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- 39th Henry Hank Torontow Scouts fonds 135
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Sidney Ofner Collection
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn16718
- Collection
- Sidney Ofner Collection
- Description Level
- Fonds
- Material Type
- multiple media
- Physical Description
- 2 folders of textual material ; 1 CD
- Date
- 1992-1995
- Scope and Content
- Contains the publication Sidney Ofner: A Soldier’s Story, 1942-1944, compiled by Suzan Horovitch, as well as copies of the letters written by Sidney Ofner and a CD copy of the book.
- Collection
- Sidney Ofner Collection
- Description Level
- Fonds
- Material Type
- multiple media
- Physical Description
- 2 folders of textual material ; 1 CD
- Scope and Content
- Contains the publication Sidney Ofner: A Soldier’s Story, 1942-1944, compiled by Suzan Horovitch, as well as copies of the letters written by Sidney Ofner and a CD copy of the book.
- Date
- 1992-1995
- Storage Location
- 7-3C
- Creator
- Suzan Horovitch
- History / Biographical
- In 1993 Suzan Horovitch (née Green) began the task of typing out her uncle Sidney Ofner’s letters, written home to Montreal during his station in Europe in World War II. Sidney Ofner was in Italy when he was killed supporting a trench on January 15, 1944. Suzan Horovitch and her husband Art spent several years compiling into a book the letters as well as official Canadian Forces correspondence regarding Sidney. The Horovitch’s also tracked down and contacted several veterans whom had served with Sidney in order to gather all information possible on his time in the army and his death. Sidney Ofner was the only son of Alexander and Tillie Ofner, both of Montreal. Mr. Ofner ran a women’s ready-to-wear garment store, in which Sidney also worked. He was a graduate of Strathcona Academy. Sidney enlisted in the Victoria Rifles of Canada in 1942, going overseas in 1943. He was later stationed to North Africa with a reinforcement regiment and then with the Royal Canadian Regiment in Italy in the fall of 1943. Sidney’s sister Marjorie, mother of Leona (mentioned in the letters) and Suzan) saved all of the letters from her brother.
- Custodial History
- Transferred to the JPL-A by Suzan Horovitch
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Jewish Public Library Archives
Helfield/Gallay Fonds
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn16735
- Collection
- Helfield/Gallay Fonds
- Description Level
- Fonds
- Material Type
- multiple media
- Physical Description
- 0.33m textual records ; 200 photographs ; 60 artefacts
- Date
- ca189[?]-ca198[?]
- Scope and Content
- Series 1 and series 2 include textual records arranged chronologically. Series 3 consists of group photographs related to Wilfred Gallay’s professional life and a group of family snapshots dating mostly from the 1920s. Series 4 consists of religious objects, and kitchen and tailoring artefact…
- Collection
- Helfield/Gallay Fonds
- Description Level
- Fonds
- Material Type
- multiple media
- Physical Description
- 0.33m textual records ; 200 photographs ; 60 artefacts
- Scope and Content
- Series 1 and series 2 include textual records arranged chronologically. Series 3 consists of group photographs related to Wilfred Gallay’s professional life and a group of family snapshots dating mostly from the 1920s. Series 4 consists of religious objects, and kitchen and tailoring artefacts documenting the spiritual, domestic and professional life of members of the Helfield and Gallay families over more than a century.
- Date
- ca189[?]-ca198[?]
