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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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Prayer shawl

https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn47739
Collection
Montreal Holocaust Museum
Description Level
Item
Material Type
object
Physical Description
Prayer shawl : woven, sewn, machine, knotted, cut work : beige, black
Date
1945-1947
Collection
Montreal Holocaust Museum
Description Level
Item
Material Type
object
Physical Description
Prayer shawl : woven, sewn, machine, knotted, cut work : beige, black
Other Title Information
Ceremonial Artifact
Date
1945-1947
Physical Condition
Good
Language
English
Hebrew
Notes
3 black vertical stripes, of various widths, are found on either ends. All 4 corners, and a long edge, have been reinforced with additional material. The reinforced long edge (the neck band, known as an atarah) has additional sewn detailing, including what may be Hebrew text. A hole is cut out in each corner, with a knotted string (tzitzit) going through. Fringe is found on either wide end. Narrative: Tallisgiven to Marian (Myer) Lichtenstein by the Joint in Germany after his liberation from Buchenwald concentration camp.
Accession No.
2002.33.02
Name Access
Lichtenstein, Sarah Sybill
Places
Germany, Europe
Archival / Genealogical
Archival Descriptions
Repository
Montreal Holocaust Museum
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Machzor ?

https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn47741
Collection
Montreal Holocaust Museum
Description Level
Item
Material Type
book
Physical Description
Book : printed, bound, embellishments : black, brass, beige, white ; Ht: 17,9 cm x W: 12,4 cm
Collection
Montreal Holocaust Museum
Description Level
Item
Material Type
book
Physical Description
Book : printed, bound, embellishments : black, brass, beige, white ; Ht: 17,9 cm x W: 12,4 cm
Other Title Information
Documentary Artifact
Physical Condition
Good
Language
German
Hebrew
Notes
500+ pages (exact page number unknown). Hardcover, cardboard bound. Cover and spine are covered in black velour with metal (brass ?) strips attached to the edges. The front has metal embellishments on the corners and in the centre (see condition); the back has metal embellishments on each corner (see condition). There is a clasp, diamond shape with ornate detailing, that is attached to the back cover and hooks onto the front cover to keep the book closed. The flyleafs are a shiney, textured white paper. Interior pages are beige with the text divided into 2 columns, one side is German and the other is Hebrew. The last group of pages are completely in German. Narrative: Joel Wahnon (brother-in-law) was Portuguese diplomat to Vienna. In 1999-2000, his building was under construction, workers found books in the wall and gave it to him when they discovered he was Jewish.
Accession No.
2011X.347.01
Name Access
Wahnon, Sarah
Places
Vienna, Austria, Europe
Archival / Genealogical
Archival Descriptions
Repository
Montreal Holocaust Museum
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Dictionnaire: Français-Allemand / Deutsch-Französisch

https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn47742
Collection
Montreal Holocaust Museum
Description Level
Item
Material Type
book
Physical Description
Book : printed, bound : red, black, beige ; Ht: 13,6 cm x W: 10,5 cm
Date
1932
Collection
Montreal Holocaust Museum
Description Level
Item
Material Type
book
Physical Description
Book : printed, bound : red, black, beige ; Ht: 13,6 cm x W: 10,5 cm
Other Title Information
Documentary Artifact
Date
1932
Physical Condition
Good
Language
German
French
Notes
791 pages. Hardcover, cardboard bound with string. Cover is alternating black and red veritical stripes, with the title printed in white at the top, in front of a red rectangle with a black border; the title is also printed horizontally on the spine, with a floral motif at the bottom. Interior pages are beige, written in dictionary format, with the introduction in French.
Accession No.
2002.45.01
Name Access
Lichtenstein, Sarah Sybill
Places
Paris, France, Europe
Archival / Genealogical
Archival Descriptions
Repository
Montreal Holocaust Museum
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Engelhard, Sarah - Oral History of a Holocaust Survivor

