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ABSIL, Walter
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/genealogy6585
- Collection
- JEWISH IMMIGRANT AID SERVICES (JIAS)
- Material Type
- textual record
- Archival / Genealogical
- Genealogy Records
- Collection
- JEWISH IMMIGRANT AID SERVICES (JIAS)
- Material Type
- textual record
- Spouse
- Erika
- Children
- Ingrid, Michael
- Date File Opened
- 09/25/1951
- Arrival Date
- 09/25/1951
- Place of Birth
- Austria
- Record Source
- JIAS Montreal Client Cards
- Fonds No.
- I0037
- Series No.
- R
- File No.
- 01-959
- Restrictions
- Due to privacy laws, access to further information about this record is restricted. You may contact the Canadian Jewish Archives to learn more.
- Archival / Genealogical
- Genealogy Records
- Repository
- Canadian Jewish Archives
Card
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn75134
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- textual record
- Physical Description
- Card : Cardstock : Printed, Typed, Handwritten : Ink : Beige, Red, Green, Black, Blue ; Ht: 12 7 in. x W: 8 1/2 in.
- Date
- November 25, 1950
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- textual record
- Physical Description
- Card : Cardstock : Printed, Typed, Handwritten : Ink : Beige, Red, Green, Black, Blue ; Ht: 12 7 in. x W: 8 1/2 in.
- Other Title Information
- Documentary Artifact
- Date
- November 25, 1950
- Physical Condition
- Good
- Language
- French
- Dutch
- Notes
- 1 page, double-sided. 3 graphic panels on each side, intended to be folded and carried as a booklet. Square b&w photograph of cardholder stapled to document in bottom left corner, with 6 fiscal stamps valuing 380 francs affixed around the bottom and right side On back, a thick red stripe runs horizontally through the central 3.5cm of the page. Belgian identification document for foreigners, issued to Walther Siegfried Absil. It states that Mr. Absil is born in Vienna, is of Austrian nationality, is married to Erika Rübler, and is a sheet metal worker. Narrative: Walter Absil was born in Vienna, Austria on November 26, 1924. He fled to Belgium with his family in 1938 and survived the war in hiding.
- Accession No.
- 1990.96.03
- Name Access
- Absil, Walter
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
Images
Postcard
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn75163
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- textual record
- Physical Description
- Postcard : Paper : Printed, Handwritten : Ink : Beige, Black ; Ht: 4 1/8 in. x W: 5 3/4 in.
- Date
- January 3, 1949
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- textual record
- Physical Description
- Postcard : Paper : Printed, Handwritten : Ink : Beige, Black ; Ht: 4 1/8 in. x W: 5 3/4 in.
- Other Title Information
- Documentary Artifact
- Date
- January 3, 1949
- Physical Condition
- Good
- Language
- French
- Dutch
- Notes
- 1 page, double-sided. Invitation to a convocation ceremony, addressed to Heinz Rübler, held by the Resistance Office of the Ministry of National Defense. The ceremony was scheduled for Januray 19, 1949 in Brussels. Narrative: Heinz Rübler was the brother-in-law of the donor, Walter Absil.
- Accession No.
- 2000.02.07
- Name Access
- Absil, Walter
- Places
- Brussels, Belgium, Europe
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
Images
Postcard
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn75165
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- textual record
- Physical Description
- Postcard : Paper : Typed, Handwritten : Ink : Beige, Black, White, Green, Purple ; Ht: 4 1/8 in. x W: 5 3/4 in.
- Date
- January 29, 1949
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- textual record
- Physical Description
- Postcard : Paper : Typed, Handwritten : Ink : Beige, Black, White, Green, Purple ; Ht: 4 1/8 in. x W: 5 3/4 in.
- Other Title Information
- Documentary Artifact
- Date
- January 29, 1949
- Physical Condition
- Good
- Language
- French
- Dutch
- Notes
- 1 page, single-sided. Invitation to a convocation ceremony, addressed to Heinz Rübler, held by the Resistance Office of the Ministry of National Defense. The ceremony was scheduled for February 24, 1949. Narrative: Heinz Rübler was the brother-in-law of the donor, Walter Absil.
