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- MONTREAL HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL CENTRE (MHMC-01)
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- ? : Paper : Printed : Ink : Beige, Black ; Ht: 29,5 cm x W: 21 cm
- Archival / Genealogical
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1 image
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- MONTREAL HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL CENTRE (MHMC-01)
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- ? : Paper : Printed : Ink : Beige, Black ; Ht: 29,5 cm x W: 21 cm
- Other Title Information
- Documentary Artifact
- Date
- May 13, 1947
- Physical Condition
- Good
- Language
- Yiddish
- Notes
- 1 page, single-sided. Folded once horizontally and once vertically. Triangular stamp with "Amchu" insignia of harp in centre, Yiddish text. Document relates to "Amchu" Artist's Group in Feldafing. Contains list of members. Mayer Abramowicz is first on the list. Narrative: Bella (Beila, Bela) Herling and Mayer (Majer, Meyer, Meir) Abramovitch (Abramovitz, Abramowicz, Abramowitz) were the parents of the donor, Toby Herscovitch. Bella was born in Suchedniów, Poland on September 25, 1925, the youngest of a family of ten children. Her parents and five siblings were murdered in the Holocaust. Bella and three of her sisters survived the war working as slave labourers in an ammunitions factory in Skarzysko-Kamienna. They were liberated by Russian troops on January 16, 1945, and made their way to the Feldafing Displaced Persons Camp, where they reunited with a brother who had survived Auschwitz. Bella volunteered for nursing training by a Jewish refugee agency, and worked as a nurse in the camp from 1946 to 1948. In 1948, she joined her sister Paula in Toronto, where she worked as a nurse's aide and married Mayer, a fellow survivor who she had known from Feldafing. Born November 10, 1914 in Vilna (Vilnius), he was the sole survivor of a family of six children. He lived in the Vilna ghetto and worked in a factory making window panes for German barracks; he was later sent to a labour camp in Tallin, Estonia, and then to Stutthof concentration camp. In the final days of the war, he escaped from a subsequent transfer to Dachau concentration camp and was liberated. He spent three months sick in a hospital and ended up in Feldafing, where he was active in the "Amchu" or "AMCHO" theater group, part of the Jewish Labour Committee. He lived for a year in France, and immigrated to Canada in May, 1949. Bella and Mayer moved to Montreal in 1950 and opened a fabric store. Mayer passed away in 2001, and Bella in 2014.
- Accession No.
- 2014.10.14
- Name Access
- Herscovitch, Toby
- Places
- Feldafing, Germany, Europe
- Archival / Genealogical
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- Repository
- Montreal Holocaust Memorial Centre
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- MONTREAL HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL CENTRE (MHMC-01)
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- ? : Paper : Drawn, Typed, Stamped : Ink : Yellow, Black, Red ; Ht: 27,5 cm x W: 21,5 cm
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- MONTREAL HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL CENTRE (MHMC-01)
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- ? : Paper : Drawn, Typed, Stamped : Ink : Yellow, Black, Red ; Ht: 27,5 cm x W: 21,5 cm
- Other Title Information
- Documentary Artifact
- Physical Condition
- Good
- Language
- Yiddish
- Notes
- 1 page, single-sided. Folded once vertically and 3 times horizontally. Large printed line drawing of a closed book, with a red stamp at top right corner of an opened book with Yiddish text superimposed over it. Text in Yiddish within the image of the book. Narrative: Bella (Beila, Bela) Herling and Mayer (Majer, Meyer, Meir) Abramovitch (Abramovitz, Abramowicz, Abramowitz) were the parents of the donor, Toby Herscovitch. Bella was born in Suchedniów, Poland on September 25, 1925, the youngest of a family of ten children. Her parents and five siblings were murdered in the Holocaust. Bella and three of her sisters survived the war working as slave labourers in an ammunitions factory in Skarzysko-Kamienna. They were liberated by Russian troops on January 16, 1945, and made their way to the Feldafing Displaced Persons Camp, where they reunited with a brother who had survived Auschwitz. Bella volunteered for nursing training by a Jewish refugee agency, and worked as a nurse in the camp from 1946 to 1948. In 1948, she joined her sister Paula in Toronto, where she worked as a nurse's aide and married Mayer, a fellow survivor who she had known from Feldafing. Born November 10, 1914 in Vilna (Vilnius), he was the sole survivor of a family of six children. He lived in the Vilna ghetto and worked in a factory making window panes for German barracks; he was later sent to a labour camp in Tallin, Estonia, and then to Stutthof concentration camp. In the final days of the war, he escaped from a subsequent transfer to Dachau concentration camp and was liberated. He spent three months sick in a hospital and ended up in Feldafing, where he was active in the "Amchu" or "AMCHO" theater group, part of the Jewish Labour Committee. He lived for a year in France, and immigrated to Canada in May, 1949. Bella and Mayer moved to Montreal in 1950 and opened a fabric store. Mayer passed away in 2001, and Bella in 2014.