https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn60316
Collection
WITNESS TO HISTORY COLLECTION (MHMC-02)
Description Level
Item
Material Type
moving images
Physical Description
04:49:00
Collection
WITNESS TO HISTORY COLLECTION (MHMC-02)
Description Level
Item
Material Type
moving images
Physical Description
04:49:00
Creator
Montreal Holocaust Memorial Centre
Language
English
Notes
Sarah Engelhard was born on July 10, 1932 in Alsace-Lorraine, France. Her childhood was spent in Toulouse, where she lived with her parents and her younger brother Jack. With an increasing number of Jews in Toulouse being taken by the Nazis, her family escaped to Spain when she around nine years old. To do so they obtained false papers and hired guides to take them over the Pyrenees. They lived in Spain for almost two years, finally immigrating to Canada on the first day of Passover in April 1944. Though she picked up English quickly, she didn’t enjoy her first years in Canada. High school was hard for her, and she dropped out at age 15 to help her father sell his handbags. Though she managed to do her part well, he did not, and the business fell through. She found a job in the music section at Eaton’s department store. When she was 18 she left home and became engaged to a man she had known in high school, Avi Boxer. That engagement fell through and, after obtaining her degree from St. George’s University, she married a man twenty years her senior named Harry. They had three children. She moved with Harry to Philadelphia where he was working as an engineer. There, she began to write French love songs and perform in dinner clubs as a singer as well as audition for plays. She also taught French, eventually getting a television program for teaching French. She and Harry divorced in 1972. A year or two later she returned to Montreal after having visited Europe for the first time since she left. She reunited with Avi, and though the relationship was sour they had a child, Asa. In 1993 she and Asa left for Israel, where she lived for nine years. She returned to Montreal in 2002 and has since written a book about her life.
Accession No.
WTH-470
Name Access
Engelhard, Sarah
Places
Saarbrucken, Germany, Europe
Archival / Genealogical
Archival Descriptions
Repository
Montreal Holocaust Museum
Images
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Wahnon, Sarah - Oral History of a Holocaust Survivor

https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn60317
Collection
WITNESS TO HISTORY COLLECTION (MHMC-02)
Description Level
Item
Material Type
moving images
Physical Description
01:17:00
Collection
WITNESS TO HISTORY COLLECTION (MHMC-02)
Description Level
Item
Material Type
moving images
Physical Description
01:17:00
Creator
Montreal Holocaust Memorial Centre
Language
English
Notes
Sarah Wahnon (née Goldman) was born in 1923 in Lisbon, Portugal. At the beginning of the interview she states that she is not a survivor of the Holocaust. Her parents were born in Poland in 1895. They moved to Berlin in search of a better life. In 1923, with the rise of Hitler, they moved to Lisbon as it was easy to obtain visas for Portugal. Her father opened a small factory and the business went quite well. Sarah worked in a department store. Her family wasn’t particularly religious, but her mother made Sarah and her brother take Yiddish and Judaism classes. Sarah speaks about the deeds of Aristides de Sousa Mendes, the Portuguese diplomat who issued an estimated 30,000 visas to Jews and other persecuted minorities in Portugal, against the orders of his own government, Prime Minister Antonio de Oliviera Salazar. Sarah also describes the Jewish life in Portugal before, during and after WWII, and the changes with the arrival of refugees from the rest of Europe. In 1950, she immigrated to Canada with her husband (a Sephardi Jew) and her father, mother and brother, because they wanted to experience a different environment. She had two children who were born at the Jewish General Hospital in Montreal.
Accession No.
WTH-473
Name Access
Wahnon, Sarah
Places
Lisbon, Portugal, Europe
Archival / Genealogical
Archival Descriptions
Repository
Montreal Holocaust Museum
Images
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Engelhard, Sarah - Oral History of a Holocaust Survivor