- Accession No.
- 2012X.11.06
- Name Access
- Absil, Walter
- Places
- Brussels, Belgium, Europe
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
Images
Card
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn75164
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- textual record
- Physical Description
- Card : Paper : Printed, Handwritten : Ink; : Beige, Black, Green, Red, Blue ; Ht: 3 1/2 in. x W: 5 5/8 in.
- Date
- February 03, 1947
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- textual record
- Physical Description
- Card : Paper : Printed, Handwritten : Ink; : Beige, Black, Green, Red, Blue ; Ht: 3 1/2 in. x W: 5 5/8 in.
- Other Title Information
- Documentary Artifact
- Date
- February 03, 1947
- Physical Condition
- Good
- Language
- French
- Notes
- 1 page, double-sided. Membership card for Heinz Rübler from the Fédération Belge de la Résistance, section West Brussels. Membership is numbered 13669 and is valid for the year 1947. Narrative: Heinz Rübler was the brother-in-law of the donor, Walter Absil.
- Accession No.
- 2012X.11.05
- Name Access
- Absil, Walter
- Places
- Brussels, Belgium, Europe
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
Images
Card
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn75149
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- textual record
- Physical Description
- Card : Cardboard : Printed, Handwritten : Ink : Green, Red, Black ; Ht: 3,25 in. x W: 5,5 in.
- Date
- 1946
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- textual record
- Physical Description
- Card : Cardboard : Printed, Handwritten : Ink : Green, Red, Black ; Ht: 3,25 in. x W: 5,5 in.
- Other Title Information
- Documentary Artifact
- Date
- 1946
- Physical Condition
- Good
- Language
- French
- Dutch
- German
- Notes
- 1 page, double sided. Horizontal paper. Membership card for the Belgian Resistance Federation (trad.) issued to Heinz Rübler for the year of 1946. Card is numbered 6436 and membership is for the Molenbeek section of the organization. Flemish version on back is blank. Red Belgian postal stamp affixed to top right corner of card under circular stamp. In background of card, in blue ink, there is a drawing of a man brandishing a sword, standing on a broken swastika on a platform shaped like a map of Belgium.
- Accession No.
- 2000.02.06
- Name Access
- Absil, Walter
- Places
- Brussels, Belgium, Europe
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
Images
Certificate
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn75123
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- textual record
- Physical Description
- Certificate : Paper : Printed, Typed, Handwritten : Ink : B&W ; Ht: 29,7 cm x W: 21 cm
- Date
- [Later than 1945]
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- textual record
- Physical Description
- Certificate : Paper : Printed, Typed, Handwritten : Ink : B&W ; Ht: 29,7 cm x W: 21 cm
- Other Title Information
- Documentary Artifact
- Date
- [Later than 1945]
- Physical Condition
- Excellent
- Language
- French
- Notes
- 1 page, single-sided. Folded 3 times horizontally. Official document from the Belgian Minister of Public Health and Environment, War Victims Administration, attesting that Otto Bondy was interned in Malines (Mechelen) transit camp in Belgium on September 18, 1943 and was deported from Malines on September 20, 1943 as prisoner number 3 on transport 22A. The document states that Otto Bondy did not return. Document refers to file number 00096, code ABSWA1, and 125/CB/PF is typed under the letterhead. Narrative: Otto Bondy was the father of the donor, Walter Absil. He was born in Vienna, Austria on January 27, 1897, and fled to Belgium with his family in 1938, one day after the annexion of Austria by the German Reich. He was deported from the Malines (Melechen) transit camp in Belgium to Auschwitz, Poland in September 1943, where he was murdered.
- Accession No.
- 2011X.64.01
- Name Access
- Absil, Walter
- Places
- Brussels, Belgium, Europe
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
Images
Card
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn75148
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- textual record
- Physical Description
- Card : Cardstock : Printed, Typed : Ink : Blue, Red, Black, White ; Ht: 5,25 in. x W: 3,25 in.
