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Arie van Mansum fonds

https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn101291
Collection
Arie van Mansum fonds
Description Level
Fonds
Material Type
textual record
graphic material
ephemera
Physical Description
21cm of textual records, 17 photographs
Fonds No.
I0022
Date
1940-2007
Scope and Content
Fonds consists of textual records, photographs, and ephemera. Series include Arie Van Mansum's experiences during WWII, his postwar experiences, personal accounts, correspondence, Margaretha Van Mansum, pamphlets, the Dutch Undeground movement, and Canada. Fonds also contains a framed certificate f…
Collection
Arie van Mansum fonds
Description Level
Fonds
Material Type
textual record
graphic material
ephemera
Physical Description
21cm of textual records, 17 photographs
Scope and Content
Fonds consists of textual records, photographs, and ephemera. Series include Arie Van Mansum's experiences during WWII, his postwar experiences, personal accounts, correspondence, Margaretha Van Mansum, pamphlets, the Dutch Undeground movement, and Canada. Fonds also contains a framed certificate from The Jewish Community Council of Ottawa to Arie van Mansum stating the establishment of the Arie van Mansum Holocaust Education Resource Project - 1991; a framed certificate in French and Hebrew, presented to Arie van Mansum by La Commission des Justes (Commission of the Righteous) in Jerusalem - November 3, 1969; and two large photo reproductions of a Dutch document presented to Arie van Mansum - 13 November 1945.
Date
1940-2007
Fonds No.
I0022
Storage Location
1 box in OS
History / Biographical
Arie (Harry) Hendricks van Mansum was born at Utrecht, Holland, on March 5, 1920 to Gerrit and Neeltje van Mansum. As a travelling salesman, Arie had a rail pass which allowed him to travel freely after the German occupation of the Netherlands. Arie began helping Jewish refugees in the Netherlands in 1938 and in 1940 at the age of 20, he became involved in the Dutch Resistance Movement. He distributed the Dutch underground newspaper "Free Netherlands," found safe homes to hide Jews, and established an underground transportation network to move Jewish refugees. He was also involved in the distribution of food stamps and false identification cards for the Jews in hiding. In 1952 he married Doris van Diggele and the couple emigrated to Ottawa in 1958 where he started an insurance company. The couple had three children, Ria, Gerrit, and Margaret. Doris died in 1970 and Arie later remarried with Annette van Loenen. Van Mansum went on to receive awards from St. Lawrence University, Yad Vashem, and the Government of Israel. In 1969, Yad Vashem recognized Arie van Mansum as Righteous Among the Nations. He was also the subject of a biography, "A Friend Among Enemies" by Janet Keith, in 1991. He died in Ottawa in 1999.
Notes
1. Donations came through Arie van Mansum’s will, dated February 28, 1998, and Ralph P. Euverman, his son-in-law. 2. Biographical information from the Ottawa Jewish Bulletin & Review, October 25, 1991. 3. "A Friend Among Enemies" donated on Shoah evening, April, 2003 by Ralph P. Euverman. 4. Preliminary online translations for the large photo reproductions of the Dutch document indicate a "Charter offered to Arie van Mansum for persons listed here...", "...thanks for...", "...during the occupancy years."
Archival / Genealogical
Archival Descriptions
Repository
Ottawa Jewish Archives
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World War II

https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn108798
Collection
Arie van Mansum fonds
Description Level
File
Fonds No.
I0022
Date
1940-1945
Scope and Content
File consists of textual records regarding Arie Van Mansum's experiences during World War II, including identity cards, prison forms, news clippings, and correspondence.
Collection
Arie van Mansum fonds
Description Level
File
Scope and Content
File consists of textual records regarding Arie Van Mansum's experiences during World War II, including identity cards, prison forms, news clippings, and correspondence.
Date
1940-1945
Fonds No.
I0022
Archival / Genealogical
Archival Descriptions
Repository
Ottawa Jewish Archives
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Post-war photograph of Arie van Mansum's mother.

