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Bayla Friedfer Zucker and Fishke Zucker
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn75198
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- Photograph : Paper ; Ht: 5 1/8 in. x W: 3 3/8 in.
- Date
- 1930
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- Photograph : Paper ; Ht: 5 1/8 in. x W: 3 3/8 in.
- Other Title Information
- Documentary Artifact
- Date
- 1930
- Physical Condition
- Good
- Language
- Yiddish
- Notes
- b&w, portarit of a couple. Bayla Friedfer Zucker is sitting on a chair and behind her stands her husband, Fishke Zucker. Narrative: Bayla Friedfer Zucker, her husband Fishke Zucker and their two children were killed during the Holocaust. According to the donor, this photograph was sent to her around 1930.
- Accession No.
- 2011X.43.03
- Name Access
- Ravitch, Rochel
- Places
- Horochow, Poland , Europe
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
Images
Be??ec
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn47570
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- textual record
- Physical Description
- Booklet : printed, bound, photography, graphic arts : black, beige ; Ht: 22,6 cm x W: 15,4 cm
- Date
- 1946
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- textual record
- Physical Description
- Booklet : printed, bound, photography, graphic arts : black, beige ; Ht: 22,6 cm x W: 15,4 cm
- Other Title Information
- Documentary Artifact
- Date
- 1946
- Creator
- -
- Physical Condition
- Good
- Language
- Polish
- Notes
- 68 pages. Softcover, paper bound with staples. Cover is black, with title printed in beige at the top, and a drawing of 4 skulls and a bone on the lower right side; back cover is plain beige. Interior pages are beige with text divided into chapters and sub-sections. At the beginning of each chapter, the first character is decorative; b&w images and photographs are found throughout.
- Accession No.
- 1994.08.02
- Name Access
- Zylberberg, Izak
- Places
- Krakow, Poland, Europe
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
Images
Bela
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn90233
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- Photograph : Paper : Ink : b&w ; Ht: 7,7 cm x W: 4,6 cm
- Date
- September 28, 1934
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- Photograph : Paper : Ink : b&w ; Ht: 7,7 cm x W: 4,6 cm
- Other Title Information
- Documentary Artifact
- Date
- September 28, 1934
- Physical Condition
- fragile
- Language
- Polish
- Notes
- Ridged white border. Portrait of a young woman, Bela, wearing a beret with a circular pin on it, slightly smiling, and holding a telephone receiver to her right ear. Narrative: Bela was a friend of donor who immigrated to Palestine.
- Accession No.
- 1990.16.05
- Name Access
- Cohen, Pauline
- Places
- Poland ?, Europe ?
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
Images
Birth certificate
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn59348
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- textual record
- Physical Description
- Birth certificate : Ht: 15 cm x W: 20 cm
- Date
- 1929
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- textual record
- Physical Description
- Birth certificate : Ht: 15 cm x W: 20 cm
- Other Title Information
- Documentary Artifact
- Date
- 1929
- Physical Condition
- Good
- Language
- Polish
- Notes
- Birth certificate for Icek Cytrynbaum. born May 12, 1906, replacement copy issued December 5, 1929, Polish stamp, signed by president, two ink stamps of blue and red Narrative: Icek Cytrynbaum was born on 12 May 1906 in the Polish city of Bookechor (?). Esther Orenstein (Estera Laja Orenstejn) was born in 1905, and moved to Canada from Danzig in 1930 after a failed voyage in 1929 due to lacking the required vaccinations. Icek and Esther were married in 1924, approximately in February with the Gregorian calendar.
- Accession No.
- 2002.18.5
- Name Access
- Cytrynbaum, Stanley
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
Images
Birth certificate
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn59652
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- textual record
- Physical Description
- Birth certificate : Hand-written : ink : Brown, beige, black ; Ht: 32 cm x W: 20,5 cm
- Date
- May 22, 1933
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- textual record
- Physical Description
- Birth certificate : Hand-written : ink : Brown, beige, black ; Ht: 32 cm x W: 20,5 cm
- Other Title Information
- Documentary Artifact
- Date
- May 22, 1933
- Physical Condition
- Good
- Language
- German
- Notes
- Testimony of birth to substitute birth certificate. There is a pencil note scrawled on back. Confirms Avrum Rubner's place of birth and parents. Narrative: Avrum Rubner (Awrum Rabner) was born to Moishe and Eidly Rubner in Dobromyl, Poland on 22 December 1913. He had a brother named Chaija, and completed his apprenticeship at the Rudolph Karstadt company in the garment department as a salesman in March 1933. Afterwards he worked as a salesman. Refugee camp 42. By February 1959 he was living in Montreal and applying for a Canadian pension.