- Date
- January 8, 1945-December 31, 1945
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- textual record
- Physical Description
- Card : Cardstock : Printed, Typed : Ink : Blue, Red, Black, White ; Ht: 5,25 in. x W: 3,25 in.
- Other Title Information
- Documentary Artifact
- Date
- January 8, 1945-December 31, 1945
- Physical Condition
- Good
- Language
- Dutch
- French
- German
- Notes
- 1 page, double-sided. 3 graphic panels on each side, intended to be folded and carried as a booklet. Folded vertically 2 times. Dark blue cardstock with black borders around each panel except central back panel. Back right panel (booklet cover) has 2 red stripes diagonally in top left corner and in center has organization's insignia: the letters FF in a circle with 2 small vertical lines on top of the circle. Small square b&w photo of cardholder stapled to center of front page with portion of circular stamp over bottom right corner of photo. Document is a membership card for the Austrian National Front, an antifascist resistance organization founded during the Third Reich by German and Austrian Communist refugees in Belgium and France. Document issued to Heinz Rübler. Issued January 8, 1945 in Brussels, Belgium; renewed 4 times as per form on back left panel, until December 31, 1945. Narrative: Heinz Rübler was the brother-in-law of the donor, Walter Absil.
- Accession No.
- 2000.02.04
- Name Access
- Absil, Walter
- Places
- Brussels, Belgium, Europe
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
Images
Card
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn75162
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- textual record
- Physical Description
- Card : Paper : Handwritten, Typed : Ink : Beige, Black ; Ht: 3 in. x W: 4 3/4 in.
- Date
- 1945
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- textual record
- Physical Description
- Card : Paper : Handwritten, Typed : Ink : Beige, Black ; Ht: 3 in. x W: 4 3/4 in.
- Other Title Information
- Documentary Artifact
- Date
- 1945
- Physical Condition
- Good
- Language
- French
- Notes
- 1 page, single-sided. Resistance card for Heinz Rübler issued by the Fédération Belge de la Résistance for 1945. This membership, numbered 1371, is for the local division of Molenbeek. In the upper left-hand section of the card, there is a drawing of a man brandishing a sword, standing on a broken swastika on a platform shaped like a map of Belgium. Narrative: Heinz Rübler was the brother-in-law of the donor, Walter Absil.
- Accession No.
- 1999.09.03
- Name Access
- Absil, Walter
- Places
- Brussels, Belgium, Europe
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
Images
Card
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn75150
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- textual record
- Physical Description
- Card : Paper : Printed, Typed : Ink : Beige, Black, Red ; Ht: 3,75 in. x W: 2,75 in.
- Date
- May 15, 1944-November 18, 1944
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- textual record
- Physical Description
- Card : Paper : Printed, Typed : Ink : Beige, Black, Red ; Ht: 3,75 in. x W: 2,75 in.
- Other Title Information
- Documentary Artifact
- Date
- May 15, 1944-November 18, 1944
- Physical Condition
- Good
- Language
- French
- Dutch
- Notes
- 1 page, double-sided. 3 graphic panels on each side, intended to be folded and carried as a booklet. Folded vertically 2 times. Square b&w photo of cardholder stapled to center, partially covered by circular stamp. Stamp has skull and crossbones insignia in center. Center back panel (front cover of booklet) is bordered by a red vertical rectangle within a black rectangle. At center of panel in black ink is a skull and crossbones insignia. Document is a membership card, numbered 00508, for Belgian resistance group Les Affranchis. Cardholder is Léopold Heinz Rübler, member 01699, who served as soldier in the 4th company of the Brussels division from May 15, 1944 until November 18, 1944. Narrative: The armband belonged to Heinz Rübler, donor’s brother-in-law. By 1942, Heinz Rübler was in the underground and remained involved until liberation. He used this armband after liberation. It is not the official one of the Belgian army. It comes from Heinz Rübler’s estate and was donated after his death. Before the war, Heinz lived in Brussels, Belgium. He died in the U.S.A. in 1999. Heinz Rübler was the brother-in-law of the donor, Walter Absil.
- Accession No.