- Storage Location
- Bay 3
- History / Biographical
- Tylia Helfield Tylia Helfield was born in Montreal in 1934. She received her (BFA) from Concordia University in. She is a writer, printmaker and artist. Eric Sidney Helfield Eric Sidney Helfield was born in Montreal in 1931. (where he lived and went to school) He was awarded a Bachelor’s degree in 1952 and a (BCL, 1955) from McGill University. He was a barrister and served for 14 years, between 1976 and 1990, as councilor of the former City of Côte-Saint-Luc. Eric Helfield died 3 October 1992 in Montreal. Marks Ellis Marks Ellis was born in Lithuania in 1873. A tailor by trade, he immigrated via London to Montreal in 1895, accompanied by his wife Mary. He established Bellingham Cleaners in the 1930s, at the corner of Bellingham and Maplewood streets (now rue Vincent-d’Indy and boulevard Edouard-Montpetit) and operated the business for two years. He worked as a tailor during the Second World War for Sterling Clothing on Park Avenue, and at Scott’s Clothing. In 1927, Ellis was involved in the founding of the United Commercial Loan Syndicate, formed by Jewish businessmen who gave loans at low interest rates to Jewish immigrants. He was also one of the founders of the Congregation Shaare Zedek in Montreal. He retired in 1956 at the age of 82 and died in Montreal on 26 December 1965. Ellis was the maternal grandfather of Eric Helfield. Children: Barnett, Mildred, Samuel. Brother of Bluma Ellis. Wilfred Gallay (Dr) Wilfred Gallay was born 10 June 1906 in Hawkesbury, Ontario. He went to elementary school and later obtained a First Class Teacher’s Certificate in Calgary, Alberta. Gallay studied chemistry at McGill University in Montreal, and was awarded a Ph.D. in 1930. He carried out post-doctoral research at the University of Leipzig and at the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute in Berlin, Germany. On his return to Canada, he worked at the National Research Council in Ottawa, becoming head of the Section on Colloids and Plastics. From 1944 to 1953, he was a consultant to Canadian and American firms and from 1953 until his retirement in 1971, he was Director of Research and Member of the Board of Directors of the E. B. Eddy Company in Hull, Quebec. In the course of his career, Gallay published some 85 scientific papers chiefly in the field of colloid or surface chemistry and was the recipient of several fellowships, awards and honours, including the Bolton Award the Technical Section Medal from the Canadian Pulp and Paper Association, and the Plummer Medal of the Engineering Institute of Canada. Gallay was also involved with several scientific organizations and served namely on various committees of the Canadian Pulp and Paper Association and as Secretary General of the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry. He was a prominent member of the Jewish community in Ottawa. Wilfred Gallay married Birdie Silver in 19xx, and was the father of Tylia Helfied. He died in Toronto.
- Language
- English, Yiddish, Hebrew
- Custodial History
- Donated by Tilya Helfield
- Notes
- Further accurals expected.
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Jewish Public Library Archives
Copper Portrait Collection
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn33802
- Collection
- Copper Portrait Collection
- Description Level
- Fonds
- Material Type
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- 4 framed copper portraits
- Scope and Content
- The collection consists of four copper portraits of prominent Jewish leaders Theodor Herzl (2), Nahum Sokolow and Chaim Weizmann. The portraits were given out as subscription premiums by the Jewish Daily Eagle and Canadian Jewish Chronicle.
- Collection
- Copper Portrait Collection
- Description Level
- Fonds
- Material Type
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- 4 framed copper portraits
- Scope and Content
- The collection consists of four copper portraits of prominent Jewish leaders Theodor Herzl (2), Nahum Sokolow and Chaim Weizmann. The portraits were given out as subscription premiums by the Jewish Daily Eagle and Canadian Jewish Chronicle.
- Storage Location
- JPL
- Language
- English
- Yiddish
- Name Access
- Herzl, Theodor
- Sokolow, Nahum
- Weizmann, Chaim
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Jewish Public Library Archives
Charles and Ninel Segal Fonds
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn17146
- Collection
- Charles and Ninel Segal Fonds
- Description Level
- Fonds
- Material Type
- multiple media
- Physical Description
- 0.5 m textual material
- Date
- 1934-2008
- Scope and Content
- Fonds consists of correspondence, minutes, memoranda, speeches, articles and ephemera dealing with the Segals' professional and personal lives. Also contains numerous historical articles and speeches written and presented by Charles Segal. Numerous photographs illustrating this work also containe…
- Collection
- Charles and Ninel Segal Fonds
- Description Level
- Fonds
- Material Type
- multiple media
- Physical Description
- 0.5 m textual material
- Scope and Content
- Fonds consists of correspondence, minutes, memoranda, speeches, articles and ephemera dealing with the Segals' professional and personal lives. Also contains numerous historical articles and speeches written and presented by Charles Segal. Numerous photographs illustrating this work also contained within the fonds.
