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- Canadian Jewish Congress organizational records 61
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- JEWISH IMMIGRANT AID SERVICES (JIAS) 194
- JIAS Montreal Client Cards 109
- JIAS Montreal Immigrant Case Files 1922-1951 85
- Jewish Colonization Association Colonist Report 6
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- Saint John Jewish Historical Museum Community Files 37
Place
- Belsen, Germany, Europe 2
- Buchenwald, Germany, Europe 8
- la Châtre, France, Europe 1
- Cleveland; New York, United States of America, North America 1
- Dachau, Germany, Europe 1
- Europe 2
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Black Record: Germans Past and Present
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn49662
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- textual record
- Physical Description
- Booklet : Paper : printed, bound : Beige ; Ht: 18,5 cm x W: 12,5 cm
- Date
- February 1941
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- textual record
- Physical Description
- Booklet : Paper : printed, bound : Beige ; Ht: 18,5 cm x W: 12,5 cm
- Other Title Information
- Documentary Artifact
- Date
- February 1941
- Creator
- Vansittart, Robert, Sir
- Physical Condition
- Excellent
- Language
- English
- Notes
- 56 pages. Softcover, paper bound with staples. Front cover is orange with a thick black border. Inside the border, the title is printed in black at the top, and the author is printed in white at the bottom. A Swastika is printed in a white circle, with the Reichsadler of the German Empire in the centre. The back cover is white with orange text. Interior pages are white with black text, divided into chapters. Narrative: The Reichsadler (English: Empire's Eagle, Imperial Eagle, or Eagle of the Empire) was a historic eagle national insignia deriving from the heraldic Roman Aquila during various times of Germany's history, including the German Empire, the Weimar Republic and Nazi Germany. After the defeat of the German Reich in 1945, the national insignia of West Germany and modern Germany is called Bundesadler.
- Accession No.
- 2011X.215.06
- Name Access
- Levy, Rachel
- Places
- London, England, Europe
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
Images
The Capture and Trial of Adolf Eichmann
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn47751
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- textual record
- Physical Description
- Book : printed, bound, photography, gilded : black, white, beige, blue ; Ht: 21,8 cm x W: 15 cm
- Date
- 1963
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- textual record
- Physical Description
- Book : printed, bound, photography, gilded : black, white, beige, blue ; Ht: 21,8 cm x W: 15 cm
- Other Title Information
- Documentary Artifact
- Date
- 1963
- Creator
- 0
- Physical Condition
- Good
- Language
- English
- Notes
- 666 pages. Hardcover, cardboard bound with string. Book has a dustjacket that is glossy black with the title and author printed in white; 2 b&w drawings appear under the title. The left drawing is a white outline of Eichmann's head, wearing a hat, with a black background surrounded by a thin white border; the right drawing is a white box with Eichmann's head drawn in black, wearing glasses, drawn behind several thin vertical lines. The spine of the dustjacket is black with white text and the back is white with black text. The book's cover is all black with the title gilded onto the spine. Interior pages are beige with text. Page 10 has a image of a photocopied document.
- Accession No.
- 2002.26.02
- Name Access
- Campbell, Robert
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
Images
Caskets of victims of the tragedy of Guerry’s wells
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn50022
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- Photograph : paper : b&w ; Ht: 12,5 cm x W: 17,4 cm
- Date
- 1944
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- Photograph : paper : b&w ; Ht: 12,5 cm x W: 17,4 cm
- Other Title Information
- Documentary Artifact
- Date
- 1944
- Physical Condition
- Good
- Notes
- White border with deckled edges. Outdoor scene of two men surrounded by casket laying on the ground in a field with a forest in the background. The man on the left seems like military. Some flowers have been laid on the caskets. The caskets belong to victims of the tragedy of Guerry’s wells. Narrative: The tragedy of Guerry’s wells is a jewish persecution that took place the night of the 21st and 22nd of July 1944 at Saint-Amand-Montrond (France) on a farm. 36 persons where thrown in three different wells along with some stones in order to crush them alive. Since the beginning of the war many Jewish hid there. Charles Krameisen was the only survivor. He went to the police to tell the tragedy. Robert Monheit (the donor) helped to hid Jews from Alsace-Lorraine (his hometown) to Saint-Amand-Montrond and nearby villages such as La Chartre. He gave lessons to the son of Charles Krameisen to prepare for his bar mitzvah. Regarding the wells, as he was in charge of reorganizing the post-war Jewish life in Alsace-Lorraine and had already links with Saint-Amand, he was part of the witnesses invited to attend the exhumation of the bodies of victims. His religious functions confirmed that the survivors had lost their spouses and therefore gave them permission to remarry.