- 2000.02.02
- Name Access
- Absil, Walter
- Places
- Brussels, Belgium, Europe
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
Images
Letter
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn75167
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- textual record
- Physical Description
- Letter : Paper : Typed, Handwritten : Ink; Graphite Pencil : Beige, Black, Purple, Blue ; Ht: 5 3/8 in. x W: 8 3/8 in.
- Date
- November 14, 1944
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- textual record
- Physical Description
- Letter : Paper : Typed, Handwritten : Ink; Graphite Pencil : Beige, Black, Purple, Blue ; Ht: 5 3/8 in. x W: 8 3/8 in.
- Other Title Information
- Documentary Artifact
- Date
- November 14, 1944
- Physical Condition
- Good
- Language
- French
- Notes
- 1 page, double-sided. Certificate certifying that Heinz Rübler was a member of the group “Les Affranchis” M.N.B. before September 3, 1944 and that he is on unlimited leave to finish his studies. The typed name J. Dons, appearing before the signature, has been crossed out in ink and the name C. Tromme ? has been handwritten above it. Circular stamp has a skull and crossbones insignia in centre. On back, a name, address and some numbers have been handwritten in pencil. Narrative: Heinz Rübler was the brother-in-law of the donor, Walter Absil.
- Accession No.
- 2000.02.09
- Name Access
- Absil, Walter
- Places
- Brussels, Belgium, Europe
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
Images
Envelope
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn50161
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- textual record
- Physical Description
- Envelope : Paper : Beige, pink, blue ; Ht: 3,75 in. x W: 5,75 in.
- Date
- September 22, 1943
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- textual record
- Physical Description
- Envelope : Paper : Beige, pink, blue ; Ht: 3,75 in. x W: 5,75 in.
- Other Title Information
- Documentary Artifact
- Date
- September 22, 1943
- Physical Condition
- Good
- Language
- French
- Notes
- The envelope is cream coloured with a pink and cream check design inside. Circular stamp in upper right corner, on top of a square postage stamp with a man facing right on it. Postmark “Hassel 22.9.43”. Narrative: Envelope sent by Otto and Margaraethe Bondy (nee Fischer) as they were being deported from Brussels. The envelope was addressed to their neighbours in Brussels and later given to their son. There is a postage stamp and the postmark “Hassel 22 9 43”. The Bondy were deported on transport XXIIA on September 20, 1943 which arrived in Auschwitz on 1943-09-22. They were both killed on Auscwhitz. Their children survived in hiding.
- Accession No.
- 1990.96.141
- Name Access
- Absil, Walter
- Places
- Brussels, Belgium, Europe
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
Images
Postcard
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn50179
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- textual record
- Physical Description
- Postcard : Paper : Ink : Black, White, Red, Blue, Biege, Purple ; Ht: 3,5 in. x W: 5,5 in.
- Date
- September 20, 1943
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- textual record
- Physical Description
- Postcard : Paper : Ink : Black, White, Red, Blue, Biege, Purple ; Ht: 3,5 in. x W: 5,5 in.
- Other Title Information
- Documentary Artifact
- Date
- September 20, 1943
- Physical Condition
- Good
- Language
- German
- French
- Notes
- 1 page, double sided. There is a circular stamp on the front top right corner, on top of a square Belgium Postage stamp. Narrative: Handwritten postcard written by Otto Bondi from Malines transit camp (Belgium) to his children. He and his wife were deported with Transport XXII A from Malines, Caserne Dossin (Belgium) to Auschwitz Birkenau, Extermination Camp (Poland) on 1943-09-20. . He was the donor's father.
- Accession No.
- 1990.96.13
- Name Access
- Absil, Walter
- Places
- Malines, Belgium, Europe
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
Images
Letter
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn50323
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- textual record
- Physical Description
- Letter : Paper : Pencil : Yellow, Blue ; Ht: 6,8 in. x W: 5,25 in.
- Date
- September 22, 1943
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- textual record
- Physical Description
- Letter : Paper : Pencil : Yellow, Blue ; Ht: 6,8 in. x W: 5,25 in.
