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Diploma
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn50287
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- textual record
- Physical Description
- Diploma : Paper : Ink : Black, White ; Ht: 9,75 in. x W: 13,75 in.
- Date
- March 12, 1948
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- textual record
- Physical Description
- Diploma : Paper : Ink : Black, White ; Ht: 9,75 in. x W: 13,75 in.
- Other Title Information
- Documentary Artifact
- Date
- March 12, 1948
- Physical Condition
- Poor
- Language
- Italian
- Notes
- 1 page. Around the edges are illustrations of men working in fields, and on buildings. Diploma awarded to Zoltak Jehoszua from ORT Electrical school. Signed by teachers.
- Accession No.
- 2011X.371.01
- Name Access
- Zoltak, Sidney
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
Images
Zoltak, Sidney - Oral History of a Holocaust Survivor
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn60311
- Collection
- WITNESS TO HISTORY COLLECTION (MHMC-02)
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- moving images
- Physical Description
- 03:26:35
- Collection
- WITNESS TO HISTORY COLLECTION (MHMC-02)
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- moving images
- Physical Description
- 03:26:35
- Language
- English
- Notes
- Sidney Zoltak was born on July 15, 1931 in Siemiatycze, Poland. He was raised in a traditional Jewish household and his life before the war was a humble but comfortable one. In September 1939, the Germans marched through his town, and again in June 1941, putting an end to almost three years of Soviet Occupation. Sidney’s parents were forced to labour, cleaning out Soviet bunkers. German authorities established a ghetto in the Polish part of town. In November 1942, following an order to liquidate the ghetto, Sidney recalls his family’s escape into hiding. They stayed with different villagers, changing places every few months and ultimately hiding in an open barn. Sidney could barely walk due to the harsh living conditions he endured during that difficult period. Following liberation in July 1944, Sidney returned to his hometown where he resumed schooling. Eventually, he and his parents left with the intention of going to Israel; however, they ultimately settled in Padua, Italy, living illegally in numerous DP camps. Sidney went to live in a children’s home working for the Youth Aliyah. Following the death of his father in 1945, Sidney and his mother spent a year and a half in a DP camp in Cremona, Italy. Responding to pressure from his mother’s family in Canada, he and his mother left Italy in 1948. In Montreal, Sidney met his wife, who is also a Holocaust survivor. They married in 1954 and had two sons; his eldest tragically passed away in 1973. Sidney kept in contact with one of the Polish families that offered his family a hiding place, and revisited Poland on two occasions. In his closing statement, Sidney mentions that he is active in Holocaust related issues - the immense feeling of responsibility and duty that he bears as a survivor has never left him.
- Accession No.
- WTH-428
- Name Access
- Zoltak, Sidney
- Places
- Siemiatycze, Poland, Europe
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
Images
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