- Accession No.
- 2012.31.44
- Name Access
- Monheit, Robert
- Places
- St-Amand, France, Europe
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
Images
Certificate
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn50029
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- textual record
- Physical Description
- Certificate : paper : beige , black ; Ht: 14 cm x W: 20,8 cm
- Date
- September 25, 1946
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- textual record
- Physical Description
- Certificate : paper : beige , black ; Ht: 14 cm x W: 20,8 cm
- Other Title Information
- Documentary Artifact
- Date
- September 25, 1946
- Physical Condition
- Poor
- Language
- French
- Notes
- One page. Official filled form with genreral informations of Robert Monheit and attestation of his discharge from Starsbourg center. On back b.l. two finger prints. Narrative: Rabbi Robert Monheit comes from Strasbourg and is born on September 24, 1920. During the war he was a chaplain and an officer in the French army. He helped Jews to hide in the region of Saint-Amand. He was part of the French resistance and did his military service from 1940 to 1944. In 1944 he was employed in a sugar factory to do mandatory work. After two months he was released from that. After the war he helped in Germany and he was part of the mobile-synagogue ambulance. He had two children in 1948 and 1949 in Strasbourg. He helped in the United States to send money to DP camps. He immigrated to Canada in 1951.
- Accession No.
- 2012.33.06
- Name Access
- Monheit, Robert
- Places
- Strasbourg, France, Europe
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
Images
Certificate
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn50031
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- textual record
- Physical Description
- Certificate : paper : beige, black ; Ht: 27 cm x W: 21 cm
- Date
- October 01, 1949
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- textual record
- Physical Description
- Certificate : paper : beige, black ; Ht: 27 cm x W: 21 cm
- Other Title Information
- Documentary Artifact
- Date
- October 01, 1949
- Physical Condition
- Good
- Language
- French
- Notes
- One page. Official filled form certifying Robert' Monheit's membership to the French Forces of the Interior from June 6, 1944 to September 9, 1944 in the orders of Commander Dupleix in the Indre department. Narrative: Rabbi Robert Monheit comes from Strasbourg and is born on September 24, 1920. During the war he was a chaplain and an officer in the French army. He helped Jews to hide in the region of Saint-Amand. He was part of the French resistance and did his military service from 1940 to 1944. In 1944 he was employed in a sugar factory to do mandatory work. After two months he was released from that. After the war he helped in Germany and he was part of the mobile-synagogue ambulance. He had two children in 1948 and 1949 in Strasbourg. He helped in the United States to send money to DP camps. He immigrated to Canada in 1951.
- Accession No.
- 2012.33.08
- Name Access
- Monheit, Robert
- Places
- Limoges, France, Europe
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
Images
Certificate
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn50032
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- textual record
- Physical Description
- Certificate : paper : beige, black, purple, pink ; Ht: 21,1 cm x W: 13,5 cm
- Date
- September 25, 1951
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- textual record
- Physical Description
- Certificate : paper : beige, black, purple, pink ; Ht: 21,1 cm x W: 13,5 cm
- Other Title Information
- Documentary Artifact
- Date
- September 25, 1951
- Physical Condition
- Excellent
- Language
- French
- Notes
- One page. Official document certifying Robert Monheit's residency in Strasbourg since June 9, 1945 delivered by Strasbourg Police Commisionner (?) on September 25, 1951. The document has two identical 4 francs pink postage stamp on b.l. Narrative: Rabbi Robert Monheit comes from Strasbourg and is born on September 24 1920. During the war he was a chaplain and an officer in the French army. He helped Jews to hide in the region of Saint-Amand. He was part of the French resistance and did his military service from 1940 to 1944. In 1944 he was employed in a sugar factory to do mandatory work. After two months he was released from that. After the war he helped in Germany and he was part of the mobile-synagogue ambulance. He had two children in 1948 and 1949 in Strasbourg. He helped in the United States to send money to DP camps. He immigrated to Canada in 1951.
- Accession No.