- Date
- 1934-2008
- Storage Location
- 5-5G
- Creator
- Charles and Ninel Segal
- History / Biographical
- Charles Segal was born in Montreal on November 27, 1921 to Hyman Manuel Segal and Fanny (Moscovitch). Mr. Segal's fonds includes numerous details of his decades of work in the political world - from his days of journalism here in Canada and in the U.S., to his role in Histadrut, his meetings with President Truman and work with Oscar Ewing, his work with fair employment practices with the Construction Fund of the State University of New York and so on. Segal married his wife Ninel (Bercovitch) in 1979 and she also has been heavily involved in work in Congressman Mike McNulty. More details are available within the fonds.
- Custodial History
- Transferred directly from Charles Segal to the JPL-A starting in 2006. Further accurals expected.
- Notes
- Fonds also includes photographs, currently awaiting arrangement and description into the JPL Photograph Database.
- Access Restrictions
- Restriction on File 006, manuscript of Mr. Segal's biography, marked as so on file.
- Subjects
- Veterans, Jewish - Canada
- Segal, Charles
- Segal, Ninel (Bercovitch)
- Israel
- Israel - Foreign public opinion
- Israel - Foreign relations
- United States. Congress.
- Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Jewish Public Library Archives
Holocaust survivors playing in a band in Munich
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn45464
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- Photograph : paper : photography : Ink : black, white ; Ht: 7,75 in. x W: 10,25 in.
- Date
- 1946
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- Photograph : paper : photography : Ink : black, white ; Ht: 7,75 in. x W: 10,25 in.
- Other Title Information
- Documentary Artifact
- Date
- 1946
- Physical Condition
- Excellent
- Language
- Yiddish
- German
- English
- Notes
- White border. Indoors. Group of musicians wearing camp prisoner uniforms and performing a concert in Munich for American soldiers and UJA staff. Behind them is a 2-dimensional cardboard backdrop made up of a large palm tree, a column, and a section of barbed wire fence on which there are two Stars of David, one in German and one in Yiddish. A series of large paper Yiddish letters decorate the front of the stage and read "Am Yisrael Chai" (the nation of Israel lives). The musicians are members of The Saint Ottilien Ex-Concentration Camp Orchestra. Pictured from left to right are Max Beker (violin), Max Borstein (violin), Melech Granat (drums), Jerzy Richter (voice), Fania Beker (piano) and Rala Wolfberg (clarinet). Narrative: The leader of the orchestra was Michel Hofmekler. The musicians played every Sunday in the Kovno ghetto. The donor, Etta Kaplan, was a spectator at the Nuremberg trials.
- Accession No.
- 1996.14.02
- Name Access
- Kaplan, Etta & Nathan
- Places
- Munich , Germany, Europe
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
Images
Postcard
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn45465
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- Postcard : paper : printed, handwritten : ink : black, white, blue ; Ht: 5,75 in. x W: 4 in.
- Date
- 1946
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- Postcard : paper : printed, handwritten : ink : black, white, blue ; Ht: 5,75 in. x W: 4 in.
- Other Title Information
- Documentary Artifact
- Date
- 1946
- Creator
- 0
- Physical Condition
- Good
- Language
- English
- French
- Hebrew
- Polish
- German
- Russian
- Notes
- b&w, white border. Postcard commemorating the first anniversary of the liberation of Mauthausen concentration camp by the Americans. The front shows a black and white drawing of an American flag being raised by soldiers. A man in a prisoner's uniform waves while he walks by a fat Nazi soldier tangled in a barbed wire fence. A large American flag dominates the scene. The reverse has a caption in six languages, and bears a stylized postage stamp featuring the camp gates. The sender's message is written in blue ink. Narrative: Donor, Mr. Wehrman, was liberated from Mauthausen concentration camp (Austria) on May 5, 1945.
- Accession No.