https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn107193
Collection
Arie van Mansum fonds
Description Level
Item
Material Type
graphic material
Physical Description
1 photograph : b&w
Fonds No.
I0022; OJA 1-1057-01
Date
November 1945
Collection
Arie van Mansum fonds
Description Level
Item
Material Type
graphic material
Physical Description
1 photograph : b&w
Date
November 1945
Fonds No.
I0022
Item No.
OJA 1-1057-01
Storage Location
vault
Acquisition Source
Ralph Euverman
Notes
The group of people standing with his mother are those he helped hide during the war. Written in pen on verso of accompanying signature list is the date November 1945. On verso of photograph, written in pencil is, "c1945 His mother, H___y + friends he had hidden. Fritz lived with van Mansum during WWII - then moved to Israel." Ralph Euverman is Arie van Mansum's son-in-law.
Archival / Genealogical
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Repository
Ottawa Jewish Archives
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List of signatures of people Arie van Mansum helped during WWII.

https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn107194
Collection
Arie van Mansum fonds
Description Level
Item
Material Type
object
Physical Description
1 photograph : col.
Fonds No.
I0022; OJA 1-1057-02
Date
November 1945
Collection
Arie van Mansum fonds
Description Level
Item
Material Type
object
Physical Description
1 photograph : col.
Date
November 1945
Fonds No.
I0022
Item No.
OJA 1-1057-02
Storage Location
vault
History / Biographical
Ralph Euverman is Arie van Mansum's son in law.
Acquisition Source
Ralph Euverman
Notes
The date of November 1945 is written in pen on the back of the list. The signatures correspond with those Arie van Mansum helped hide during WWII. Image scanned is recto of list and one of two.
Related Material
The signature list is paired with a photograph, 1-1057-01; Scan is of the front of the paper, with several more signatures on the back (see 1-1057-03).
Archival / Genealogical
Archival Descriptions
Repository
Ottawa Jewish Archives
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List of signatures of people Arie van Mansum helped during WWII.

https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn107195
Collection
Arie van Mansum fonds
Description Level
Item
Material Type
object
Physical Description
1 photograph : col.
Fonds No.
I0022; OJA 1-1057-03
Date
November 1945
Collection
Arie van Mansum fonds
Description Level
Item
Material Type
object
Physical Description
1 photograph : col.
Date
November 1945
Fonds No.
I0022
Item No.
OJA 1-1057-03
Storage Location
vault
History / Biographical
Ralph Euverman is Arie van Mansum's son in law.
Acquisition Source
Ralph Euverman
Notes
The date of November 1945 is written in pen on the back of the list. The signatures correspond with those Arie van Mansum helped hide during WWII. Image scanned is verso of list and is two of two.
Related Material
The signature list is paired with a photograph, 1-1057-01; Scan is of the back of the paper, with more signatures on the front (see 1-1057-02).
Archival / Genealogical
Archival Descriptions
Repository
Ottawa Jewish Archives
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Derk van Assen, one of Arie van Mansum's cohorts during their underground work.