- Accession No.
- 1998.41.17
- Name Access
- Gal, Daniel
- Places
- Dobromyl, Poland, Europe
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
Images
Birth certificate
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn76220
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- textual record
- Physical Description
- Birth certificate : Paper : Typed : Ink : Beige, Black, Purple, Green, Red, White ; Ht: 13 1/4 in. x W: 8 1/4 in.
- Date
- August 22, 1908
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- textual record
- Physical Description
- Birth certificate : Paper : Typed : Ink : Beige, Black, Purple, Green, Red, White ; Ht: 13 1/4 in. x W: 8 1/4 in.
- Other Title Information
- Documentary Artifact
- Date
- August 22, 1908
- Physical Condition
- Poor
- Language
- German
- Notes
- 2 page, double-sided. Two green fiscal stamps with brown edging, value of 200 kronen each, affixed abreast at top right corner. A third green fiscal stamp with brown edging, value of 2 kronen, affixed at top left corner with a fourth identical one, value of 3 kronen, affixed directly underneath. Document is a birth certificate for Salomon Heiss. Narrative: Salomon Heiss was the father of the donor, Erika Bloom. The Heiss family fled Nazi-occupied Vienna in 1938, after Salomon was arrested and detained in Dachau for 3 days. They survived the war in Shanghai, immigrated to Israel in 1949, and eventually settled in Montreal.
- Accession No.
- 2002.41.03
- Name Access
- Bloom, Erika
- Places
- Stanis?awów, Poland, Europe
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
Images
Birth certificate
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn76793
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- textual record
- Physical Description
- Birth certificate : Paper ; Ht: 15 cm x W: 20 cm
- Date
- 1929
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- textual record
- Physical Description
- Birth certificate : Paper ; Ht: 15 cm x W: 20 cm
- Other Title Information
- Documentary Artifact
- Date
- 1929
- Physical Condition
- Good
- Language
- Polish
- Notes
- Birth certificate for Icek Cytrynbaum. born May 12, 1906, replacement copy issued December 5, 1929, Polish stamp, signed by president, two ink stamps of blue and red Narrative: Icek Cytrynbaum was the father of the donor. He was born on May 12, 1906 in Bodzechów, Poland. Esther Orenstein (Estera Laja Orensztajn), the donor's mother, was born in 1905 in Denków, Poland, and moved to Canada in 1930 after a failed voyage in 1929 due to lacking the required vaccinations. Icek and Esther were married in 1924. They both immigrated to Canada declaring that they were unmarried, and they remarried in Toronto in 1930.
- Accession No.
- 2002.18.05
- Name Access
- Cytrynbaum, Stanley
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
Images
Blanket
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn45483
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- object
- Physical Description
- Blanket : Sewn : Blue, Grey, Green ; Ht: 36 1/2 in. x W: 51 1/2 in.
- Date
- 1939-1945
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- object
- Physical Description
- Blanket : Sewn : Blue, Grey, Green ; Ht: 36 1/2 in. x W: 51 1/2 in.
- Other Title Information
- Bedding
- Date
- 1939-1945
- Physical Condition
- Good
- Notes
- Blanket consists of small square patches stitched together to form a large square blanket. Concentration camp blanket. Narrative: This blanket was issued to prisoner in a concentration camp, it was used by Sonia Aronowicz during a death march. Sonia Aronowicz was born in 1915 in Vilnius, Poland (today Lithuania). Her family had lived in Vilnius for many generations. She was married to a lawyer named Misha Aronowicz and studied to become an accountant. In 1941, after the Nazis invaded the region, Sonia and her family were sent to the Vilnius ghetto. The ghetto was liquidated in September 1943 and men and women were separated. This was the last time Sonia saw her husband Misha and her younger brother Ariye. Her parents went into hiding. Sonia was deported along with her friend, Miriam and Miriam’s sister-in-law, Minya. The three of them made a pact to always stay together. This gave them strength. Together they worked successively in the concentration camps of Riga-Kaiserwald and Riga-Strasdenhof in Latvia, and Stutthof and Bromberg-Ost (in Bydgoszcz), Poland. Their work was very demanding, they built rails for trains and hauled wood to build barracks. Sonia was then sent on a death march and was eventually liberated by Soviet soldiers in Pomorze, Poland.
