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Calendar
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn45461
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- object
- Physical Description
- Calendar : paper : printed, Mounted : ink : beige, black ; Ht: 13 in. x W: 7,25 in.
- Date
- 1942
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- object
- Physical Description
- Calendar : paper : printed, Mounted : ink : beige, black ; Ht: 13 in. x W: 7,25 in.
- Other Title Information
- Documentary Artifact
- Date
- 1942
- Physical Condition
- Poor
- Language
- Hebrew
- German
- Polish
- Notes
- Mounted on a backing board for the year, with a photograph of ghetto council leader Moredechai Chaim Rumkowski at the top. Calendar contains information about the Lodz (Litzmannstadt) ghetto history At the bottom of every page is a slogan or a quote of a Rumkowski speech (e.g. "Be sparing with electricity and gas", "Nobody has to be hungry in the ghetto", "For the good of the ghetto you have to follow my way", "The young people have to learn a trade"). The appendix includes an address and telephone register of all the work resorts and departments of the ghetto.
- Accession No.
- 2011X.58.06
- Name Access
- MHMC
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
Images
Hanukkah lamp
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn45466
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- object
- Physical Description
- Hanukkah lamp : sculpted relief : silver ; Ht: 5,5 in. x W: 8,75 in.
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- object
- Physical Description
- Hanukkah lamp : sculpted relief : silver ; Ht: 5,5 in. x W: 8,75 in.
- Other Title Information
- Ceremonial Artifact
- Physical Condition
- Good
- Notes
- 8 candle holders mounted against an elaborately sculpted relief background. The background is in the shape of a crown with scalloped edges; in the centre are represented the Tablets of stone flanked by two lions rampant. The candle holders are shaped like small pots and balanced on a bar. There is a handle on each side and a hollowed-out space beneath them to catch wax drippings. The whole is balanced on four small, elaborately patterned pad feet. The back is undecorated, designed to be laid flat against a wall; there are two interlocking rings near the top from which the lamp can be hung.
- Accession No.
- 2011X.58.07
- Name Access
- MHMC
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
Images
Trau keinem Fuchs Auf gruener Heid Und keinem Jud bei seinem Eid! Ein Lesebuch für Groß und Klein
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn45470
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- textual record
- Physical Description
- Book : Cardboard, paper : printed : Ink : red, beige, black, multi-coloured ; Ht: 18 cm x W: 25 cm
- Date
- 1936
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- textual record
- Physical Description
- Book : Cardboard, paper : printed : Ink : red, beige, black, multi-coloured ; Ht: 18 cm x W: 25 cm
- Other Title Information
- Documentary Artifact
- Date
- 1936
- Creator
- -
- Physical Condition
- Good
- Language
- German
- Notes
- Hardcover with cloth cover, text on left and image on right. Antisemitic propaganda publication for children, in the form of fairy tales. Front and back covers have red paper overlays: front cover features colour drawings of a stereotypical Jewish man with a big nose and a Star of David in the t.r. corner and a fox standing in grass on the b.l. corner. Inside are illustrated fairy tales; some examples include a comparison between a perfectly built Aryan man and a stereotypical Jewish man, a stereotypical Jewish man offering a good German girl riches, a group of happy German children in Hitler Youth uniforms and flying the DJ Fähnlein flag, and stereotypical Jews being deported while German children look on happily.
- Accession No.
- 2011X.48.01
- Name Access
- MHMC
- Places
- Nuremberg, Germany, Europe
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
Documents
Images
Envelope
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn45471
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- textual record
- Physical Description
- Envelope : paper : printed, handwritten : ink : blue-green, black, red ; Ht: 4,25 in. x W: 6,25 in.
- Date
- September 12, 1941
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- textual record
- Physical Description
- Envelope : paper : printed, handwritten : ink : blue-green, black, red ; Ht: 4,25 in. x W: 6,25 in.
- Other Title Information
- Documentary Artifact
- Date
- September 12, 1941
- Physical Condition
- Good
- Language
- German
- Notes
- Envelope issued by the Auschwitz concentration camp with printed instructions. On the left side there is a list of conditions to be observed in correspondence with prisoners; in the middle, the address to reply to; and on the right side, the address of the recipient. It bears a red 12 pfenning Paul von Hindenburg stamp, an "Auschwitz (Oberschlesien) a" postmark with the date "12 9-41 - 12", and a red approval stamp. Narrative: This envelope was sent by prisoner Ludwig Stankiewicz (b. 1903-08-25) from Auschwitz concentration camp to Mrs. Helene Stankiewicz in the Generalgouvernement.