https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn107239
Collection
Arie van Mansum fonds
Description Level
Item
Material Type
graphic material
Physical Description
1 photograph : b&w
Fonds No.
I0022; OJA 1-1076-01
Date
[194-?]
Collection
Arie van Mansum fonds
Description Level
Item
Material Type
graphic material
Physical Description
1 photograph : b&w
Date
[194-?]
Fonds No.
I0022
Item No.
OJA 1-1076-01
Storage Location
vault
History / Biographical
Here is the biography of Derk van Assen from Yad Vashem's website: Derk and Berendina (known as Berendje) van Assen were very sociable people. Derk had been active in the illegal underground from the beginning of the war, initially without actually being a member of any organized resistance group. The van Assens had people hidden in their home, British airmen and Jews, even before the term “onderduikers” was coined. Derk was well known in Maastricht, Limburg, where he served as president of the Protestant-Christian tax officials union. During the war he was a member of the Versleyen group, a group of professional tax officials within the larger LO, as well as being a member of the Trouw*, the Christian national resistance organization. Derk had excellent contacts in Maastricht, where he collaborated closely with the Roman Catholic group headed by L.J. Roumen and with fellow protestant A.H. van Mansum*. He was motivated by Christian principles, which put great value on each individual in the eyes of God, and by a sense of patriotism. He was also a humanist who saw all people as equal and was prepared to risk everything to save the lives of Jews and others. Using his many talents Derk contributed during the war to illegal newspapers, organized national information networks and offered professional document forgers a place to work in his home. Derk and Berendje were friendly with Isidore and Frederika Schaap, who had come to Maastricht in 1939. Isidore headed a branch of a commercial firm that was based in Rotterdam and Berendje was one of his customers. The Schaaps had one teenage daughter named Hetty. The Schaaps were Jewish but they were very assimilated and sometimes attended the local Dutch Reformed Church with the van Assens on Sunday mornings. In the summer of 1942, the Schaaps were ordered to report for deportation and Derk helped them find a place to hide. They spent their first couple of nights hiding with a family who owned an optician’s shop in Maastricht. During this time their identity cards were altered and the “J” removed, thereby allowing them the freedom to travel with less risk. The following day, the Schaaps took a train to Utrecht, to the home of one of Derk’s cousins. They soon moved to a family in Hillegom, South Holland, also relations of the van Assens. The Schaap family was then forced to split up and Isidore and Frederika moved to Amsterdam, where they were later arrested. The couple perished in Auschwitz. In the meantime, Hetty, after moving around between Hillegom and Diemen (where she stayed with relatives of the van Assens who had to let her go after her parents were arrested), was taken to Apeldoorn, Gelderland. In Apeldoorn she found shelter from October 1942 until December 1943, when it was no longer safe to be hiding with anyone connected with Derk van Assen. Hetty then moved down the street to the home of the Reverend Visser. At this address, she was equipped with a false identity card that enabled her to move about freely for the remainder of the war. On July 26, 1943, Derk was arrested in Maastricht after having been shadowed for some time by the SD, who had induced a resistance activist, nicknamed Blonde Mien, to work for them. Mien was employed to gather information about Derk’s contacts, but before she could do so Derk was apprehended and incarcerated in the local prison. In this prison, Oberscharfuehrer Richard Nitsch interrogated Derk for seven weeks, during which time Derk’s colleagues were planning his escape. However, the authorities discovered the plot and to abort it Nitsch and two other SD men executed Derk in Horst, Limburg, on September 13, 1943. In the meantime, Berendje had also been arrested and imprisoned, initially in Maastricht, then in Haaren, and finally in Vught, from where she was deported to the Ravensbrück camp in Germany, where she died on February 2, 1945. Throughout the war, Derk and Berendje had acted daringly and in disregard of their own safety. After the war, Derk and Berendje were honored by the Air Chief Marshal and Deputy Supreme Commander of the Allied Expeditionary Force for “the help given to sailors, soldiers, and airmen of the British Commonwealth of Nations, which enabled them to escape from or evade capture by the enemy.” On September 6, 1989, Yad Vashem recognized Derk van Assen as Righteous Among the Nations.
Acquisition Source
Ralph Euverman
Notes
Derk van Assen was murdered by the Nazi's in prison on September 14, 1943, after learning of a plot to break him out.
Archival / Genealogical
Archival Descriptions
Repository
Ottawa Jewish Archives
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Derk van Assen's grave.