- 2000.05.03
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
Images
Theresienstadt
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn45472
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- Painting : paper : painting : oil : brown, red, blue, green ; Ht: 26,4 cm x W: 38 cm
- Date
- November 11, 1943
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- Painting : paper : painting : oil : brown, red, blue, green ; Ht: 26,4 cm x W: 38 cm
- Other Title Information
- Original Art, Painting
- Date
- November 11, 1943
- Physical Condition
- Good
- Notes
- A group of people huddled together in the foreground, with a crowd of indistinct figures in the background. The front figures wear Stars of David and are in various poses of sadness or agony.
- Accession No.
- 1997.13.03
- Name Access
- Flanders (Rome), Tibey
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
Images
Entrance to the Ghetto
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn45482
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- Print : paper : woodcut : ink : black, white ; Ht: 13 in. x W: 9 1/4 in.
- Date
- [ca. 1954-1956]
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- Print : paper : woodcut : ink : black, white ; Ht: 13 in. x W: 9 1/4 in.
- Other Title Information
- Original Art, Work on Paper
- Date
- [ca. 1954-1956]
- Creator
- -
- Physical Condition
- Excellent
- Notes
- Print depicts an outdoor scene at the entrance of the Warsaw ghetto. In the foreground is an open gate with barbed wire on either side. A Jewish man wearing a Star of David is showing a German soldier a paper. A line of people stretches out behind him. In the background one can see the buildings of the ghetto. Narrative: All 16 of the prints in this series deal with life in the Warsaw ghetto during World War II. This print refers to work permits issued to Jews working outside of the ghetto and to the checkpoints.
- Accession No.
- 2000.69.02
- Name Access
- Hornstein, Michael
- Places
- Warsaw, Poland, Europe
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
Images
Crowd looking at broken shop windows after the November pogrom
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn45487
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- Photograph : paper : photography : black, white ; Ht: 10 in. x W: 8 in.
- Date
- November 11, 1938
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- Photograph : paper : photography : black, white ; Ht: 10 in. x W: 8 in.
- Other Title Information
- Documentary Artifact
- Date
- November 11, 1938
- Physical Condition
- Excellent
- Notes
- b&w, white border. Outdoor street scene of a Jewish shop with broken windows on the day after the November pogrom (Kristallnacht). A crowd is standing in front of the broken shopwindows, with people looking in and some passing by. On top of the shop is a broken shop sign reading “D. Lichtenstein“.
- Accession No.
- 2003.02.91
- Name Access
- MHMC
- Places
- Magdeburg, Germany, Europe
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
Images
Crowd looking at broken shop windows after the November pogrom
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn45488
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- Photograph : paper : photography : black, white ; Ht: 10 in. x W: 8 in.
- Date
- November 11, 1938
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- Photograph : paper : photography : black, white ; Ht: 10 in. x W: 8 in.
- Other Title Information
- Documentary Artifact
- Date
- November 11, 1938
- Physical Condition
- Excellent
- Language
- German
- Notes
- b&w, white border. Outdoor street scene showing a Jewish shop with broken windows on the day after the November pogrom (Kristallnacht). A crowd is standing in front of the broken shop windows with people looking in, some people are passing by. Above the shop window are two shop signs reading “Strumpfe Handschuhe Wäsche“ (wash gloves, stockings) and “Wer sieht, kauft“ (who sees, buys). The sign on the shop next door reads “Möbel Winkler / Verkauf Spiegelbrücke 5” (Winkler furniture, address).
- Accession No.
- 2003.02.92
- Name Access
- MHMC
- Places
- Magdeburg, Germany, Europe
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
Images
Crowd looking at broken shop windows after the November pogrom
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn45489
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- Photograph : paper : photography : black, white ; Ht: 10 in. x W: 8 in.
- Date
- November 11, 1938
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- Photograph : paper : photography : black, white ; Ht: 10 in. x W: 8 in.
- Other Title Information
- Documentary Artifact
- Date
- November 11, 1938
- Physical Condition
- Excellent
- Language
- German
- Notes
- b&w, white border. Outdoor street scene showing a Jewish shop with broken windows on the day after the November pogrom (Kristallnacht). A crowd is standing in front of the broken shop windows with people looking in, some people are passing by. On top of the windows is a shop sign reading “ Papierhandlung L. Sperling“ (L. Sperling paper treatment). The cafe across the street is flying a Nazi flag.