- Accession No.
- 2011X.58.180
- Name Access
- MHMC
- Places
- Auschwitz, Poland, Europe
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
Images
Lieber Kriegsgefangener als Leiche
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn45476
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- textual record
- Physical Description
- Handbill : paper : printed, handwritten : ink : beige, red, black ; Ht: 6,5 in. x W: 4 in.
- Date
- 1943-1944
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- textual record
- Physical Description
- Handbill : paper : printed, handwritten : ink : beige, red, black ; Ht: 6,5 in. x W: 4 in.
- Other Title Information
- Documentary Artifact
- Date
- 1943-1944
- Physical Condition
- Good
- Language
- German
- Notes
- Double-sided Allied propaganda handbill dropped over Germany to encourage soldiers to surrender.
- Accession No.
- 2011X.58.175
- Name Access
- MHMC
- Places
- Europe
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
Images
Ballot
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn45477
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- textual record
- Physical Description
- Ballot : paper : printed, handwritten : ink : green, black ; Ht: 6 in. x W: 4,5 in.
- Date
- April 10, 1932
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- textual record
- Physical Description
- Ballot : paper : printed, handwritten : ink : green, black ; Ht: 6 in. x W: 4,5 in.
- Other Title Information
- Documentary Artifact
- Date
- April 10, 1932
- Physical Condition
- Good
- Language
- German
- Notes
- Voting ballot containing a table with the names of three candidates and circles to cast one's vote. Ballot for the second round of the 1932 presidential elections in Germany. The voter has made an X beside Adolf Hitler's name. Narrative: 1st round took place on 1932-03-13. Second round took place on 1932-04-10. The results of the second round were: Hindenburg (Christian conservatives): 53%, Hitler (NSDAP):36.8%, Thälmann (KPD): 10.2%.
- Accession No.
- 2011X.58.187
- Name Access
- MHMC
- Places
- Germany, Europe
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
Images
Crowd looking at broken shop windows after the November pogrom
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn45487
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- Photograph : paper : photography : black, white ; Ht: 10 in. x W: 8 in.
- Date
- November 11, 1938
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- Photograph : paper : photography : black, white ; Ht: 10 in. x W: 8 in.
- Other Title Information
- Documentary Artifact
- Date
- November 11, 1938
- Physical Condition
- Excellent
- Notes
- b&w, white border. Outdoor street scene of a Jewish shop with broken windows on the day after the November pogrom (Kristallnacht). A crowd is standing in front of the broken shopwindows, with people looking in and some passing by. On top of the shop is a broken shop sign reading “D. Lichtenstein“.
- Accession No.
- 2003.02.91
- Name Access
- MHMC
- Places
- Magdeburg, Germany, Europe
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
Images
Crowd looking at broken shop windows after the November pogrom
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn45488
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- Photograph : paper : photography : black, white ; Ht: 10 in. x W: 8 in.
- Date
- November 11, 1938
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- Photograph : paper : photography : black, white ; Ht: 10 in. x W: 8 in.
- Other Title Information
- Documentary Artifact
- Date
- November 11, 1938
- Physical Condition
- Excellent
- Language
- German
- Notes
- b&w, white border. Outdoor street scene showing a Jewish shop with broken windows on the day after the November pogrom (Kristallnacht). A crowd is standing in front of the broken shop windows with people looking in, some people are passing by. Above the shop window are two shop signs reading “Strumpfe Handschuhe Wäsche“ (wash gloves, stockings) and “Wer sieht, kauft“ (who sees, buys). The sign on the shop next door reads “Möbel Winkler / Verkauf Spiegelbrücke 5” (Winkler furniture, address).
- Accession No.
- 2003.02.92
- Name Access
- MHMC
- Places
- Magdeburg, Germany, Europe
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
Images
Crowd looking at broken shop windows after the November pogrom
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn45489
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- Photograph : paper : photography : black, white ; Ht: 10 in. x W: 8 in.
- Date
- November 11, 1938
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- Photograph : paper : photography : black, white ; Ht: 10 in. x W: 8 in.
- Other Title Information
- Documentary Artifact
- Date
- November 11, 1938
- Physical Condition
- Excellent
- Language
- German
- Notes
- b&w, white border. Outdoor street scene showing a Jewish shop with broken windows on the day after the November pogrom (Kristallnacht). A crowd is standing in front of the broken shop windows with people looking in, some people are passing by. On top of the windows is a shop sign reading “ Papierhandlung L. Sperling“ (L. Sperling paper treatment). The cafe across the street is flying a Nazi flag.