https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn107240
Collection
Arie van Mansum fonds
Description Level
Item
Material Type
graphic material
Physical Description
1 photograph : b&w
Fonds No.
I0022; OJA 1-1076-02
Date
[195-?]
Collection
Arie van Mansum fonds
Description Level
Item
Material Type
graphic material
Physical Description
1 photograph : b&w
Date
[195-?]
Fonds No.
I0022
Item No.
OJA 1-1076-02
Storage Location
vault
History / Biographical
Derk was born October 9, 1891 and died September 14, 1943.
Acquisition Source
Ralph Euverman
Notes
The writing on his grave reads, " On 14 September 1943. Here was shot by the Germans, Derk van Assen. Born 9 October 1891." Derk was a cohort of Arie van Mansum during their underground work during the war.
Archival / Genealogical
Archival Descriptions
Repository
Ottawa Jewish Archives
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Post war funeral for Derk van Assen.

https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn107241
Collection
Arie van Mansum fonds
Description Level
Item
Material Type
graphic material
Physical Description
1 photograph : b&w
Fonds No.
I0022; OJA 1-1076-03
Date
[194-?]
Collection
Arie van Mansum fonds
Description Level
Item
Material Type
graphic material
Physical Description
1 photograph : b&w
Date
[194-?]
Fonds No.
I0022
Item No.
OJA 1-1076-03
Storage Location
vault
Acquisition Source
Ralph Euverman
Notes
Funeral was held in Derk van Assen's home north of Holland.
Archival / Genealogical
Archival Descriptions
Repository
Ottawa Jewish Archives
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Post war funeral for Derk van Assen.

https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn107242
Collection
Arie van Mansum fonds
Description Level
Item
Material Type
graphic material
Physical Description
1 photograph : b&w
Fonds No.
I0022; OJA 1-1076-04
Date
[194-?]
Collection
Arie van Mansum fonds
Description Level
Item
Material Type
graphic material
Physical Description
1 photograph : b&w
Date
[194-?]
Fonds No.
I0022
Item No.
OJA 1-1076-04
Storage Location
vault
Acquisition Source
Ralph Euverman
Notes
Funeral was held in Derk van Assen's home north of Holland.
Archival / Genealogical
Archival Descriptions
Repository
Ottawa Jewish Archives
Images
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Arie van Mansum's tree as a sapling.

https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn107243
Collection
Arie van Mansum fonds
Description Level
Item
Material Type
graphic material
Physical Description
1 photograph : col.
Fonds No.
I0022; OJA 1-1077-01
Date
1981
Collection
Arie van Mansum fonds
Description Level
Item
Material Type
graphic material
Physical Description
1 photograph : col.
Date
1981
Fonds No.
I0022
Item No.
OJA 1-1077-01
Storage Location
vault
Acquisition Source
Ralph Euverman
Notes
The tree was planted in 1981. The tree was planted in Arie van Mansum's honour at Yad Vashem in Israel.
Archival / Genealogical
Archival Descriptions
Repository
Ottawa Jewish Archives
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The Ottawa Mission in front of Arie van Mansum's tree.

https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn107244
Collection
Arie van Mansum fonds
Description Level
Item
Material Type
graphic material
Physical Description
1 photograph : col.
Fonds No.
I0022; OJA 1-1077-02
Date
[200-?]
Collection
Arie van Mansum fonds
Description Level
Item
Material Type
graphic material
Physical Description
1 photograph : col.
Date
[200-?]
Fonds No.
I0022
Item No.
OJA 1-1077-02
Storage Location
vault
Acquisition Source
Mitchell Bellman
Notes
The tree was planted in his honour at Yad Vashem in Israel. Mitchell Bellman is standing close to the camera, on the right of the image in the white cap and blue shirt.
Archival / Genealogical
Archival Descriptions
Repository
Ottawa Jewish Archives
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Aerial view of the "Groot Seminaire te Haaren" - Great Seminary of Haaren.

