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Article
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn47877
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- textual record
- Physical Description
- Article : printed, photocopied, stapled : black, white ; Ht: 28,4 cm x W: 31,4 cm
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- textual record
- Physical Description
- Article : printed, photocopied, stapled : black, white ; Ht: 28,4 cm x W: 31,4 cm
- Other Title Information
- Documentary Artifact
- Physical Condition
- Good
- Language
- German
- Notes
- 10 sheets of paper. Bound together at the top, left corner with a staple. Each page has 2 photocopied pages from a book. The photocopied chapter is: Die Jüdische Selbstverwaltung im Ghetto von Terezin (Theresienstadt) 1941 - 1945 (Translation: The Jewish self-government in the ghetto of Terezin (Theresienstadt) 1941-1945); this is then broken down into sub-chapters.
- Accession No.
- 2000.25.312
- Name Access
- Barber, Anna
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
Images
Article
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn47878
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- textual record
- Physical Description
- Article : printed, photocopied, bound : black, white ; Ht: 28,4 cm x W: 31,4 cm
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- textual record
- Physical Description
- Article : printed, photocopied, bound : black, white ; Ht: 28,4 cm x W: 31,4 cm
- Other Title Information
- Documentary Artifact
- Physical Condition
- Good
- Language
- German
- Notes
- 4 pages, bound with a staple at the top left corner. Each page has 2 photocopied pages from a book. The photocopied chapter is: Das Inventar Der Sammlung Von Terezin (Theresienstadt) (1941-1945) (Translation: TThe inventory of the collection of Terezin (Theresienstadt) (1941-1945)); the first 2 pages are text. The remaining pages is an inventory of the collection.
- Accession No.
- 2000.25.313
- Name Access
- Barber, Anna
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
Images
Chemise
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn47563
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- object
- Physical Description
- Chemise : woven, sewn, machine, hand : peach, grey
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- object
- Physical Description
- Chemise : woven, sewn, machine, hand : peach, grey
- Other Title Information
- Clothing, Underwear
- Physical Condition
- Good
- Notes
- Peach bodice with grey trim along the top edge and grey spaghetti-straps. Horizontal and vertical pleats are found in the front, along the top; vertical pleats are found on the back.
- Accession No.
- 2011X.82.03
- Name Access
- Boxerman, Anna
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
Images
The Emperor of Atlantis
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn47869
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- textual record
- Physical Description
- Booklet : printed, bound, photography, graphic arts : blue, black, white ; Ht: 24,2 cm x W: 17,3 cm
- Date
- March 18, 1982
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- textual record
- Physical Description
- Booklet : printed, bound, photography, graphic arts : blue, black, white ; Ht: 24,2 cm x W: 17,3 cm
- Other Title Information
- Documentary Artifact
- Date
- March 18, 1982
- Creator
- 0
- Physical Condition
- Excellent
- Language
- Hebrew
- English
- Notes
- 50+ pages (exact number unknown). Softcover, paper bound with staples. Cover is glossy blue with black and white text. At the top centre is a white musical note; at thelower centre is a set of music staffs with notes. The back cover is white with 3 horizontal blue lines, text and 2 b&w photos of a man and a women talking on the telephone. Interior pages are glossy white with black and some blue text, b&w advertisements and b&w photographs. Narrative: This is a booklet of the opera “The Emperor of Atlantis” by Victor Ullman and Peter Keen. The opera was composed while their imprisonment in the concentration camp Terezin (Theresienstadt). The opera was performed in the Frederic Mann Auditorium in Tel Aviv.
- Accession No.