- Accession No.
- 2003.02.93
- Name Access
- MHMC
- Places
- Magdeburg, Germany , Europe
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
Images
View of Dachau concentration camp
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn45490
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- Photograph : paper : photography : black, white ; Ht: 6,5 cm x W: 9,5 cm
- Date
- 1945
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- Photograph : paper : photography : black, white ; Ht: 6,5 cm x W: 9,5 cm
- Other Title Information
- Documentary Artifact
- Date
- 1945
- Physical Condition
- Good
- Notes
- b&w. Outdoors. Bird’s eye view. Barracks, fence, towers and wall of Dachau concentration camp. Several prisoners are standing or walking through the complex. Pits of bodies are visible on the left.
- Accession No.
- 2003.02.1211
- Name Access
- MHMC
- Places
- Dachau, Germany, Europe
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
Images
Bergen-Belsen former prisoners eating inside a building
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn45493
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- Photograph : paper : photography : black, white ; Ht: 8 in. x W: 10 1/4 in.
- Date
- 1945-1946
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- Photograph : paper : photography : black, white ; Ht: 8 in. x W: 10 1/4 in.
- Other Title Information
- Documentary Artifact
- Date
- 1945-1946
- Physical Condition
- Good
- Language
- French
- Notes
- b&w, white border. Indoors. Emaciated men wearing white shirts, their lower halves wrapped in blankets. They are sitting up on stretchers and eating or talking. The stretchers are lined up perpendicular to the wall and the windows are all open. Opposite the prisoners sit two soldiers, talking to them; the soldiers' faces are not visible.
- Accession No.
- 2005.37.02
- Name Access
- Benoit, Lucien
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
Images
Jewish man arrested by two Germans inside the ghetto
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn45496
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- Photograph : paper : photography : black, white ; Ht: 5 in. x W: 7 in.
- Date
- 1943
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- Photograph : paper : photography : black, white ; Ht: 5 in. x W: 7 in.
- Other Title Information
- Documentary Artifact
- Date
- 1943
- Physical Condition
- Good
- Notes
- b&w, white border. Outdoors. Two German Schutzstaffel (SS) soldiers are removing a Jewish man's outer jacket; their gazes are down. The Jewish man wears glasses, a flat cap, a scarf, and a dark coloured jacket with a Star of David badge on the right side. They stand in front of a brick wall with a window. The SS on the right side wears the insignia of a chief squad leader or Hauptscharführer.
- Accession No.
- 2000.80.11
- Name Access
- Jewish Public Library
- Places
- Warsaw, Poland, Europe
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
Images
Postcard
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn45497
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- Postcard : Cardstock : Printed : Ink : Black, grey, white ; Ht: 10 cm x W: 14 cm
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- Postcard : Cardstock : Printed : Ink : Black, grey, white ; Ht: 10 cm x W: 14 cm
- Other Title Information
- Documentary Artifact
- Physical Condition
- Good
- Language
- English
- Polish
- Notes
- Postcard format card with printed image, space for stamp and address on back commemorative postcard with four panels. No message or adressee. Postcard contains photos of Polish clergyman Father Maksymilian Kolbe, his death certificate, filled out and stamped with the Reichsadler; an oil portait of Father Kolbe in a prisoner's uniform, wearing wooden shoes and cap in hand; and a close-up of his identification triangle and number.
- Accession No.
- 2001.55.69
- Name Access
- Jewish Public Library
- Places
- Poland, Europe
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
Images
“Jude” painted on storefront window
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn45503
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- Photograph : paper : photography : black, white ; Ht: 6,9 cm x W: 11,8 cm
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- Photograph : paper : photography : black, white ; Ht: 6,9 cm x W: 11,8 cm
- Other Title Information
- Documentary Artifact
- Physical Condition
- Good
- Language
- German
- Notes
- b&w, white border. Outdoors. Windows of a hat store with the word “Jude” painted in white three times. "Hut-Pressere?" is painted in white above the right shop window; above the door, the name "Charles Zygmuntowicz" is painted in small white letters. A man in a white suit is reflected in the shop window.