- 2012.33.09
- Name Access
- Monheit, Robert
- Places
- Strasbourg, France, Europe
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
Images
Charles Krameisen at memorial service of the victims of the tragedy of Guerry’s wells
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn50016
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- Photograph : paper : b&w ; Ht: 17,3 cm x W: 12,7 cm
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- Photograph : paper : b&w ; Ht: 17,3 cm x W: 12,7 cm
- Other Title Information
- Documentary Artifact
- Physical Condition
- Good
- Notes
- White border with deckled edges. Outdoor scene in which Charles Krameisen is around a crowd of people. Two men are looking at him trying to confort him. One of them is touching his shoulder. Charles Krameisen is wearing a long woolen coat with a white shirt and a dark tie underneath. Charles Krameisen was the only survivor of the tragedy of Guerry’s wells. Narrative: The tragedy of Guerry’s wells is a jewish persecution that took place the night of the 21st and 22nd of July 1944 at Saint-Amand-Montrond (France) on a farm. 36 persons where thrown in three different wells along with some stones in order to crush them alive. Since the beginning of the war many Jewish hid there. Charles Krameisen was the only survivor. He went to the police to tell the tragedy. Robert Monheit (the donor) helped to hid Jews from Alsace-Lorraine (his hometown) to Saint-Amand-Montrond and nearby villages such as La Chartre. He gave lessons to the son of Charles Krameisen to prepare for his bar mitzvah. Regarding the wells, as he was in charge of reorganizing the post-war Jewish life in Alsace-Lorraine and had already links with Saint-Amand, he was part of the witnesses invited to attend the exhumation of the bodies of victims. His religious functions confirmed that the survivors had lost their spouses and therefore gave them permission to remarry.
- Accession No.
- 2012.31.27
- Name Access
- Monheit, Robert
- Places
- St-Amand, France, Europe
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
Images
Charles Krameisen at memorial service of the victims of the tragedy of Guerry’s wells.
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn50017
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- Photograph : paper : b&w ; Ht: 17,1 cm x W: 12,5 cm
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- Photograph : paper : b&w ; Ht: 17,1 cm x W: 12,5 cm
- Other Title Information
- Documentary Artifact
- Physical Condition
- Good
- Notes
- White border with deckled edges. Outdoor scene in which Charles Krameisen issurrounded by many people at a memorial service. On both side of him two children , a boy and a girl. Everyone is wearing a hat and sober clothing. Charles Krameisen was the only survivor of the tragedy of Guerry’s wells. Narrative: The tragedy of Guerry’s wells is a jewish persecution that took place the night of the 21st and 22nd of July 1944 at Saint-Amand-Montrond (France) on a farm. 36 persons where thrown in three different wells along with some stones in order to crush them alive. Since the beginning of the war many Jewish hid there. Charles Krameisen was the only survivor. He went to the police to tell the tragedy. Robert Monheit (the donor) helped to hid Jews from Alsace-Lorraine (his hometown) to Saint-Amand-Montrond and nearby villages such as La Chartre. He gave lessons to the son of Charles Krameisen to prepare for his bar mitzvah. Regarding the wells, as he was in charge of reorganizing the post-war Jewish life in Alsace-Lorraine and had already links with Saint-Amand, he was part of the witnesses invited to attend the exhumation of the bodies of victims. His religious functions confirmed that the survivors had lost their spouses and therefore gave them permission to remarry.
- Accession No.
- 2012.31.28
- Name Access
- Monheit, Robert
- Places
- St-Amand, France, Europe
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
Images
Civilians visit crematorium installations
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn50043
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- Photograph : paper : b&w ; Ht: 16,9 cm x W: 22,7 cm
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- Photograph : paper : b&w ; Ht: 16,9 cm x W: 22,7 cm
- Other Title Information
- Documentary Artifact
- Physical Condition
- Good
- Language
- French
- Notes
- One black border on bottom of photograph. Indoor scene in which many people are looking at the crematory ovens. A soldier is guarding the place.
- Accession No.