- 2000.25.210
- Name Access
- Barber, Anna
- Places
- Tel Aviv, Israel, Asia
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
Images
Hiess, Anna - Oral History of a Holocaust Survivor
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn60300
- Collection
- WITNESS TO HISTORY COLLECTION (MHMC-02)
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- moving images
- Physical Description
- 01:04:39
- Collection
- WITNESS TO HISTORY COLLECTION (MHMC-02)
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- moving images
- Physical Description
- 01:04:39
- Language
- English
- Notes
- Anna Hiess (née Fliesser) was born in Vienna, Austria on April 12, 1914. Her family moved to Lemberg in 1918, after Anna’s father’s death. They were an assimilated family and did not experience discrimination before 1938, with the exception that they could not study wherever and whatever they wanted. Anna married in 1938. She left Lemberg with her husband in 1941, shortly after the German invasion. They went to Hrubieszow where they stayed a few months under false identity, leaving when people started to suspect they were Jews. They moved to Garwolin by train where they were helped by Stanislaw Piaskowski and the underground that provided them with a place to live and ration cards. Anna’s job was to conceal the forbidden radio while her husband worked in the income tax department. After the war, they moved to Lodz and started a new life with their son. The family immigrated to Israel in 1950 because Anna’s husband was in danger since he got involved in politics. They were disappointed when they arrived in Tel-Aviv and felt hostility coming from Jews who had lived in Israel since before the war. They decided to immigrate to Montreal in 1952, sponsored by a Canadian family they never met.
- Accession No.
- WTH-086
- Name Access
- Hiess, Anna
- Places
- Vienna, Austria , Europe
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
Images
History of the Theresienstadt Ghetto
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn47871
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- textual record
- Physical Description
- Manuscript : typed : white, black ; Ht: 35,6 cm x W: 21,8 cm
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- textual record
- Physical Description
- Manuscript : typed : white, black ; Ht: 35,6 cm x W: 21,8 cm
- Other Title Information
- Documentary Artifact
- Physical Condition
- Good
- Language
- English
- Notes
- 5 pages. No cover, paper bound with 1 staple at the top left corner. Pages are white, with typewritten text; consists of list of contents from a collection of documents (15 volumes) from Theresienstadt ghetto, as well as contents of the resulting book. Narrative: Item is a concept of a 15 volumes book series about the concentration camp Terezin / Thersienstadt.
- Accession No.
- 2000.25.310
- Name Access
- Barber, Anna
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
I Vid?l B?h: Že je to Špatné
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn47868
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- textual record
- Physical Description
- Manuscript : typed, graphic arts : beige, blue, black ; Ht: 21,8 cm x W: 15,9 cm
- Date
- 1943
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- textual record
- Physical Description
- Manuscript : typed, graphic arts : beige, blue, black ; Ht: 21,8 cm x W: 15,9 cm
- Other Title Information
- Documentary Artifact
- Date
- 1943
- Creator
- 0
- Physical Condition
- Good
- Language
- Czech
- Notes
- Approximately 60 pages. Unbound, paper. Pages are held in a folder made from 2 pieces of paper folded in half; front cover has a handwritten title in blue pen. Interior pages are beige, with photocopied text and b&w illustrations. Narrative: The manusript was sent to Mr. Stephen Barber in Montreal by Washington Action Office Consil Of Jewish Federation on February 9th, 1982.
- Accession No.
- 2000.25.04
- Name Access
- Barber, Anna
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
Letter
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn59861
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- textual record
- Physical Description
- Letter : Paper : Handwritten : ink : Beige, blue ; Ht: 20 cm x W: 12 cm
- Date
- June 23, 1940
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- textual record
- Physical Description
- Letter : Paper : Handwritten : ink : Beige, blue ; Ht: 20 cm x W: 12 cm
- Other Title Information
- Documentary Artifact
- Date
- June 23, 1940
- Physical Condition
- Good
- Language
- Polish
- Notes
- Letter written on lined paper, double-sided. Written by Avrum and Felka (donor's aunt and uncle) to Moishe and Sala Grushka (donor's parents). From 1940-41 Avrum and Felka were living on the Poland/Russia border and Moishe and Sala were living in the town of Brest (Belarus) and, later, Siberia. Narrative: Moishe Grushka and Sala (Sarah) Szer were born in Warsaw and were married in 1939. Moishe served in the Polish army in 1939 until Germany invaded Poland. At this time he was forced to flee to Russia where his wife tried to meet him. She was stopped by armed Germans with orders to shoot, but they allowed her to return to Warsaw. Late is 1939 she was able to travel to Brest. They were then sent to a logging camp in Siberia until 1943 when they were moved to Uzbekistan. Moishe worked as a baker and their first child, Anna, was born in 1945. After the war they returned to Warsaw to search for their families (both had been killed), then they moved to Montreal, Canada, in 1948. They both died in 1997. Avrum and Felka also left Warsaw and went to Ruzhana, Belarus. They had a baby girl sometime in this period, referred to in their letters. They were both sent to Auschwitz where they were both killed. Their families had remained in Warsaw and were killed, including their grandmother and the youngest sister of Sala and Felka, Etke.
