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https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn90285
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- textual record
- Physical Description
- Envelope : Paper : Ink : Black, White, Blue, Green ; Ht: 3,75 in. x W: 6,5 in.
- Date
- May 1976
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- textual record
- Physical Description
- Envelope : Paper : Ink : Black, White, Blue, Green ; Ht: 3,75 in. x W: 6,5 in.
- Other Title Information
- Documentary Artifact
- Date
- May 1976
- Physical Condition
- Excellent
- Language
- English
- Notes
- Blue sticker for air mail and postal stamp. Narrative: Envelope which accompanies the letter written by Rabbi Pinchas Hirschprung in May of 1976 to Jan Zwartendijk, the former Dutch Consul in Kaunas (Kovno). Rabbi Hirschprung personally thanks Mr. Zwartendijk (the father of the donor) for saving his life and those of other Jews.
- Accession No.
- 2002.14.3
- Name Access
- Zwartendyk, Jan
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
Images
Letter
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn45479
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- textual record
- Physical Description
- Letter : paper : handwritten, printed : ink : beige, blue, black ; Ht: 11 in. x W: 8,5 in.
- Date
- May 1976
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- textual record
- Physical Description
- Letter : paper : handwritten, printed : ink : beige, blue, black ; Ht: 11 in. x W: 8,5 in.
- Other Title Information
- Documentary Artifact
- Date
- May 1976
- Physical Condition
- Excellent
- Language
- English
- Notes
- Double-sided. Sender is Rabbi Pinchas Hirschprung. He is writing to Jan Zwartendijk, the former Dutch Consul in Kaunas (Kovno). He personally thanks Mr. Zwartendijk (the father of the donor) for saving his life and those of other Jews. Mrs. Hirszprung has stated that she wrote the letter on her husband's behalf. Narrative: Jan Zwartendijk was the Lithuanian director of Philips' radio and electronic company. He was briefly appointed Dutch consul in Kovno (Lithuania), from June to August 1940. With the support of L.P.J. de Decker, the Dutch ambassador in Riga (Latvia), Zwartendijk issued permits for Jewish refugees to enter Caraçao in the Dutch West Indies. After he was dismissed from his position as consul, he returned to the occupied Netherlands and continued to work at Philips. He has been honoured as Righteous Among Nations by Yad Vashem.
- Accession No.
- 2002.14.03
- Name Access
- Zwartendyk, Jan
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
Images
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