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Portrait of Simon Mordechai Rapkin in uniform
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn45519
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- Photograph : paper : photography : black, white ; Ht: 9 cm x W: 14 cm
- Date
- 1944
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- Photograph : paper : photography : black, white ; Ht: 9 cm x W: 14 cm
- Other Title Information
- Documentary Artifact
- Date
- 1944
- Physical Condition
- Good
- Notes
- b&w, white border. Outdoors. Canadian soldier Simon Rapkin in uniform standing on a bridge. He wears a dark military beret and unadorned uniform with a belt and thin strap across the chest. Narrative: Simon Rapkin was originally from Montreal. He was posted in England in 1942. He landed in France six days after D-Day. He was working in transport and did not see combat. After liberation, he was posted close to Bergen-Belsen concentration camp. He used to bring chocolates and other things to survivors of the camp.
- Accession No.
- 2009.15.04
- Name Access
- Rapkin, Sarah
- Places
- France, Europe
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
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