- Accession No.
- 1991.06.01
- Name Access
- Frankel, S.
- Places
- Germany, Europe
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
Images
Charles Kadysiewitz and three other prisoners of war at Stalag XIII-C
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn45505
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- Photograph : paper : photography : black, white ; Ht: 8,8 cm x W: 6,3 cm
- Date
- March 2, 1943
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- Photograph : paper : photography : black, white ; Ht: 8,8 cm x W: 6,3 cm
- Other Title Information
- Documentary Artifact
- Date
- March 2, 1943
- Physical Condition
- Good
- Language
- French
- Notes
- b&w, white border with deckled edges. Outdoors. Charles Kadysiewitz (on the right) and three other prisoners of war posing in front of a wall. Charles has his hand on the next man's shoulder. All four of them wear the same uniform. The man on the left wears glasses, a beret, and low boots; the man next to him wears a side cap, braided belt, high boots and one glove; the next man wears a French kepi, leather belt and high boots; and Charles wears a side cap, leather belt and low boots. Narrative: Charles Kadysiewitz was part of the Foreign Legion; he was captured during World War II and interned in Stalag III-C prisoner of war camp in Germany. He survived the war.
- Accession No.
- 2004.02.64
- Name Access
- Myers, Muguette
- Places
- Hammelburg, Germany, Europe
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
Images
German officer in front of burning buildings
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn45506
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- Photograph : paper : photography : black, white ; Ht: 7 cm x W: 10,2 cm
- Date
- 1933-1945
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- Photograph : paper : photography : black, white ; Ht: 7 cm x W: 10,2 cm
- Other Title Information
- Documentary Artifact
- Date
- 1933-1945
- Physical Condition
- Good
- Notes
- b&w, white border. Outdoors. Nazi officer stands next to a shedhouse while smoke and flames emanate from buildings in the background. He is wearing a Schirmmütze (peaked cap) and a greatcoat that extends to his knees and is tightly belted at the waist. He is holding a shovel and a dark sack. Small trees and a water pump can be seen in the background.
- Accession No.
- 2001.01.22
- Name Access
- Schnurbach, Shirley
- Places
- Poland?, Europe
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
Images
Deportation of Jews
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn45507
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- Photograph : paper : photography : black, white ; Ht: 7 cm x W: 10 cm
- Date
- 1939-1945
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- Photograph : paper : photography : black, white ; Ht: 7 cm x W: 10 cm
- Other Title Information
- Documentary Artifact
- Date
- 1939-1945
- Physical Condition
- Good
- Notes
- b&w, white border. Outdoors. Two people ready to be deported. The man facing the camera is wearing a dark coat and flat cap; he has a white fabric bag slung across his chest and a large mug tied to his jacket. The other person is a young woman with her back turned; she is wearing a pale jacket with a Star of David that reads "Jude" between her shoulderblades and a wool cap. There are belongings scattered in the background in front of houses.
- Accession No.
- 2001.01.23
- Name Access
- Schnurbach, Shirley
- Places
- Poland, Europe
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
Images
Child Carrying a Burlap Sack
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn45509
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- Photograph : paper : photography : black, white ; Ht: 10,1 cm x W: 7,1 cm
- Date
- 1939-1943
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- Photograph : paper : photography : black, white ; Ht: 10,1 cm x W: 7,1 cm
- Other Title Information
- Documentary Artifact
- Date
- 1939-1943
- Physical Condition
- Good
- Notes
- b&w with white border. Outdoors, portrait of a child carrying a burlap sack. The child’s eyes are hidden under his wooly hat so that only the face below the child’s eyes is visible. The child is dressed in clothes several sizes too big and has a dirty face and hands. He wears a leather glove on his left hand.
- Accession No.
- 1990.18.40
- Name Access
- Sporn, Salek
- Places
- Poland?, Europe
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
Images
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