- Accession No.
- 2003.02.93
- Name Access
- MHMC
- Places
- Magdeburg, Germany , Europe
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
Images
View of Dachau concentration camp
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn45490
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- Photograph : paper : photography : black, white ; Ht: 6,5 cm x W: 9,5 cm
- Date
- 1945
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- Photograph : paper : photography : black, white ; Ht: 6,5 cm x W: 9,5 cm
- Other Title Information
- Documentary Artifact
- Date
- 1945
- Physical Condition
- Good
- Notes
- b&w. Outdoors. Bird’s eye view. Barracks, fence, towers and wall of Dachau concentration camp. Several prisoners are standing or walking through the complex. Pits of bodies are visible on the left.
- Accession No.
- 2003.02.1211
- Name Access
- MHMC
- Places
- Dachau, Germany, Europe
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
Images
Eine Minute die Dir das Leben retten kann
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn45508
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- textual record
- Physical Description
- Handbill : paper : printed : ink : beige, black ; Ht: 8 1/4 in. x W: 5 1/4 in.
- Date
- October 16, 1944
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- textual record
- Physical Description
- Handbill : paper : printed : ink : beige, black ; Ht: 8 1/4 in. x W: 5 1/4 in.
- Other Title Information
- Documentary Artifact
- Date
- October 16, 1944
- Physical Condition
- Poor
- Language
- German
- Notes
- Double-sided propaganda handbill distributed by the Allies to induce German soldiers to surrender. The reference to the issuer as “the best-fed army in the world” hints that the flyer is of American origin. The reference to the Atlantic Wall being broken implies a date range from June 1944 onwards.
- Accession No.
- 2000.43.01
- Name Access
- MHMC
- Places
- Essenede, Belgium, Europe
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
Images
Three women behind barbed wires at Bergen-Belsen
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn45737
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- Photograph : paper : photography : black, white ; Ht: 19 cm x W: 20,5 cm
- Date
- 1945
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- Photograph : paper : photography : black, white ; Ht: 19 cm x W: 20,5 cm
- Other Title Information
- Documentary Artifact
- Date
- 1945
- Physical Condition
- Good
- Notes
- b&w, white border. Outdoors. Three women standing behind barbed wire fence at Bergen-Belsen concentration camp after liberation in 1945. A fourth woman is just visible behind the first. All three are smiling; the one on the right is wearing a camp uniform and huddled as if she is cold.
- Accession No.
- 2011X.58.345
- Name Access
- MHMC
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
Images
Dachau museum: Hanging mannequin of concentration camp imprisoner
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn45792
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- Photograph : Paper ; Ht: 3 3/4 in. x W: 2 1/2 in.
- Date
- [ca. 1945-1950]
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- Photograph : Paper ; Ht: 3 3/4 in. x W: 2 1/2 in.
- Other Title Information
- Documentary Artifact
- Date
- [ca. 1945-1950]
- Physical Condition
- Good
- Language
- English
- Notes
- b&w with white border, scene inside the Dachau museum. Mannequin of a concentration camp prisoner wearing uniform hanging from his arms held behing his back. Narrative: This scene was part of the second exhibit made by the Geman survivors of Dachau. It was supposed to show the torture the inmates had suffered since as early as 1933.The exhibit was displayed in the crematorium of Dachau from the end of 1945 to 1950.
- Accession No.
- 2003.2.1216
- Name Access
- MHMC
- Places
- Dachau, Germany, Europe
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
Images
Young Holocaust survivors wearing striped uniforms
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn45793
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- Photograph : paper : photography : sepia ; Ht: 6,5 cm x W: 9,5 cm
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- Photograph : paper : photography : sepia ; Ht: 6,5 cm x W: 9,5 cm
- Other Title Information
- Documentary Artifact
- Physical Condition
- Good
- Notes
- b&w photograph. Two young men wearing striped prisoners uniforms are standing side by side. In the background one can see trees and observation towers. This photograph was probably taken after the liberation of a concentration camp and the two young men probably are former inmates.
- Accession No.