- Accession No.
- 2014.10.26
- Name Access
- Herscovitch, Toby
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Montreal Holocaust Memorial Centre
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The 20th Anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising 1943-1963 (Translation)
https://www.cjhn.ca/en/permalink/cjhn47793
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- MONTREAL HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL CENTRE (MHMC-01)
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- textual record
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- Booklet : printed, bound, graphic arts : beige, blue, black ; Ht: 21 cm x W: 14 cm
- Archival / Genealogical
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2 images
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- MONTREAL HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL CENTRE (MHMC-01)
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- Booklet : printed, bound, graphic arts : beige, blue, black ; Ht: 21 cm x W: 14 cm
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- Date
- 1943-1963
- Creator
- -
- Physical Condition
- Good
- Language
- Yiddish
- English
- Notes
- 32 pages; softcover with paper stapled binding; manila covers with blue lettering, an illustration of a man and woman ghetto fighters on front. Interior pages are beige with black printed text.
- Accession No.
- 2011X.329.01
- Name Access
- Tauben, Irwin
- Archival / Genealogical
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- Repository
- Montreal Holocaust Memorial Centre
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25th Anniversary Book of the Upsilon Chapter of Zeta Beta Tau
https://www.cjhn.ca/en/permalink/cjhn44478
- Collection
- CONGREGATION SHAAR HASHOMAYIM MUSEUM AND ARCHIVES
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- Item
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- Book ; Ht:25.5 cm x W:17.4 cm : English
- Fonds No.
- SH-01; 969
- Archival / Genealogical
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- Book ; Ht:25.5 cm x W:17.4 cm : English
- Date
- 1938
- Publication
- Zeta Beta Tau : Printed by Edward J. Sommer
- Fonds No.
- SH-01
- Item No.
- 969
- Physical Condition
- Excellent
- Notes
- Chronicle of the Jewish fraternity; compiled by Adolphe Gardner, K.C.; 36 pages
- Places
- Montreal, Quebec, Canada
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Congregation Shaar Hashomayim Museum and Archives
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The 50th Anniversary of Lodz Ghetto Liquidation 1944-1994
https://www.cjhn.ca/en/permalink/cjhn47796
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- MONTREAL HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL CENTRE (MHMC-01)
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- Item
- Material Format
- textual record
- Physical Description
- Booklet : printed, bound, photography, graphic arts : black, white, red, yellow ; Ht: 20 cm x W: 12 cm
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
2 images
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- MONTREAL HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL CENTRE (MHMC-01)
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- textual record
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- 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 Memorial Centre
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111 Dessins de Boris Taslitzky faits à Buchenwald 1944-1945
https://www.cjhn.ca/en/permalink/cjhn47573
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- MONTREAL HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL CENTRE (MHMC-01)
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- Book : printed, graphic arts : beige, black, blue ; Ht: 25,1 cm x W: 21,7 cm
- Archival / Genealogical
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1 image
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- MONTREAL HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL CENTRE (MHMC-01)
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- Book : printed, graphic arts : beige, black, blue ; Ht: 25,1 cm x W: 21,7 cm
- Other Title Information
- Documentary Artifact
- Date
- 1944-1945
- Creator
- 0
- Physical Condition
- Good
- Language
- English
- French
- Notes
- 500+ pages (exact page number is unknown). Cardboard cover, not bound. Cover is beige with black and blue text; a b&w drawing of a person lying down, with their hands covering their face. Interior pages are beige, the first 12 consist only of text. The remaining pages have b&w drawings of different camp scenes, with captions under each. The last 5 drawings are in colour. The book ends with a table of contents of all the included drawings.
- Accession No.