https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn107245
Collection
Arie van Mansum fonds
Description Level
Item
Material Type
graphic material
Physical Description
1 photograph : b&w
Fonds No.
I0022; OJA 1-1078-01
Date
[194-?]
Collection
Arie van Mansum fonds
Description Level
Item
Material Type
graphic material
Physical Description
1 photograph : b&w
Date
[194-?]
Fonds No.
I0022
Item No.
OJA 1-1078-01
Storage Location
vault
Acquisition Source
Ralph Euverman
Notes
From 1941 to 1944 the Great Seminary in Haaren was used first as hostage camp, and then later as a prison camp. Thousands of people were imprisoned there. Arie van Mansum was kept in Haaren for approximately a year, with six months in solitary confinement. He was 23 at the time.
Related Material
Images 1-1078-02, 1-1078-03, 1-1078-04
Archival / Genealogical
Archival Descriptions
Repository
Ottawa Jewish Archives
Images
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Aerial view of the "Groot Seminaire te Haaren" - Great Seminary of Haaren.

https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn107246
Collection
Arie van Mansum fonds
Description Level
Item
Material Type
graphic material
Physical Description
1 photograph : b&w
Fonds No.
I0022; OJA 1-1078-02
Date
[194-?]
Collection
Arie van Mansum fonds
Description Level
Item
Material Type
graphic material
Physical Description
1 photograph : b&w
Date
[194-?]
Fonds No.
I0022
Item No.
OJA 1-1078-02
Storage Location
vault
Acquisition Source
Ralph Euverman
Notes
From 1941 to 1944 the Great Seminary in Haaren was used first as hostage camp, and then later as a prison camp. Thousands of people were imprisoned there. Arie van Mansum was kept in Haaren for approximately a year, with six months in solitary confinement. He was 23 at the time.
Related Material
Images 1-1078-01, 1-1078-03, 1-1078-04
Archival / Genealogical
Archival Descriptions
Repository
Ottawa Jewish Archives
Images
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One of the cells within the "Groot Seminaire te Haaren" - Great Seminary of Haaren prison.

https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn107247
Collection
Arie van Mansum fonds
Description Level
Item
Material Type
graphic material
Physical Description
1 photograph : b&w
Fonds No.
I0022; OJA 1-1078-03
Date
[194-?]
Collection
Arie van Mansum fonds
Description Level
Item
Material Type
graphic material
Physical Description
1 photograph : b&w
Date
[194-?]
Fonds No.
I0022
Item No.
OJA 1-1078-03
Storage Location
vault
Acquisition Source
Ralph Euverman
Notes
From 1941 to 1944 the Great Seminary in Haaren was used first as hostage camp, and then later as a prison camp. Thousands of people were imprisoned there. Arie van Mansum was kept in Haaren for approximately a year, with six months in solitary confinement. He was 23 at the time.
Related Material
Images 1-1078-01, 1-1078-02, 1-1078-04
Archival / Genealogical
Archival Descriptions
Repository
Ottawa Jewish Archives
Images
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One of the cells within the "Groot Seminaire te Haaren" - Great Seminary of Haaren prison.

https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn107248
Collection
Arie van Mansum fonds
Description Level
Item
Material Type
graphic material
Physical Description
1 photograph : b&w
Fonds No.
I0022; OJA 1-1078-04
Date
[194-?]
Collection
Arie van Mansum fonds
Description Level
Item
Material Type
graphic material
Physical Description
1 photograph : b&w
Date
[194-?]
Fonds No.
I0022
Item No.
OJA 1-1078-04
Storage Location
vault
Acquisition Source
Ralph Euverman
Notes
From 1941 to 1944 the Great Seminary in Haaren was used first as hostage camp, and then later as a prison camp. Thousands of people were imprisoned there. Arie van Mansum was kept in Haaren for approximately a year, with six months in solitary confinement. He was 23 at the time.
Related Material
Images 1-1078-01, 1-1078-02, 1-1078-03
Archival / Genealogical
Archival Descriptions
Repository
Ottawa Jewish Archives
Images
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Fritz Freilich.

