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Akos Kroo with the Chief Judge of the Jewish Court

https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn51353
Collection
Montreal Holocaust Museum
Description Level
Item
Material Type
graphic material
Physical Description
Photograph : Paper ; Ht: 6 in. x W: 4 in.
Date
[ca. 1947]
Collection
Montreal Holocaust Museum
Description Level
Item
Material Type
graphic material
Physical Description
Photograph : Paper ; Ht: 6 in. x W: 4 in.
Other Title Information
Documentary Artifact
Date
[ca. 1947]
Physical Condition
Good
Notes
b&w, outdoor scene. Two men walking together. Man on left wearing dark suit with bowler hat is the donor's father. He is talking to old man with white beard and Shtreimel who is the the Chief Judge of the Jewish Court “Rosh Bezdin”. Narrative: Akos Kroo was donor Emil Kroo's father. Prior to the war, the Kroo family owned a big furniture factiory in Munkacz, Czech Republic.
Accession No.
2001.17.10
Name Access
Kroo, Emil
Places
Bramberg?, Germany?, Europe
Archival / Genealogical
Archival Descriptions
Repository
Montreal Holocaust Museum
Images
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Amercian Ambassador visting the Fürth DP camp

https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn45782
Collection
Montreal Holocaust Museum
Description Level
Item
Material Type
graphic material
Physical Description
Photograph : Paper ; Ht: 4 in. x W: 5 in.
Date
1946
Collection
Montreal Holocaust Museum
Description Level
Item
Material Type
graphic material
Physical Description
Photograph : Paper ; Ht: 4 in. x W: 5 in.
Other Title Information
Documentary Artifact
Date
1946
Physical Condition
Good
Notes
b&w with white border, outdoor scene. Special ambassador for US President Truman visiting the Camp at Fuerth displaced persons camp. Men in dark suits, walking towards the camera, one is looking to the left, to the barracks. One man next to a door wearing a white armband. Trees in background. Narrative: Donor Emil Kroo is a Holocaust survivor originally from Munkacz (Czech Republic). Emil was in terned in a slave labour cmap in Hungary until 1944. He later met his wife Rosa Magien in Romania. After the war they were in a displaced persons camp in Fürth, Germany. Emil Kroo was the Vice-President of the Central Committee of liberated Jews in the American Zone of Germany. They immigrated to New York in 1950 before settling in Montreal.
Accession No.
2001.17.08
Name Access
Kroo, Emil
Places
Fuerth, Germany, Europe
Archival / Genealogical
Archival Descriptions
Repository
Montreal Holocaust Museum
Images
Less detail

Memorial tombstone

https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn45783
Collection
Montreal Holocaust Museum
Description Level
Item
Material Type
graphic material
Physical Description
Photograph : Paper ; Ht: 4 in. x W: 5 in.
Collection
Montreal Holocaust Museum
Description Level
Item
Material Type
graphic material
Physical Description
Photograph : Paper ; Ht: 4 in. x W: 5 in.
Other Title Information
Documentary Artifact
Physical Condition
Good
Language
Hebrew
Notes
b&w, oudoor scene. Two men at tombstone first placed in camp, now in Jewish cemetary of Fuerth. Erected to commemorate the 6 million Jews killed by the Nazis. Man on left wearing white coat, man on right in dark suit. Building in background. Narrative: Donor Emil Kroo is a Holocaust survivor originally from Munkacz (Czech Republic). Emil was in terned in a slave labour cmap in Hungary until 1944. He later met his wife Rosa Magien in Romania. After the war they were in a displaced persons camp in Fürth, Germany. Emil Kroo was the Vice-President of the Central Committee of liberated Jews in the American Zone of Germany. They immigrated to New York in 1950 before settling in Montreal.
Accession No.
2001.17.09
Name Access
Kroo, Emil
Places
Fuerth, Germany, Europe
Archival / Genealogical
Archival Descriptions
Repository
Montreal Holocaust Museum
Images
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Photo of the Central Committee of Liberated Jews in the American Zone of Germany

https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn51352
Collection
Montreal Holocaust Museum
Description Level
Item
Material Type
graphic material
Physical Description
Photograph : Paper ; Ht: 4 in. x W: 5 in.
Date
1947
Collection
Montreal Holocaust Museum
Description Level
Item
Material Type
graphic material
Physical Description
Photograph : Paper ; Ht: 4 in. x W: 5 in.
Other Title Information
Documentary Artifact
Date
1947
Physical Condition
Good
Language
English
Notes
b&w, photo of a board with pictures of 9 men surrounding picture of a woman. The name and position of each person are specified under each picture. The picture shows photos of L. Endzweig (President), B. Tennenbaum (General Secretary), J.Eichler (Member of Pres.), Emil Kroo (Vice-President), R. Ringold (Supply), Ch. Krut (Kibuzim), H. Singer (Culture), B. Orenstein (Hist. Commission), B. Kolb and K. Blacharz. Narrative: Donor Emil Kroo is a Holocaust survivor originally from Munkacz (Czech Republic). Emil was in terned in a slave labour cmap in Hungary until 1944. He later met his wife Rosa Magien in Romania. After the war they were in a displaced persons camp in Fürth, Germany. Emil Kroo was the Vice-President of the Central Committee of liberated Jews in the American Zone of Germany. They immigrated to New York in 1950 before settling in Montreal.
Accession No.
2001.17.07
Name Access
Kroo, Emil
Places
Bamberg, Germany, Europe
Archival / Genealogical
Archival Descriptions
Repository
Montreal Holocaust Museum
Images
Less detail

Special ambassador of President Truman with Colonel Cummings and Emil Kroo

https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn45784
Collection
Montreal Holocaust Museum
Description Level
Item
Material Type
graphic material
Physical Description
Photograph : Paper ; Ht: 7 in. x W: 4 in.
Collection
Montreal Holocaust Museum
Description Level
Item
Material Type
graphic material
Physical Description
Photograph : Paper ; Ht: 7 in. x W: 4 in.
Other Title Information
Documentary Artifact
Physical Condition
Good
Notes
b&w with white border, portrait of the special ambassador of President Harry Truman, who was visiting the refugee camp at Fuerth and met with the Camp Director Colonel Cummings and Emil Kroo. Narrative: Donor Emil Kroo is a Holocaust survivor originally from Munkacz (Czech Republic). Emil was in terned in a slave labour cmap in Hungary until 1944. He later met his wife Rosa Magien in Romania. After the war they were in a displaced persons camp in Fürth, Germany. Emil Kroo was the Vice-President of the Central Committee of liberated Jews in the American Zone of Germany. They immigrated to New York in 1950 before settling in Montreal.
Accession No.
2001.17.11
Name Access
Kroo, Emil
Places
Fuerth, Germany, Europe
Archival / Genealogical
Archival Descriptions
Repository
Montreal Holocaust Museum
Images
Less detail