1949. Ely was a fervent Communist who believed in creating an idyllic communist life in Poland.ted to Israel between 1948 and 1954. Ely, Zelda and their children finally immigrated to Montreal, arriving on March 24, 1960. Ely found a job with friends from Poland, he worked as a butcher in a shop across from St. Michael’s church on St-Viateur Street in Montreal.
- Accession No.
- 2013.16.02
- Name Access
- Rozenblat, Henry
- Places
- Wroclaw, Poland, Europe
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
Images
Postwar Ceremony at Mass Grave Site, Burial of Soap
https://www.cjhn.ca/en/permalink/cjhn60159
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Format
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- Photograph : Paper : b&w ; Ht: 6 cm x W: 8.7 cm
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
1 image
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Format
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- Photograph : Paper : b&w ; Ht: 6 cm x W: 8.7 cm
- Other Title Information
- Documentary Artifact
- Physical Condition
- Good
- Language
- Polish
- Notes
- Outside, a group of people are standing around a mass grave site. Five men have shovels and are burying soap. Photograph was taken during postwar ceremonies held during the week-ends at different mass graves sites. Ely Rozenblat is shown in the middle with a light-colored coat and hat. Narrative: Donor is the son of Ely Rozenblat (born 1913-10-10 in Zamosc, Poland) and Zelda (maiden name Kozlowska, born 1915-09-09 in Lodz, Poland, grew up in Zamosc). The Rozenblat family was originally from Zamosc. They spoke Polish, Yiddish, German and Russian. While Zamosc was bombed in September 1939, the family hid in the grandparents’ basement. A German soldier found them and advised them to leave, warning them about SS troops coming to kill Jews. The family escaped to Russia and was sent to Samarkand, Uzbekistan. In 1941-1942, 9 members of the family died of starvation in Samarkand, including Ely’s first wife Hannah (who was Zelda’s sister) and Zelda’s first husband. In 1942-1943, the family was transferred to Siberia where they stayed until the end of the war. The surviving family members went back to Poland after the Liberation. Ely’s older sister was in a Displaced Persons’ Camp in Austria and moved to Montreal. The rest of the family immigrated to Israel between 1948 and 1954. Ely and Zelda stayed in Poland where they had a son, Henry (b. 1947) and a daughter born in 1949. Ely was a fervent Communist who believed in creating an idyllic communist life in Poland.ted to Israel between 1948 and 1954. Ely, Zelda and their children finally immigrated to Montreal, arriving on March 24, 1960. Ely found a job with friends from Poland, he worked as a butcher in a shop across from St. Michael’s church on St-Viateur Street in Montreal.
- Accession No.
- 2013.16.04
- Name Access
- Rozenblat, Henry
- Places
- Wroclaw, Poland, Europe
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
Images
Mass Graves at Bergen-Belsen
https://www.cjhn.ca/en/permalink/cjhn76655
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Format
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- Photograph : paper ; Ht: 7 cm x W: 9,9 cm
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
1 image
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Format
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- Photograph : paper ; Ht: 7 cm x W: 9,9 cm
- Other Title Information
- Documentary Artifact
- Physical Condition
- Poor
- Notes
- B&w photograph with a white border. A outdoor portrait of mounds of dirt atop mass graves that are roped off with wire. A small sign is perched on each grave. Narrative: A collection of photographs was brought back to Canada by RAF soldier Frank Wilshaw, who visited the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp after Liberation.
- Accession No.
- 2012.05.11
- Name Access
- Stobnicky, Arnie
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
Images