https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn107249
Collection
Arie van Mansum fonds
Description Level
Item
Material Type
graphic material
Physical Description
1 photograph : b&w
Fonds No.
I0022; OJA 1-1079-01
Date
1945
Collection
Arie van Mansum fonds
Description Level
Item
Material Type
graphic material
Physical Description
1 photograph : b&w
Date
1945
Fonds No.
I0022
Item No.
OJA 1-1079-01
Storage Location
vault
Acquisition Source
Ralph Euverman
Notes
Fritz Freilich was a man that Arie van Mansum helped to hide during the war.
Archival / Genealogical
Archival Descriptions
Repository
Ottawa Jewish Archives
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Fritz Freilich with the van Mansum family.

https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn107250
Collection
Arie van Mansum fonds
Description Level
Item
Material Type
graphic material
Physical Description
1 photograph : b&w
Fonds No.
I0022; OJA 1-1079-02
Date
November 1945
Collection
Arie van Mansum fonds
Description Level
Item
Material Type
graphic material
Physical Description
1 photograph : b&w
Date
November 1945
Fonds No.
I0022
Item No.
OJA 1-1079-02
Storage Location
vault
Acquisition Source
Ralph Euverman
Notes
Fritz is standing, middle. The Mansum family helped to hide him during the war. Photo was taken at a synagogue banquet in Arie's honour.
Archival / Genealogical
Archival Descriptions
Repository
Ottawa Jewish Archives
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Arie van Mansum being honoured at a post war ceremony in Holland.

https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn107251
Collection
Arie van Mansum fonds
Description Level
Item
Material Type
graphic material
Physical Description
1 photograph : b&w
Fonds No.
I0022; OJA 1-1080-01
Date
November 1945
Collection
Arie van Mansum fonds
Description Level
Item
Material Type
graphic material
Physical Description
1 photograph : b&w
Date
November 1945
Fonds No.
I0022
Item No.
OJA 1-1080-01
Storage Location
vault
Acquisition Source
Ralph Euverman
Notes
L-R: Standing: Rabbi of the synagogue; sitting: __, Margaretha van Mansum, Arie van Mansum, Mr. and Mrs. van Mansum. This image is of the psot-war ceremony honouring Arie van Mansum for his work in heling to hide and save Jews. Arie was presented with a portrait and a certificate listing the names of those he had helped to save. The photograph was taken in a synagogue in Maastricht.
Archival / Genealogical
Archival Descriptions
Repository
Ottawa Jewish Archives
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Arie van Mansum receiving the portrait and certificate at the post war ceremony in Holland.

https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn107252
Collection
Arie van Mansum fonds
Description Level
Item
Material Type
graphic material
Physical Description
1 photograph : b&w
Fonds No.
I0022; OJA 1-1080-02
Date
November 1945
Collection
Arie van Mansum fonds
Description Level
Item
Material Type
graphic material
Physical Description
1 photograph : b&w
Date
November 1945
Fonds No.
I0022
Item No.
OJA 1-1080-02
Storage Location
vault
Acquisition Source
Ralph Euverman
Notes
Arie was presented with a portrait and a certificate listing the names of those he had helped to save. The Rabbi of the synagogue is standing in the very bottom right of the image. The photograph was taken in a synagogue in Maastricht.
Related Material
Images 1-1080-01, 1-1080-03
Archival / Genealogical
Archival Descriptions
Repository
Ottawa Jewish Archives
Images
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Portrait painted by Charles Eyck, of Arie van Mansum, in his honour.

https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn107253
Collection
Arie van Mansum fonds
Description Level
Item
Material Type
graphic material
Fonds No.
I0022; OJA 1-1080-03
Date
November 1945
Collection
Arie van Mansum fonds
Description Level
Item
Material Type
graphic material
Date
November 1945
Fonds No.
I0022
Item No.
OJA 1-1080-03
Storage Location
vault
Acquisition Source
Ralph Euverman
Related Material
Images 1-1080-01, 1-1080-02
Archival / Genealogical
Archival Descriptions
Repository
Ottawa Jewish Archives
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