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Cap

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Collection
Montreal Holocaust Museum
Description Level
Item
Material Type
object
Physical Description
Cap : sewing : grey, blue ; Ht: 3 in. x W: 7 1/4 in.
Date
1933-1945
Collection
Montreal Holocaust Museum
Description Level
Item
Material Type
object
Physical Description
Cap : sewing : grey, blue ; Ht: 3 in. x W: 7 1/4 in.
Other Title Information
Clothing, Headwear
Date
1933-1945
Physical Condition
Good
Notes
Cap made of striped wool, machine stitched. The interior is lined with herringbone fabric. Narrative: The cap was given to Alec Edmison by a former prisoner when he visited Dachau in 1945 as an officer of the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration (UNRRA). Alec (John Alexander) Edmison was born in Cheltenham, Ontario and praticed law in Montreal until his enlistment into the Black Watch, Royal Highland Regiment of Canada, in 1940. He served overseas from June 1941 to 1945-01-01, when he was appointed by UNRRA as its Chief Liaison Officer to Supreme Head-quarters Allied Expeditionary Forces (SHAEF). In France and Germany he set up the organization for the care of refugees, displaced persons, and concentration camp survivors. He died in Peterborough, Ontario in 1980.
Accession No.
2006.07.01
Name Access
Queen’s University Archives
Places
Dachau, Germany, Europe
Archival / Genealogical
Archival Descriptions
Repository
Montreal Holocaust Museum
Images
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