- Accession No.
- 2009.7.2
- Name Access
- Denis, Anna
- Places
- Warsaw, Poland, Europe
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
Images
Letter
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn59867
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- textual record
- Physical Description
- Letter : paper : Handwritten : ink : Beige, brown ; Ht: 10 cm x W: 14 cm
- Date
- 1940-1941
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- textual record
- Physical Description
- Letter : paper : Handwritten : ink : Beige, brown ; Ht: 10 cm x W: 14 cm
- Other Title Information
- Documentary Artifact
- Date
- 1940-1941
- Physical Condition
- Poor
- Language
- Polish
- Notes
- Letter written on a small piece of paper, likely passed on by hand or included contained in an envelope for sending. Seems to be a fragment of a larger document. Narrative: Moishe Grushka and Sala (Sarah) Szer were born in Warsaw and were married in 1939. Moishe served in the Polish army in 1939 until Germany invaded Poland. At this time he was forced to flee to Russia where his wife tried to meet him. She was stopped by armed Germans with orders to shoot, but they allowed her to return to Warsaw. Late is 1939 she was able to travel to Brest. They were then sent to a logging camp in Siberia until 1943 when they were moved to Uzbekistan. Moishe worked as a baker and their first child, Anna, was born in 1945. After the war they returned to Warsaw to search for their families (both had been killed), then they moved to Montreal, Canada, in 1948. They both died in 1997. Avrum and Felka also left Warsaw and went to Ruzhana, Belarus. They had a baby girl sometime in this period, referred to in their letters. They were both sent to Auschwitz where they were both killed. Their families had remained in Warsaw and were killed, including their grandmother and the youngest sister of Sala and Felka, Etke.
- Accession No.
- 2009.7.8
- Name Access
- Denis, Anna
- Places
- Warsaw (?), Poland, Europe
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
Images
Letter
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn90364
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- textual record
- Physical Description
- Letter : Paper : typed, handwritten : Ink : off-white, black ; Ht: 27,8 cm x W: 21,5 cm
- Date
- July 7, 1982
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- textual record
- Physical Description
- Letter : Paper : typed, handwritten : Ink : off-white, black ; Ht: 27,8 cm x W: 21,5 cm
- Other Title Information
- Documentary Artifact
- Date
- July 7, 1982
- Physical Condition
- Good
- Language
- Czech
- Notes
- 1 page. One-sided letter. This document is a letter written by Joža Karas, a Czech musician, to Stephen Barber in Montreal. Joža Karas was in a tour in Canada and talk to his friend about his concerts in Montreal, Ottawa and Toronto. Narrative: Joža Karas was born is 1926-05-03 in Warsaw, Poland from catholic parents. In 1970, he learned about compositions and fragments of music from the Theresienstadt ghetto-camp. He found Hans Krasa children's opera Brundibar who was played 55 times from 1943-09 to 1944-08 in the camp. Joža Karas conducted a version of the opera in North American in Czech and English. He died in Bloomfield, Connecticut on 2008-11-28
- Accession No.
- 2013X.09.06
- Name Access
- Barber, Anna
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
Images
Manuscript
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn47870
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- textual record
- Physical Description
- Manuscript : printed, handwritten : white, black ; Ht: 35,7 cm x W: 21,8 cm
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- textual record
- Physical Description
- Manuscript : printed, handwritten : white, black ; Ht: 35,7 cm x W: 21,8 cm
- Other Title Information
- Documentary Artifact
- Physical Condition
- Good
- Language
- German
- Notes
- 4 pages. Unbound. Pages are white with text. Text has been underlined and crossed out. Handwritten comments were added before copying. The 3rd page is half empty at the top. Narrative: This is are the written memories of a concentration camp inmate. He writes about the situation in Terezin. He describes the conditions very detailed and with a lot of facts.