- 2012.33.37
- Name Access
- Monheit, Robert
- Places
- Buchenwald, Germany, Europe
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
Images
Commandant of Auschwitz: The Autobiography of Rudolf Hoess
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn47750
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- textual record
- Physical Description
- Book : printed, bound, photography : red, yellow, black, white, beige ; Ht: 21,7 cm x W: 15 cm
- Date
- 1959
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- textual record
- Physical Description
- Book : printed, bound, photography : red, yellow, black, white, beige ; Ht: 21,7 cm x W: 15 cm
- Other Title Information
- Documentary Artifact
- Date
- 1959
- Creator
- 0
- Physical Condition
- Good
- Language
- English
- Notes
- 285 pages. Hardcover, cardboard bound with string. Book has a dustjacket that is glossy and divided horizontally into 3 parts: the top is red with white text, the middle has a b&w photo of the Auschwitz barracks, the bottom is yellow with b&w text. The colour blocking and picture continues along the spine and onto the back. The book's cover is red with 3 lines of illustrated barbed wire running horizontally across the front, spine and back; the title is gilded on the spine. The flyleaf has a red and black rectangular piece of cardboard taped to the page with writing on and underneath it (see inscriptions). Interior pages are beige with text divided into chapters. There are 4 pages in the middle of the book that are glossy and contain b&w photos and captions.
- Accession No.
- 2002.26.01
- Name Access
- Campbell, Robert
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
Images
Elie Wiesel and newly liberated prisoners in their barrack
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn50045
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- Photograph : paper : b&w ; Ht: 17 cm x W: 22,7 cm
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- Photograph : paper : b&w ; Ht: 17 cm x W: 22,7 cm
- Other Title Information
- Documentary Artifact
- Physical Condition
- Good
- Language
- French
- Notes
- No border. Indoor scene in which many men are lying down in a wooden bed structure. On the right, on man is standing, naked, with his prisonner clothes hidding a part of his body.
- Accession No.
- 2012.33.43
- Name Access
- Monheit, Robert
- Places
- Buchenwald, Germany, Europe
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
Images
Former camp official wearing shackles is being watched by former prisoner
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn50041
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- Photograph : paper : b&w ; Ht: 22,7 cm x W: 17 cm
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- Photograph : paper : b&w ; Ht: 22,7 cm x W: 17 cm
- Other Title Information
- Documentary Artifact
- Physical Condition
- Good
- Language
- French
- Notes
- No border. Outdoor scene in which one man is sitting on a barel and his legs are enchained. Another man, a soldier, is standing up next to him, guarding him. In the background, wooden walls.
- Accession No.
- 2012.33.33
- Name Access
- Monheit, Robert
- Places
- Belsen, Germany, Europe
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
Images
Former internee shows soldiers functioning of gallows
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn50049
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- Photograph : paper : b&w ; Ht: 22,7 cm x W: 17 cm
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- Photograph : paper : b&w ; Ht: 22,7 cm x W: 17 cm
- Other Title Information
- Documentary Artifact
- Physical Condition
- Good
- Language
- French
- Notes
- White bottom border. Outdoor scene in which soldiers are looking at a man that is explaining what is the structure in front of him, the gibbet. In the background there is some buildings roof.
- Accession No.
- 2012.33.51
- Name Access
- Monheit, Robert
- Places
- Ohrdurf, Germany, Europe
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
Images
Former prisoner crying
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn50046
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- Photograph : paper : b&w ; Ht: 22,7 cm x W: 17,1 cm
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- Photograph : paper : b&w ; Ht: 22,7 cm x W: 17,1 cm
- Other Title Information
- Documentary Artifact
- Physical Condition
- Good
- Language
- French
- Notes
- White bottom border. Outdoor scene in which a man is sitting on the ground crying. He seems to be preparing food.
- Accession No.
- 2012.33.44
- Name Access
- Monheit, Robert
- Places
- Nordhausen, Germany, Europe
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
Images
Former prisoners carry another newly liberated prisoner
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn50038
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- Photograph : paper : b&w ; Ht: 22,7 cm x W: 17 cm
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- Photograph : paper : b&w ; Ht: 22,7 cm x W: 17 cm
- Other Title Information
- Documentary Artifact
- Physical Condition
- Good
- Language
- French
- Notes
- White bottom border. Outdoor scene in which two prisonners are supporting another one that is not able to walk. In the background, some small buildings and a wooden whellbarrow on the left.
- Accession No.
- 2012.33.28
- Name Access
- Monheit, Robert
- Places
- Vaihingen, Germany, Europe
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
Images
Former prisoners stand behind barbed wires
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn50051
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- Photograph : paper : b&w ; Ht: 17 cm x W: 22,7 cm
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- Photograph : paper : b&w ; Ht: 17 cm x W: 22,7 cm
- Other Title Information
- Documentary Artifact
- Physical Condition
- Good
- Language
- French
- Notes
- No border. Outdoor scene in which we see three men, on the left side of photograph, looking through a barbed wire fence. On the other side of the fence, at a certain distance, two men are standing. In the background there are many trees.