- Accession No.
- 2011X.330.01
- Name Access
- Tencer, Naomi
- Places
- Poland, Europe
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
Images
Blanket
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn45627
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- object
- Physical Description
- Blanket : sewn, machine, quilted : yellow-beige
- Date
- [ca. 1945]
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- object
- Physical Description
- Blanket : sewn, machine, quilted : yellow-beige
- Other Title Information
- Bedding
- Date
- [ca. 1945]
- Physical Condition
- Good
- Notes
- Plain with parallel sitches of the same color as the fabric. Quilted blanket issued at Auschwitz concentration camp. Narrative: Marcus (Max) Appelboom was born in Amsterdam (Netherlands) in 1898. He was sent to Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in 1943 and from there to Auschwitz concentration camp. The blanket accompanied him from Auschwitz through several other places, including on a death march, and he brought it back to the Netherlands with him after liberation. He was a tailor and built up a successful business in Antwerp (Belgium) after the war. He died in 1963 in Antwerp.
- Accession No.
- 2000.04.01
- Name Access
- Lindeman, Yehudi
- Places
- Auschwitz, Poland, Europe
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
Images
Book
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn60048
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- textual record
- Physical Description
- Book : Bound : Blue, Gold, Beige, Black
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- textual record
- Physical Description
- Book : Bound : Blue, Gold, Beige, Black
- Other Title Information
- Documentary Artifact
- Creator
- -
- Physical Condition
- Good
- Language
- English
- Yiddish
- Hebrew
- Notes
- 183 pages, opens to the right. The cover has Hebrew letters in the upper right corner, and the spine two horizontal lines with Hebrew text on it. The inside cover has a line, and hexagon pattern covering it.
- Accession No.
- 2013X.07.02
- Places
- Poland (Europe)
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
Images
Book
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn60049
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- textual record
- Physical Description
- Book : Bound : Blue, Beige, Black, Gold
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- textual record
- Physical Description
- Book : Bound : Blue, Beige, Black, Gold
- Other Title Information
- Documentary Artifact
- Creator
- -
- Physical Condition
- Good
- Language
- English
- Yiddish
- Hebrew
- Notes
- 340 pages, opens to the right. There is Hebrew text in the upper left corner, as well as on the spine. The inside cover has a line, and hexagon pattern covering it.
- Accession No.
- 2013X.07.03
- Places
- Poland (Europe)
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
Images
Book clipping
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn59785
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- textual record
- Physical Description
- Book clipping : Paper : Printed : Ink : White, beige, black, navy ; Ht: 28 cm x W: 21 cm
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- textual record
- Physical Description
- Book clipping : Paper : Printed : Ink : White, beige, black, navy ; Ht: 28 cm x W: 21 cm
- Other Title Information
- Documentary Artifact
- Physical Condition
- Good
- Language
- Hebrew
- Notes
- Single-sided blank page with Long Life Light Ltd. letterhead printed across top. Two newspaper and book clippings taped to opposite side with typed descriptions. One of the three clippings listed has been removed. First remaining clipping shows an Eastern wall mural and the other is a Shavuot Machzor prayer printed in Piotrkow, Poland, during the Russian occupation. Narrative: Charles Kotkowsky was born in Piotrkow, Poland, in 1920. He was the son of a butcher, and had three siblings. He tried to immigrate to the USA as the Nazi persecution of Jews began, but he was unable to get the necessary documents in time. Meanwhile, he worked as a tailor in Lodz. The Germans entered Lodz on 1939/9/5 and had set up a ghetto by October. Charles worked in a glass factory, but eventually enlisted to avoid being used for forced labour. The Germans began rounding up Jews around Jewish holidays for labour or small transports for Auschwitz and Treblinka. At this time, he began receiving packages of letters and money from Ignac Samsonowicz, his old Yiddish teacher. The glass factory became a labour camp where Charles and his brother worked until they were sent to Czestochowa labour camp in November 1944. They made bullets in the factory there. The women in the glass factory were sent to Ravensbrück. Later Charles was sent to Buchenwald, where he and his friends were assigned easy jobs because their supervisor was a resistance sympathizer. Charles met Leon Blum before he was moved to Flossenburg. On their last transport train Charles and his brother jumped from the train along with many other Jews (some of which were shot in the attempt) and were sheltered in a Czechoslovakian town until the American army arrived. He moved to Italy where he worked as a translator, mostly in doctor's offices. He moved to Canada in 1951.He married Sally Blum, and they had two children, Pearl Levine and Rickie Cohen. Charles died from cancer on 2003/2/8 in Toronto, Canada.