- 2011.07.01
- Name Access
- MHMC
- Places
- Europe
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
Images
Juden sehen Dich an
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn47422
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- textual record
- Physical Description
- Book : printed, photography, imprinted : beige, black, grey, blue ; Ht: 21,5 cm x W: 15,5 cm
- Date
- [Prior to 1937]
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- textual record
- Physical Description
- Book : printed, photography, imprinted : beige, black, grey, blue ; Ht: 21,5 cm x W: 15,5 cm
- Other Title Information
- Documentary Artifact
- Date
- [Prior to 1937]
- Creator
- -
- Physical Condition
- Good
- Language
- German
- Notes
- 95 pages; hardcover binding, grey cover with title imprinted on the top left in grey-blue; title and author also written vertically on the spine. Interior pages are beige and slightly glossy; they contain text and photographs of people.
- Accession No.
- 2011X.58.05
- Name Access
- MHMC
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
Images
Handkerchief
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn47510
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- object
- Physical Description
- Handkerchief : woven, sewn, machine, cutwork, embroidered : white, pink, red, blue, yellow
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- object
- Physical Description
- Handkerchief : woven, sewn, machine, cutwork, embroidered : white, pink, red, blue, yellow
- Other Title Information
- Personal Gear
- Physical Condition
- Good
- Notes
- White handkerchief with a cut border and a monogram (see inscription) and flowers embroidered in the bottom left corner. Handkerchief was folded and placed on a fabric-covered cardboard backboard, with patterned string tied around the middle. The covering fabric is pink with a floral pattern.
- Accession No.
- 2011X.58.11
- Name Access
- MHMC
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
Images
Stop them now: German mass murder of Jews in Poland
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn47538
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- textual record
- Physical Description
- Pamphlet : printed, bound, photography : black, white ; Ht: 21,5 cm x W: 13,7 cm
- Date
- [Prior to 1942-02]
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- textual record
- Physical Description
- Pamphlet : printed, bound, photography : black, white ; Ht: 21,5 cm x W: 13,7 cm
- Other Title Information
- Documentary Artifact
- Date
- [Prior to 1942-02]
- Creator
- -
- Physical Condition
- Good
- Language
- English
- Notes
- 14 pages, paperbound with staples. Black and white cover with the title in big white letters printed at the top. There is a sillouette of a man holding a whip; a white circle, with 1d printed in black, is in bottom left corner. The cover and interior pages are glossy. Interior pages consist of text and photos, divided into different articles. Narrative: Item includes a foreword by Lord Wedgewoodan and an article by Zygielboim on Nazi atrocities in Europe (see cataloguer's remarks).
- Accession No.
- 2011X.58.12-13
- Name Access
- MHMC
- Places
- London, England, Europe
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
Images
Tablecloth
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn47572
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- object
- Physical Description
- Tablecloth : woven, sewn, machine : peach
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- object
- Physical Description
- Tablecloth : woven, sewn, machine : peach
- Other Title Information
- Food Service T&E
- Physical Condition
- Good
- Notes
- Rectangular shaped. Peach base with a woven floral pattern throughout. 3 of 4 sides have been reinforced with stitching; the 1 long side has been cut raw. The stitched corners are rounded.
- Accession No.
- 2011X.58.14
- Name Access
- MHMC
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
Images
Unzer Lid
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn47585
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- book
- Physical Description
- Book : printed, bound : beige, brown, black, red ; Ht: 17 cm x W: 12 cm
- Date
- 1928
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- book
- Physical Description
- Book : printed, bound : beige, brown, black, red ; Ht: 17 cm x W: 12 cm
- Other Title Information
- Documentary Artifact
- Date
- 1928
- Physical Condition
- Good
- Language
- Yiddish
- Polish
- Notes
- 65 pages; paper cover bound togerher with 2 large metal staples; cover shows 3 cartoon men walking, wiht a red banner going through the centre, with the text written in the same brown as the rest of the book. Interior pages are beige; written in poetry format, with the text indented at titles on most pages. There are solid black bars at the top and bottom of each page.
- Accession No.
- 2011X.58.150
- Name Access
- MHMC
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
Images
Doily
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn47586
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- object
- Physical Description
- Doily : woven, cutwork, embroidered : white
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- object
- Physical Description
- Doily : woven, cutwork, embroidered : white
- Other Title Information
- Household Accessory
- Physical Condition
- Excellent
- Notes
- Round doily with its outer edges cut into a wave-like shape with reinforced embroidered edges. Along the interior diameter is lace in alternating patterns of bows and flowers.
- Accession No.
- 2011X.58.160
- Name Access
- MHMC
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
Images
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