- Accession No.
- 2012.33.58
- Name Access
- Monheit, Robert
- Places
- Vaihingen, Germany, Europe
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
Images
General Audibert and a group of newly liberated prisoners
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn50036
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- Photograph : paper : b&w ; Ht: 17 cm x W: 22,7 cm
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- Photograph : paper : b&w ; Ht: 17 cm x W: 22,7 cm
- Other Title Information
- Documentary Artifact
- Physical Condition
- Good
- Language
- French
- Notes
- No border. Outdoor scene in which a dozen of deported are walking. They are wearing the vertically striped prisoner clothes. In the background their is one building.
- Accession No.
- 2012.33.24
- Name Access
- Monheit, Robert
- Places
- Buchenwald, Germany, Europe
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
Images
Group of men 1945
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn49991
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- Photograph : paper : b&w ; Ht: 10,6 cm x W: 7,4 cm
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- Photograph : paper : b&w ; Ht: 10,6 cm x W: 7,4 cm
- Other Title Information
- Documentary Artifact
- Physical Condition
- Good
- Notes
- White border. Outdoor scene. Group of men, mostly soldiers, walking towards pavement. Behind them is a a fence, a country road, a hill and some trees.
- Accession No.
- 2012.31.01
- Name Access
- Monheit, Robert
- Places
- France, Europe
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
Images
Identification card
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn50024
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- textual record
- Physical Description
- Identification card : cardboard : beige , black, blue ; Ht: 13,5 cm x W: 20,9 cm
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- textual record
- Physical Description
- Identification card : cardboard : beige , black, blue ; Ht: 13,5 cm x W: 20,9 cm
- Other Title Information
- Documentary Artifact
- Physical Condition
- Poor
- Language
- French
- Notes
- Double-panel booklet attesting Robert Monheit's entry in the French Forces of the Interior as a military chaplain of the 12th area of Haute-Vienne County. On front panel b.r.a black ink signature over the two stamps. Inside the booklet, on left panel reads the date of Robert Monheit's entry in the resistance on February 1943. Narrative: Rabbi Robert Monheit comes from Strasbourg and is born on September 24, 1920. During the war he was a chaplain and an officer in the French army. He helped Jews to hide in the region of Saint-Amand. He was part of the French resistance and did his military service from 1940 to 1944. In 1944 he was employed in a sugar factory to do mandatory work. After two months he was released from that. After the war he helped in Germany and he was part of the mobile-synagogue ambulance. He had two children in 1948 and 1949 in Strasbourg. He helped in the United States to send money to DP camps. He immigrated to Canada in 1951.
- Accession No.
- 2012.33.01
- Name Access
- Monheit, Robert
- Places
- France, Europe
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
Images
Identification card
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn50025
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- textual record
- Physical Description
- Identification card : cardboard : beige, black, blue ; Ht: 13,6 cm x W: 21 cm
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- textual record
- Physical Description
- Identification card : cardboard : beige, black, blue ; Ht: 13,6 cm x W: 21 cm
- Other Title Information
- Documentary Artifact
- Physical Condition
- Poor
- Language
- French
- Notes
- Double-panel divided obligatory service card of chaplain Robert Monheit on which their is five circular ink stamps. The first one is on the front panel t.r and the three others can be found inside the booklet on the right panel. Three out of five reads Mairie de la Chartre (Indre). Inside the booklet different assignments of Robert Monheit. Narrative: Compulsory Work Service in France came from a law issued on February 16, 1943. Rabbi Robert Monheit comes from Strasbourg and is born on September 24, 1920. During the war he was a chaplain and an officer in the French army. He helped Jews to hide in the region of Saint-Amand. He was part of the French resistance and did his military service from 1940 to 1944. In 1944 he was employed in a sugar factory to do mandatory work. After two months he was released from that. After the war he helped in Germany and he was part of the mobile-synagogue ambulance. He had two children in 1948 and 1949 in Strasbourg. He helped in the United States to send money to DP camps. He immigrated to Canada in 1951.
- Accession No.
- 2012.33.02
- Name Access
- Monheit, Robert
- Places
- la Châtre, France, Europe
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
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