https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn60326
Collection
WITNESS TO HISTORY COLLECTION (MHMC-02)
Description Level
Item
Material Type
moving images
Physical Description
04:49:00
Collection
WITNESS TO HISTORY COLLECTION (MHMC-02)
Description Level
Item
Material Type
moving images
Physical Description
04:49:00
Creator
Montreal Holocaust Memorial Centre
Language
French
Notes
Sarah Engelhard was born on July 10, 1932 in Alsace-Lorraine, France. Her childhood was spent in Toulouse, where she lived with her parents and her younger brother Jack. With an increasing number of Jews in Toulouse being taken by the Nazis, her family escaped to Spain when she around nine years old. To do so they obtained false papers and hired guides to take them over the Pyrenees. They lived in Spain for almost two years, finally immigrating to Canada on the first day of Passover in April 1944. Though she picked up English quickly, she didn’t enjoy her first years in Canada. High school was hard for her, and she dropped out at age 15 to help her father sell his handbags. Though she managed to do her part well, he did not, and the business fell through. She found a job in the music section at Eaton’s department store. When she was 18 she left home and became engaged to a man she had known in high school, Avi Boxer. That engagement fell through and, after obtaining her degree from St. George’s University, she married a man twenty years her senior named Harry. They had three children. She moved with Harry to Philadelphia where he was working as an engineer. There, she began to write French love songs and perform in dinner clubs as a singer as well as audition for plays. She also taught French, eventually getting a television program for teaching French. She and Harry divorced in 1972. A year or two later she returned to Montreal after having visited Europe for the first time since she left. She reunited with Avi, and though the relationship was sour they had a child, Asa. In 1993 she and Asa left for Israel, where she lived for nine years. She returned to Montreal in 2002 and has since written a book about her life.
Accession No.
WTH-537
Name Access
Engelhard, Sarah
Places
Saarbrucken, Germany, Europe
Archival / Genealogical
Archival Descriptions
Repository
Montreal Holocaust Museum
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Sarah E. Fischer Collection

https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn30235
Collection
Sarah Fischer Collection
Description Level
Fonds
Material Type
multiple media
Physical Description
0.6m
Fonds No.
1017
Date
1913-1975
Scope and Content
Fonds consists of recital programmes, correspondence, audio recordings, printing blocks and photographs. It is organized into two series. Series one contains Fischer's professional activities (containers 1-2, 5-7). Series two contains Fischer's personal activities (containers 3-4).
Collection
Sarah Fischer Collection
Description Level
Fonds
Material Type
multiple media
Physical Description
0.6m
Scope and Content
Fonds consists of recital programmes, correspondence, audio recordings, printing blocks and photographs. It is organized into two series. Series one contains Fischer's professional activities (containers 1-2, 5-7). Series two contains Fischer's personal activities (containers 3-4).
Date
1913-1975
Fonds No.
1017
Storage Location
JPL
History / Biographical
Sarah Fischer was born in Paris, France, moved as a young girl to England, where she attended grade school. At the age of 13 she and her parents (1909) came to Canada and they settled in Montreal. In Montreal, Fischer was employed as a long distance operator during the day and at night took free singing lessons at the Monument Nationale. In 1917, Fischer won the Strathcona Award which enabled her to go to London, England on a three-year scholarship at the Royal College of Music. She left Montreal in 1919 and with a few interruptions spent the next 21 years of her life abroad. She sang in major opera houses in Europe, gave numerous radio recitals and concerts and achieved good reviews. She was considered a most lyrical soprano with a beautiful appearance and good acting ability. In 1940 she returned to Montreal. For the next 35 years, until she died on May 3, 1975, Fischer spent most of her time orgnanizing the Sarah Fischer Concerts where young musicians got a chance to appear in public and show their talent. Many prominent Canadian musicians got their start with these concerts.
Language
English
Related Material
Related photographs in the JPL Photograph Collection. Larger collection of Sarah Fischer housed at the Library and Archives of Canada.
Accession No.
00-004
Name Access
Fischer, Sarah E., 1896-1975
Subjects
Musicians
Places
Montreal (Quebec)
Archival / Genealogical
Archival Descriptions
Repository
Jewish Public Library Archives
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Professional Activities