- Accession No.
- 2000.25.02
- Name Access
- Barber, Anna
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
Manuscript
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn47875
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- textual record
- Physical Description
- Manuscript : typed, handwritten : beige, black, blue ; Ht: 28 cm x W: 21,7 cm
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- textual record
- Physical Description
- Manuscript : typed, handwritten : beige, black, blue ; Ht: 28 cm x W: 21,7 cm
- Other Title Information
- Documentary Artifact
- Physical Condition
- Good
- Language
- English
- Notes
- 4 pages. No cover, stapled binding. Pages are beige with typed text; handwritten corrections have been added in pencil and blue pen. Last page is cut away at the end. Narrative: Short history of the area of the concentration camp Terezin. It starts with the building of the old Fortress by Joseph II (about 1780) and ends with the summary of holocaust in the concentration camp. The main focus of the text is children’s labour.
- Accession No.
- 2000.25.38
- Name Access
- Barber, Anna
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
Manuscript
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn47987
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- textual record
- Physical Description
- Manuscript : printed : beige, black ; Ht: 28 cm x W: 21,8 cm
- Date
- January 9, 1980
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- textual record
- Physical Description
- Manuscript : printed : beige, black ; Ht: 28 cm x W: 21,8 cm
- Other Title Information
- Documentary Artifact
- Date
- January 9, 1980
- Physical Condition
- Good
- Language
- English
- Notes
- 26 pages. No cover, unbound. Pages are beige with a photocopied table of contents, forward by Joza Karas and chapter 2 of the book Music in Terezin.
- Accession No.
- 2000.25.120
- Name Access
- Barber, Anna
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
Paintings from Terezin
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn47872
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- textual record
- Physical Description
- Booklet : printed, bound, graphic arts : white, black ; Ht: 23 cm x W: 17,8 cm
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- textual record
- Physical Description
- Booklet : printed, bound, graphic arts : white, black ; Ht: 23 cm x W: 17,8 cm
- Other Title Information
- Documentary Artifact
- Physical Condition
- Good
- Language
- English
- Notes
- 18 pages. Softcover, paper bound with staples. Cover is glossy white with black text printed at the top and bottom. The middle has a b&w drawing of people standing in a line facing a wall, while a group of people walk behind a carriage, which is holding what appears to be planks of wood. Interior pages are glossy white with text, including several poems, biographies for the artists and b&w drawings. 2 pieces of white paper, with printed text, have been inserted in the booklet; both papers are the same. Narrative: The exhibit was sponsored by The British Lidicce Committee and founded by Sir. Barnett Stross.
- Accession No.
- 2000.25.33
- Name Access
- Barber, Anna
- Places
- London, England, Europe
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
Pamphlet
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn47881
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- object
- Physical Description
- Pamphlet : printed : beige, black ; Ht: 21,6 cm x W: 14 cm
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- object
- Physical Description
- Pamphlet : printed : beige, black ; Ht: 21,6 cm x W: 14 cm
- Other Title Information
- Advertising Medium
- Physical Condition
- Good
- Language
- English
- Notes
- 1 page, folded in half vertically to make 2 pages. Paper. Beige with black text. This is the pamphlet belonging to the book Ghetto Theresienstadt by Zdenek Lederer. The inside contains a short summary, the content and the back part has a certificate to order the book by mail. Narrative: Item was printed by the publisher Edward Goldston & Son Ltd. (Financier Stephen Barber).
- Accession No.
- 2000.25.543
- Name Access
- Barber, Anna
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
Images
Pamphlet
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn78335
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- textual record
- Physical Description
- Pamphlet : Paper : Printed : Ink : grey, black ; Ht: 28 cm x W: 21,9 cm
- Date
- December 1978
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- textual record
- Physical Description
- Pamphlet : Paper : Printed : Ink : grey, black ; Ht: 28 cm x W: 21,9 cm
- Other Title Information
- Documentary Artifact
- Date
- December 1978
- Physical Condition
- Good
- Language
- English
- Hebrew
- Notes
- 4 pages. Page 1, b&w photograph at bottom of page showing men and women carrying wreaths. Page 2, two b&w photographs in the centre of the page showing children. Photographs preceded by 3 and followed by 4 paragraphs. Pages 3 and 4, text only.