- Accession No.
- 1998.7.25
- Name Access
- Kotkowsky, Charles
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
Images
Booklet
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn45463
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- textual record
- Physical Description
- Booklet : folded, glued, embroidered : purple, red, beige, black ; Ht: 2 in. x W: 2 1/2 in.
- Date
- December 12, 1944
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- textual record
- Physical Description
- Booklet : folded, glued, embroidered : purple, red, beige, black ; Ht: 2 in. x W: 2 1/2 in.
- Other Title Information
- Documentary Artifact
- Date
- December 12, 1944
- Physical Condition
- Good
- Notes
- Heart-shaped autograph book made of folded paper, with purple fabric cover embroidered with the letter F in red thread. Pages are glued together with glue made from bread starch. The booklet contains 8 folded paper pages with messages written by prisoners. There are 21 different messages inside the booklet including 2 which are not signed. 19 different names appear. 4 messages are dated 1944-12-12 and one is dated 1945-01-26. Narrative: Booklet was given to Fania Landau on her 20th birthday by 19 co-workers in the Union ammunition factory in Auschwitz. Made in secret with materials stolen or found in the camp, the heart brings together messages of hope and birthday wishes. It represents the solidarity between these women, but also their courage and strength to withstand their horrific situation. Again, at great peril, they also presented a “cake” to Fania, made of hidden bread and decorated with margarine, on December 12, 1944.
- Accession No.
- 2011X.55.01
- Name Access
- Fainer (Landau), Fania
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
Documents
Images
Booklet
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn59784
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- textual record
- Physical Description
- Booklet : Paper ; Ht: 5 7/8 in. x W: 4 1/2 in.
- Date
- 1982
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- textual record
- Physical Description
- Booklet : Paper ; Ht: 5 7/8 in. x W: 4 1/2 in.
- Other Title Information
- Advertising Medium
- Date
- 1982
- Physical Condition
- Good
- Language
- Polish
- Notes
- three panel fold-out booklet, color photo of Auschwitz main gate sign “ARBEIT MACHT FREI” on cover, maps of Auschwitz and Birkenau camps inside, Polish text inside
- Accession No.
- 2011X.192.18
- Name Access
- Kornfeld, Szidonia
- Places
- Warsaw, Poland, Europe
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
Boys swimming in a river
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn76528
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- Photograph : Cardstock : Printed, Handwritten : Ink : B&W ; Ht: 8,5 cm x W: 13,5 cm
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- Photograph : Cardstock : Printed, Handwritten : Ink : B&W ; Ht: 8,5 cm x W: 13,5 cm
- Other Title Information
- Documentary Artifact
- Physical Condition
- Good
- Language
- Yiddish
- Notes
- B&W, outdoors. Group photograph of young boys in a river, forest in background. Nearly all are bare-chested, wearing swimsuits. On right side is a fully clothed man standing in knee-deep water, wearing dark pants, a light shirt and a light turban. River bank is visible in foreground. Narrative: The donors parents were Meilach Magid and Yocheved Bejlach, both teachers. They came to Canada in 1921, returned to Poland, and then settled in Canada in 1924. Meilach graduated from McGill in 1929. He was the principal of United Talmud Torah School and later founded Herzliah High School in 1946.
- Accession No.
- 2014.19.27
- Name Access
- Clamen, Miriam
- Places
- Poland, Europe
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
Images
Bracelet
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn50265
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- object
- Physical Description
- Bracelet : embossed, carved : Brown ; Ht: 7,25 in. x W: 1 in.
- Date
- 1941-1945
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- object
- Physical Description
- Bracelet : embossed, carved : Brown ; Ht: 7,25 in. x W: 1 in.
- Other Title Information
- Adornment
- Date
- 1941-1945
- Physical Condition
- Good
- Notes
- Rectangluar, triangular pattern in middle, and buckle at one end. Narrative: This bracelet belonged to Kuba Lublinski, the brother of the donor. It was made in the Litzmannstadt (Lodz) ghetto by a friend. the bracelet was originally embossed and embroidered with red thread. The Lublinski brothers were deported to Auschwitz on 27 August 1944.
- Accession No.
- 1990.84.01
- Name Access
- Lublinski, Josef (Julek)
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
Images
Broken Monument honoring Jewish soldiers of WWI
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn45808
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- Photograph : Paper ; Ht: 4 3/4 in. x W: 6 5/8 in.