- Other Title Information
- Documentary Artifact
- Date
- September 22, 1943
- Physical Condition
- Excellent
- Language
- German
- Notes
- 1 page, written on both sides. Narrative: Letter was written by Margarethe (Gretl) and Otto Bondy during their deportation from Malines (Mecheln) transit camp in Belgium to Holland. The letter is addressed to Margarethe's mother and mentions her son, Walter referring to him as "W". Otto and Margharethe Bondy were later deported to Auschwitz-Birkenau where they were killed.
- Accession No.
- 1990.96.142
- Name Access
- Absil, Walter
- Places
- Brussels, Belgium, Europe
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
Images
Card
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn75131
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- textual record
- Physical Description
- Card : Cardstock : Printed, Handwritten : Ink : Beige, Black, White, Blue ; Ht: 12,1 cm x W: 7,1 cm
- Date
- September 4, 1943
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- textual record
- Physical Description
- Card : Cardstock : Printed, Handwritten : Ink : Beige, Black, White, Blue ; Ht: 12,1 cm x W: 7,1 cm
- Other Title Information
- Documentary Artifact
- Date
- September 4, 1943
- Physical Condition
- Excellent
- Language
- French
- Dutch
- Notes
- 1 horizontal page, double-sided. Folded vertically 2 times. Belgian identification card for Emile Walter Blondi, issued on September 4, 1943, attesting that he was born in Liège and presently resides in Vitrival. Document is numbered H35L, is a duplicate, and states that Mr. Blondi works as a day laborer. Square b&w identification photograph stapled to document in center of page. Narrative: This document served as false identification papers for the donor, Walter Absil. He was born in Vienna, Austria on November 26, 1924. He fled to Belgium with his family in 1938 and survived the war in hiding.
- Accession No.
- 1990.96.10
- Name Access
- Absil, Walter
- Places
- Vitrival, Belgium, Europe
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
Images
Receipt
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn75152
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- textual record
- Physical Description
- Receipt : Paper : Typed, Handwritten : Graphite pencil : Beige, Black, Grey ; Ht: 1,5 in. x W: 5,5 in.
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- textual record
- Physical Description
- Receipt : Paper : Typed, Handwritten : Graphite pencil : Beige, Black, Grey ; Ht: 1,5 in. x W: 5,5 in.
- Other Title Information
- Documentary Artifact
- Physical Condition
- Good
- Language
- German
- Notes
- 1 page, single-sided. Piece of beige paper with the German word Anerkannt - Recognized (trad.) typed on it, with the signature below it in pencil. Narrative: This receipt was signed by the mother of the donor, Walter Absil. Such receipts were issued to give camp inmates the impression that their belongings would be returned to them. Walter Absil obtained this receipt with his mother's earrings, as well as a receipt signed by his father and his father's watch, after the war. The objects had been found by Allied forces in a railroad car full of jewelry confiscated from prisoners. It is likely that the jewelry was confiscated from Margarethe Bondy-Fischer upon her arrival in Auschwitz.
- Accession No.
- 2011X.64.04
- Name Access
- Absil, Walter
- Places
- Auschwitz, Poland, Europe
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
Images
Certificate
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn75168
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- textual record
- Physical Description
- Certificate : Paper : Handwritten, Typed, : Ink : Beige, Black ; Ht: 5 3/4 in. x W: 8 1/4 in.
- Date
- June 9, 1942
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- textual record
- Physical Description
- Certificate : Paper : Handwritten, Typed, : Ink : Beige, Black ; Ht: 5 3/4 in. x W: 8 1/4 in.
- Other Title Information
- Documentary Artifact
- Date
- June 9, 1942
- Physical Condition
- Good
- Language
- German
- Notes
- 1 page, double-sided. Document exempting Erika Rübler from wearing the yellow star. She had to carry it with her Identification card. It was valid for 1 month and was extended twice to August 31, 1942. Additional handwritten note by the signatory on the bottom right corner that her name should be taken off the Jewish register.
- Accession No.