- Accession No.
- 2000.25.311
- Name Access
- Barber, Anna
- Places
- Israel, Asia
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
Images
Pillowcase
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn47562
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- object
- Physical Description
- Pillowcase : woven, sewn, machine, embroidered, cutwork, coiled : off-white
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- object
- Physical Description
- Pillowcase : woven, sewn, machine, embroidered, cutwork, coiled : off-white
- Other Title Information
- Bedding
- Physical Condition
- Good
- Notes
- Off-white base, with no design. The front panel is longer than the back, which continues over the right edge, which is left open. The opening is stitched 10 cm on each side, with 6 thread-covered buttons, and button holes, in between, to keep the case closed.
- Accession No.
- 2011X.82.02
- Name Access
- Boxerman, Anna
- Places
- Czech Republic?, Europe
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
Images
Pillowcase
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn47836
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- object
- Physical Description
- Pillowcase : woven, sewn, machine, embroidered, cutwork, handwritten : white
- Date
- 1939
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- object
- Physical Description
- Pillowcase : woven, sewn, machine, embroidered, cutwork, handwritten : white
- Other Title Information
- Bedding
- Date
- 1939
- Physical Condition
- Good
- Notes
- White base, with an embroidered and cut design along the top . The front panel is longer than the back, which continues over the right edge, which is left open. The opening is stitched 12 cm on each side, with space for 4 buttons (see condition) and button holes, in between to keep the case closed.
- Accession No.
- 2011X.82.07
- Name Access
- Boxerman, Anna
- Places
- Czech Republic?, Europe
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
Images
Pochod Smrti
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn51338
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- textual record
- Physical Description
- Poem : paper : beige, black ; Ht: 3 3/4 in. x W: 7 in.
- Date
- 1945
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- textual record
- Physical Description
- Poem : paper : beige, black ; Ht: 3 3/4 in. x W: 7 in.
- Other Title Information
- Documentary Artifact
- Date
- 1945
- Creator
- Zpevak, Jindrich
- Physical Condition
- Good
- Language
- Czech
- Notes
- Title on top center with six paragraphs. Featuring also a black ink drawing of male prisoners at the bottom of the page. The poem is Holocaust related.
- Accession No.
- 2005.25.314
- Name Access
- Barber, Anna
- Places
- Czech Republic?, Europe
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
Images
Postcard
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn59860
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- textual record
- Physical Description
- Postcard : Paper : Handwritten : ink : Blue, beige, red ; Ht: 10 cm x W: 14 cm
- Date
- October 02, 1940
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- textual record
- Physical Description
- Postcard : Paper : Handwritten : ink : Blue, beige, red ; Ht: 10 cm x W: 14 cm
- Other Title Information
- Documentary Artifact
- Date
- October 02, 1940
- Physical Condition
- Good
- Language
- Polish
- Notes
- Letter in postcard format, sent by N. Wigutow in Warsaw, Poland, to illegible recipient in USSR. Narrative: Moishe Grushka and Sala (Sarah) Szer were born in Warsaw and were married in 1939. Moishe served in the Polish army in 1939 until Germany invaded Poland. At this time he was forced to flee to Russia where his wife tried to meet him. She was stopped by armed Germans with orders to shoot, but they allowed her to return to Warsaw. Late is 1939 she was able to travel to Brest. They were then sent to a logging camp in Siberia until 1943 when they were moved to Uzbekistan. Moishe worked as a baker and their first child, Anna, was born in 1945. After the war they returned to Warsaw to search for their families (both had been killed), then they moved to Montreal, Canada, in 1948. They both died in 1997. Avrum and Felka also left Warsaw and went to Ruzhana, Belarus. They had a baby girl sometime in this period, referred to in their letters. They were both sent to Auschwitz where they were both killed. Their families had remained in Warsaw and were killed, including their grandmother and the youngest sister of Sala and Felka, Etke.
- Accession No.
- 2009.7.10
- Name Access
- Denis, Anna
- Places
- Warsaw, Poland, Europe
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
Images
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