- Date
- [ca. 1945]
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- Photograph : Paper ; Ht: 4 3/4 in. x W: 6 5/8 in.
- Other Title Information
- Documentary Artifact
- Date
- [ca. 1945]
- Physical Condition
- Good
- Language
- Yiddish
- Notes
- b&w, large pieces of inscribed stone on the ground from broken monument.
- Accession No.
- 2001.01.11
- Name Access
- Schnurbach, Shirley
- Places
- Kutno, Poland, Europe
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
Images
Bund demonstration for workers' rights
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn78294
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- Photograph : Paper : printed : Ink : B&W ; Ht: 6,4 cm x W: 8,5 cm
- Date
- 1936
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- Photograph : Paper : printed : Ink : B&W ; Ht: 6,4 cm x W: 8,5 cm
- Other Title Information
- Documentary Artifact
- Date
- 1936
- Physical Condition
- Good
- Language
- Polish
- Notes
- B&W photograph with border. Outside. Probably taken during a march or demonstration. Group of people, men and women, are posing. Four women in the front row are wearing what appears to be a uniform, of white shirts with a black tie The woman in the center is holding a white sign demanding the right to work. The sign is signed "Bund".
- Accession No.
- 2015.09.02
- Name Access
- Edelstein, Saul
- Places
- Poland, Europe
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
Images
Bundist self-defense group on ruins of Warsaw Ghetto
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn51284
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- Photograph : Paper : Black, White ; Ht: 3,5 in. x W: 5,5 in.
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- Photograph : Paper : Black, White ; Ht: 3,5 in. x W: 5,5 in.
- Other Title Information
- Documentary Artifact
- Physical Condition
- Good
- Notes
- B&w with white border. Outdoors. Men and women in uniforms standing in clearing between rubble of Warsaw Ghetto. Group is there to unveil monument. Narrative: Bundist self-defense group called “Zukumft Sturm” (“future storm”) formed in 1946 after Kielce pogrom. Donor Avrum Feigenbaum can be seen in front row centre, thrid from the left.
- Accession No.
- 2011X.126.22
- Name Access
- Feigenbaum, Avrum
- Places
- Warsaw, Poland, Europe
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
Images
Bund leaders and members walking to ceremony commemorating victims of Nazis
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn45763
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- Photograph : Paper ; Ht: 2 1/2 in. x W: 3 3/8 in.
- Date
- 1946-1948
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- Photograph : Paper ; Ht: 2 1/2 in. x W: 3 3/8 in.
- Other Title Information
- Documentary Artifact
- Date
- 1946-1948
- Physical Condition
- Good
- Notes
- b&w, men walking on city street, automn, Israel Falk is the first man on the left. Narrative: Israel (Ignacy) Falk was born on 4 February 1904 in Warsaw, Poland. He was the son of a tailor and began to work for a living at age 14. He lacked formal education but secured a job as a bookkeeper in a print shop. Eventually he earned enough to support a wife and child. Shortly after deportations began in 1942 his parents, siblings, and their families had been taken to the Treblinka gas chambers. In September, Falk was put on a train to Treblinka, but was able to pull off the window bars and jump from the train. He returned to the ghetto. In March 1943 he arranged for his wife and 11-year-old son, Michael, to escape. They spent the remainder of the war hiding with a Polish friend. Falk remained in the ghetto to aid the resistance with smuggling in weapons and bomb supplies. On 19 April 1943, Falk and the remaining Jews made a stand when the SS came to deport them. They held off the Nazis for several weeks until the ghetto was torched. Falk was one of the few survivors. He was captured and sent to Budzyn. Four two years he endured four different concentration camps. The last was Schindler's Factory in Brunlitz in 1945. That same year Russian troops liberated the area and Falk was able to return to his family in France. They emigrated to Canada in 1949 on the SS Samaria. At some point after the war he remarried (as the result of the death or divorce of his first wife (?)). He was an activist in the Labour Movement. During the National Convention of the Labour Committee at the Chelsea Hotel, Atlantic City, NY, in 1947 Mr. Falk was one of the key speakers. He wasa strong speaker regarding the Holocaust, but he didn't talk about Schindler much until after watching 'Schindler's List' with his family. Israel died in Montreal on 13 December 1996.
- Accession No.
- 2011X.122.11
- Name Access
- Falk, Lilian
- Places
- Warsaw, Poland, Europe
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
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