- 2011X.64.10
- Name Access
- Absil, Walter
- Places
- Brussels, Belgium, Europe
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
Images
Walter Bondy and sister Liesl in front of an antisemitic poster “Le complot Juif”
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn51324
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- Photograph : Paper ; Ht: 15,3 cm x W: 11,5 cm
- Date
- 1941
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- Photograph : Paper ; Ht: 15,3 cm x W: 11,5 cm
- Other Title Information
- Documentary Artifact
- Date
- 1941
- Physical Condition
- Excellent
- Notes
- b&w, white border. Brother and sister Walter and Liesl Bondy are standing in front of a wall covered in antisemitic posters reading "Jewish conspiracy" (in French: Le complot Juif and in Flemish: Juden Komplott). A white V letter is also painted on the wall next to where Lisel stands. The V for victory was a symbol of resistance to the Nazi regime. Narrative: Walter and his sister had fake Belgian identity cards and managed to survive the war in hiding. Both their parents as well as their maternal grandmother were deported from Kazern Dossin in Malines to Auschwitz concentration camp and killed there. On January 14, 1941, Victor de Laveleye, former Belgian Minister of Justice and director of the Belgian French-speaking broadcasts on the BBC (1940–1944), suggested in a broadcast that Belgians use a V for victoire as a rallying emblem during World War II. By July 1941, the emblematic use of the letter V had spread through occupied Europe.
- Accession No.
- 1990.96.12
- Name Access
- Absil, Walter
- Places
- Brussels, Belgium, Europe
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
Images
Identification card
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn75132
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- textual record
- Physical Description
- Identification card : Paper : Printed, Handwritten : Ink : Beige, Black, Purple ; Ht: 4 3/4 in. x W: 2 7/8 in.
- Date
- August 8, 1941-October 11, 1944
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- textual record
- Physical Description
- Identification card : Paper : Printed, Handwritten : Ink : Beige, Black, Purple ; Ht: 4 3/4 in. x W: 2 7/8 in.
- Other Title Information
- Documentary Artifact
- Date
- August 8, 1941-October 11, 1944
- Physical Condition
- Good
- Language
- French
- Dutch
- Notes
- 1 page, double-sided. 3 graphic panels on each side, intended to be folded and carried as a booklet. Folded vertically 2 times. Square b&w photograph of cardholder stapled to document in centre of middle panel. Document is a Belgian identity card, numbered 999748, for Gilberte Claire Crombag. Her information is listed on left panel: at time of document's issue, she was unmarried, unemployed, 15 years old, and had lived at the same address in Woluwe-Saint-Pierre for the past 6 years. Narrative: Gilberte Claire Crombag was friends with Liese Bondy, the sister of the donor, Walter Absil. She gave Liese her identity papers in 1943, when Liese went into hiding at a convent in Waterloo, Belgium. The photograph is of Liese Bondy.
- Accession No.
- 1990.96.09
- Name Access
- Absil, Walter
- Places
- Brussels, Belgium, Europe
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
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Certificate
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn75136
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- textual record
- Physical Description
- Certificate : Paper : Printed, Handwritten : Ink : Green, Beige, Black, Red ; Ht: 8,5 in. x W: 11,8 in.
- Date
- January 7, 1941
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- textual record
- Physical Description
- Certificate : Paper : Printed, Handwritten : Ink : Green, Beige, Black, Red ; Ht: 8,5 in. x W: 11,8 in.
- Other Title Information
- Documentary Artifact
- Date
- January 7, 1941
- Physical Condition
- Excellent
- Language
- German
- Notes
- 1 page, double-sided. Folded once horizontally and once vertically. This document certifies that Johann Peter Drießen is of German blood (Aryan). It was issued as a temporary certification and would have expired on May 2, 1941. Issued by the NSDAP Gauamt für Sippenforschung - Gau Office for Kinship Research (trad.) in Vienna. On the back of the document is a form to provide information about the subject, his parents and grandparents. Most of the fields are filled in, but there is no information provided about the maternal or paternal grandfathers. Narrative: The donor, Walter Absil, purchased this document at a flea market in Vienna after the war.
- Accession No.
- 1990.96.17
- Name Access
- Absil, Walter
- Places
- Vienna, Austria, Europe
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
Images
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