https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn30518
Collection
Sarah Fischer Collection
Description Level
Series
Material Type
multiple media
Physical Description
0.4m
Fonds No.
1017; 1
Date
1913-1973
Scope and Content
Series consists of material documenting Fischer's professional activities including recital programmes, recordings, posters and sheet music.
Collection
Sarah Fischer Collection
Description Level
Series
Material Type
multiple media
Physical Description
0.4m
Scope and Content
Series consists of material documenting Fischer's professional activities including recital programmes, recordings, posters and sheet music.
Date
1913-1973
Fonds No.
1017
Series No.
1
Storage Location
4-5A
Creator
Fischer, Sarah
Language
English
Name Access
Fischer, Sarah E., 1896-1975
Subjects
Musicians
Women - Jewish
Operas
Archival / Genealogical
Archival Descriptions
Repository
Jewish Public Library Archives
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Captions for Expo 1967 display of Sarah Fischer costumes

https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn30523
Collection
Sarah Fischer Collection
Description Level
File
Material Type
textual record
Fonds No.
1017; 1; 00004
Date
1967
Collection
Sarah Fischer Collection
Description Level
File
Material Type
textual record
Date
1967
Fonds No.
1017
Series No.
1
File No.
00004
Storage Location
4-5A
Name Access
Fischer, Sarah E., 1896-1975
Subjects
Costumes.
Expo 67 [Montreal, Quebec].
Museums -- Israel.
Opera Guild of Montreal, Inc.
Archival / Genealogical
Archival Descriptions
Repository
Jewish Public Library Archives
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Recital programmes

https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn30520
Collection
Sarah Fischer Collection
Description Level
File
Material Type
textual record
Fonds No.
1017; 1; 00005
Date
1913-1940
Collection
Sarah Fischer Collection
Description Level
File
Material Type
textual record
Date
1913-1940
Fonds No.
1017
Series No.
1
File No.
00005
Storage Location
4-5A
Name Access
Fischer, Sarah E., 1896-1975
Subjects
Musicians
Operas
Women - Jewish
Archival / Genealogical
Archival Descriptions
Repository
Jewish Public Library Archives
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Publicity posters, Wigmore Hall

https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn30521
Collection
Sarah Fischer Collection
Description Level
File
Material Type
textual record
Fonds No.
1017; 1; 00006
Collection
Sarah Fischer Collection
Description Level
File
Material Type
textual record
Fonds No.
1017
Series No.
1
File No.
00006
Storage Location
4-5A
Language
English
Name Access
Fischer, Sarah E., 1896-1975
Subjects
Musicians
Women - Jewish
Wigmore Hall (London, England)
Archival / Genealogical
Archival Descriptions
Repository
Jewish Public Library Archives
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Publicity posters, General

https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn30522
Collection
Sarah Fischer Collection
Description Level
File
Material Type
textual record
Fonds No.
1017; 1; 00007
Collection
Sarah Fischer Collection
Description Level
File
Material Type
textual record
Fonds No.
1017
Series No.
1
File No.
00007
Storage Location
4-5A
Name Access
Fischer, Sarah E., 1896-1975
Subjects
Musicians
Operas
Archival / Genealogical
Archival Descriptions
Repository
Jewish Public Library Archives
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Audio recordings

https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn30541
Collection
Sarah Fischer Collection
Description Level
File
Material Type
sound recording
Fonds No.
1017; 1; 00008
Date
1918-1967
Scope and Content
Includes 19 recordings; 1 cassette, 1 vinyl record; 17 magnetic tapes. The cassette and (signed) vinyl recording feature operatic arias and Elizabethan love songs featuring Sarah Fischer.
Collection
Sarah Fischer Collection
Description Level
File
Material Type
sound recording
Scope and Content
Includes 19 recordings; 1 cassette, 1 vinyl record; 17 magnetic tapes. The cassette and (signed) vinyl recording feature operatic arias and Elizabethan love songs featuring Sarah Fischer.
Date
1918-1967
Fonds No.
1017
Series No.
1
File No.
00008
Storage Location
JPL Stacks
Creator
Fischer, Sarah
Name Access
Fischer, Sarah E., 1896-1975
Subjects
Musicians
Operas
Women - Jewish
Archival / Genealogical
Archival Descriptions
Repository
Jewish Public Library Archives
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Programs, Sarah Fischer Concerts