- 2011X.110.01
- Name Access
- Dionne, Danielle
- Places
- Paris, France, Europe
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Montreal Holocaust Memorial Centre
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150th Anniversary booklet on history of the Spanish & Portuguese Synagogue
https://www.cjhn.ca/en/permalink/cjhn46544
- Collection
- The Spanish and Portuguese Synagogue
- Description Level
- File
- Material Format
- textual record
- Fonds No.
- SP-01; F; SP-01-F-25-7
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
2 images
- Collection
- The Spanish and Portuguese Synagogue
- Description Level
- File
- Material Format
- textual record
- Date
- 1918
- Fonds No.
- SP-01
- Series No.
- F
- File No.
- SP-01-F-25-7
- Notes
- Soft-cover booklet. Author possibly Clarence de Sola. Inside front page signed Annette Pinto Ruth Wolff. Additional copies in Series I, Box 37, file 1 (the former Books 2 box )
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
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- The Spanish and Portuguese Synagogue
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150th Anniversary of the Declaration granting equal rights and privileges to persons of the Jewish religion in Lower Canada, invitation to Mr. B.J. Finestone.
https://www.cjhn.ca/en/permalink/cjhn44155
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- CONGREGATION SHAAR HASHOMAYIM MUSEUM AND ARCHIVES
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- Document ; Ht:15 cm x W:18.5 cm : French
- Fonds No.
- SH-01; 288
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- Document ; Ht:15 cm x W:18.5 cm : French
- Other Title Information
- Invitation
- Date
- June 1, 1982
- Fonds No.
- SH-01
- Item No.
- 288
- Physical Condition
- Very good
- Notes
- The Prime Minister of Quebec, Mr. René Lévesque, requests the pleasure of the company of Mr. B.J. Finestone at breakfast at the Restaurant Le Parlementaire de l'Hotel du Parlement, Quebec City. On the occasion of the 150th Anniversary of the Declaration granting equal rights and privileges to persons of the Jewish religion in Lower Canada.
- Places
- Quebec City, Canada
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Congregation Shaar Hashomayim Museum and Archives
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1985 copy of 1922 marriage certificate for Jack Victor and Sadie Hershorn
https://www.cjhn.ca/en/permalink/cjhn44119
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- CONGREGATION SHAAR HASHOMAYIM MUSEUM AND ARCHIVES
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- Item
- Material Format
- textual record
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- Document ; Ht:11" x W:8 1/2" : English
- Fonds No.
- SH-01; 179
- Archival / Genealogical
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1 image
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- Document ; Ht:11" x W:8 1/2" : English
- Date
- March 29, 1922
- Fonds No.
- SH-01
- Item No.
- 179
- Notes
- Marriage certificate for Jack Victor and Sadie Hershorn at the Congregation Shaar Hashomayim. Signed by Rabbi Wifred Shuchat. Officiating Minister: H. Abramowitz. Witnesses: M. Marcovitz, L. Hershorn, Sam Hershorn.
- Places
- Westmount, Quebec, Canada
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Congregation Shaar Hashomayim Museum and Archives
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AARON, Elmer Oscar
https://www.cjhn.ca/en/permalink/genealogy1
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- Canadian Jewish Congress organizational records
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- textual record
- graphic material
- Archival / Genealogical
- Genealogy Records
1 image
- Material Format
- textual record
- graphic material
- Date of Death
- May 07, 1944
- Place of Burial
- Loiret, France
- Cemetery
- Orleans Main Cemetery
- Age at Time of Death
- 23
- Enlistment No.
- J- 25067
- Rank
- Flying Officer
- Unit
- Royal Canadian Air Force
- Notes
- Flying Officer Elmer Aaron was from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He enlisted in the RCAF in Montreal in March 1942 and received his commission as a flying officer in October 1943 (in England). Flying Officer Aaron had completed 14 missions and had been forced to bail out of his ships twice before his last flight. He was participating in a raid on Tours in France and was about fifteen miles from his objective when his squadron was caught in a concentration of anti-aircraft fire. Four planes were seen to burst into flames, and it was later announced that nine craft of this squadron had failed to return. (Canadian Jews in World War II)
- Subjects
- World War II
- Record Source
- Canadian Jewish Military Casualties
- Fonds No.
- CJC0001
- Archival / Genealogical
- Genealogy Records
- Repository
- Canadian Jewish Archives
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