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Otto and Margarethe Bondy

https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn78351
Collection
Montreal Holocaust Museum
Description Level
Item
Material Type
graphic material
Physical Description
Photograph : Paper : printed, handwritten : Ink : B&W ; Ht: 5 in. x W: 3 in.
Collection
Montreal Holocaust Museum
Description Level
Item
Material Type
graphic material
Physical Description
Photograph : Paper : printed, handwritten : Ink : B&W ; Ht: 5 in. x W: 3 in.
Other Title Information
Documentary Artifact
Physical Condition
Good
Language
English
Notes
b&w picture with white border. The picture is a couple portrait of Otto Bondy and his wife, Margarethe Bondy nee Fischer. Narrative: Otto Bondy was the father of the donor. He was born in Vienna, Austria on January 1, 1897, and fled to Belgium with his family in 1938. In September 1940 he was interned with other German and Austrian Jews in St-Cyprien, but he escaped and returned to Brussels.He was deported from the Malines (Melechen) transit camp in Belgium to Auschwitz on transport XXIIA on September 20, 1943. the transport arrived in Auschwitz on 1943-09-22. Otto and his wife were both killed on Auscwhitz. Their children survived in hiding.
Accession No.
2011X.64.03
Name Access
Absil, Walter
Archival / Genealogical
Archival Descriptions
Repository
Montreal Holocaust Museum
Images
Less detail

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
Less detail