https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn30546
Collection
Sarah Fischer Collection
Description Level
File
Material Type
textual record
Fonds No.
1017; 1; 00012
Collection
Sarah Fischer Collection
Description Level
File
Material Type
textual record
Fonds No.
1017
Series No.
1
File No.
00012
Storage Location
4-5A
Name Access
Fischer, Sarah E., 1896-1975
Subjects
Musicians
Concerts.
Archival / Genealogical
Archival Descriptions
Repository
Jewish Public Library Archives
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Reports, Sarah Fischer Concerts

https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn30545
Collection
Sarah Fischer Collection
Description Level
File
Material Type
textual record
Fonds No.
1017; 1; 00013
Collection
Sarah Fischer Collection
Description Level
File
Material Type
textual record
Fonds No.
1017
Series No.
1
File No.
00013
Storage Location
4-5A
Name Access
Fischer, Sarah E., 1896-1975
Subjects
Musicians
Archival / Genealogical
Archival Descriptions
Repository
Jewish Public Library Archives
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Scholarships, Concerts, Auditions, Sarah Fischer Concerts

https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn30544
Collection
Sarah Fischer Collection
Description Level
File
Material Type
textual record
Fonds No.
1017; 1; 00014
Collection
Sarah Fischer Collection
Description Level
File
Material Type
textual record
Fonds No.
1017
Series No.
1
File No.
00014
Storage Location
4-5A
Name Access
Fischer, Sarah E., 1896-1975
Subjects
Musicians
Women - Jewish
Archival / Genealogical
Archival Descriptions
Repository
Jewish Public Library Archives
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Personal Life

https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn30519
Collection
Sarah Fischer Collection
Description Level
Series
Material Type
multiple media
Physical Description
0.2m
Fonds No.
1017; 2
Date
1917-1974
Scope and Content
Series consists of materials related to the personal life of Sarah Fischer including clippings kept by Fischer, books given to Fischer as presents, photographs and biographical information.
Collection
Sarah Fischer Collection
Description Level
Series
Material Type
multiple media
Physical Description
0.2m
Scope and Content
Series consists of materials related to the personal life of Sarah Fischer including clippings kept by Fischer, books given to Fischer as presents, photographs and biographical information.
Date
1917-1974
Fonds No.
1017
Series No.
2
Storage Location
4-5A
Name Access
Fischer, Sarah E., 1896-1975
Subjects
Musicians
Operas
Women - Jewish
Archival / Genealogical
Archival Descriptions
Repository
Jewish Public Library Archives
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Correspondence

https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn30550
Collection
Sarah Fischer Collection
Description Level
File
Material Type
textual record
Fonds No.
1017; 2; 00017
Date
1940-1974
Collection
Sarah Fischer Collection
Description Level
File
Material Type
textual record
Date
1940-1974
Fonds No.
1017
Series No.
2
File No.
00017
Storage Location
JPL Stacks
Creator
Fischer, Sarah
Name Access
Fischer, Sarah E., 1896-1975
Subjects
Musicians
Archival / Genealogical
Archival Descriptions
Repository
Jewish Public Library Archives
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Group portrait of (l to r) Esther Elkin, Dr. Leon [Lorne], Saidye Bronfman, Jean Lallemand, and Sarah Fischer, Sarah Fischer Concerts event, Ritz-Carlton Hotel, Montreal.

https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn23766
Collection
Photograph Collection
Description Level
Item
Material Type
graphic material
Fonds No.
1255; 005811
Date
February 23, 1975
Scope and Content
Donated to Mrs. E. Miller and the JPL by Sarah Eugene Fischer on Feb. 23, 1975.
Collection
Photograph Collection
Description Level
Item
Material Type
graphic material
Scope and Content
Donated to Mrs. E. Miller and the JPL by Sarah Eugene Fischer on Feb. 23, 1975.
Date
February 23, 1975
Fonds No.
1255
Item No.
005811
Notes
Copy 2 of 2
Location, date and people identified on verso.
Name Access
Fischer, Sarah.
ELKIN, Esther
Places
Montreal (Quebec)
Archival / Genealogical
Archival Descriptions
Repository
Jewish Public Library Archives
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