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ROSEN, Chaim
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/genealogy88369
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- JEWISH IMMIGRANT AID SERVICES (JIAS)
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- textual record
- Archival / Genealogical
- Genealogy Records
- Collection
- JEWISH IMMIGRANT AID SERVICES (JIAS)
- Material Type
- textual record
- Record Source
- JIAS Montreal Client Cards
- Fonds No.
- I0037
- Series No.
- R
- File No.
- 20-3075
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- Due to privacy laws, access to further information about this record is restricted. You may contact the Canadian Jewish Archives to learn more.
- Archival / Genealogical
- Genealogy Records
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- Canadian Jewish Archives
ROSEN, Chaim
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/genealogy88601
- Collection
- JEWISH IMMIGRANT AID SERVICES (JIAS)
- Material Type
- textual record
- Archival / Genealogical
- Genealogy Records
- Collection
- JEWISH IMMIGRANT AID SERVICES (JIAS)
- Material Type
- textual record
- Spouse
- Lea
- Date File Opened
- June 14, 1949
- Arrival Date
- June 14, 1949
- Place of Birth
- Poland
- Record Source
- JIAS Montreal Client Cards
- Fonds No.
- I0037
- Series No.
- R
- File No.
- 20-3077
- Restrictions
- Due to privacy laws, access to further information about this record is restricted. You may contact the Canadian Jewish Archives to learn more.
- Archival / Genealogical
- Genealogy Records
- Repository
- Canadian Jewish Archives
Rosen, Chaim - Oral History of a Holocaust Survivor and WWII Veteran
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn60298
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- WITNESS TO HISTORY COLLECTION (MHMC-02)
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- Material Type
- moving images
- Physical Description
- 01:44:56
- Collection
- WITNESS TO HISTORY COLLECTION (MHMC-02)
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- moving images
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- 01:44:56
- Language
- English
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- Chiam Rosen was born on December 7, 1918 in the small Polish town of Tomaszow Mazowiecki, to a father who was a ritual slaughterer/cantor/Hebrew teacher and a mother who was a housewife. When he was two, he moved to Magdeberg, Germany. His two brothers were born there, one in 1920 and the other in 1924. He began school in Madgeberg and finished, after another move, in Braunschweig, where he lived until the war broke out. In 1933 he and his brother were kicked out of school. His father took him to a cabinet-maker, where he became an apprentice. He worked there for 3.5 years. When he turned 18 he realized Germany was not the place for him and he obtained a Pioneer Certificate. He was given a certificate to go to Palestine. When he left in July 1937 he was seeing his parents for the last time. He made his way to Palestine via Italy. When he arrived he joined a kibbutz, building defense walls before working as a mounted police defending the towns. Eventually he joined the Palestinian army, was trained under the British army, and served in artillery groups. He was sent to Italy and there he received news of his brothers, both of whom had also joined the army, and his parents, who had been transported to the Warsaw (or Lodz) ghetto. Once the war was over Chiam went from Italy to Austria to Germany and Belgium, helping prisoners from DP camps, bringing food, transporting supplies and trying to help orphaned children. He visited Bergen-Belsen, not as part of the army but with a group of people who wanted to help. Eventually he was discharged and returned to Palestine. On the way he was reunited with one of his brothers. In Palestine he helped in preparation for the Israeli War of Independence, but did not fight in it. He and his brothers contacted their uncle who was living in Montreal, Canada. They were granted visas and emigrated to Montreal. Eventually they moved to Quebec City to work in the scrap metal business. Chiam married in 1954 in Canada. They separated after 40 years with no children.
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- WTH-060
- Name Access
- Rosen, Chaim
- Archival / Genealogical
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- Repository
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
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