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Certificate, birth
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn48279
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- textual record
- Physical Description
- Certificate, birth : paper : beige ; Ht: 10 cm x W: 21 cm
- Date
- October 02, 1964
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- textual record
- Physical Description
- Certificate, birth : paper : beige ; Ht: 10 cm x W: 21 cm
- Other Title Information
- Documentary Artifact
- Date
- October 02, 1964
- Physical Condition
- Good
- Language
- Polish
- Notes
- Certificate that attest the birth of Erzbieta (Elizabeth) Zilberbogen. Narrative: The Zilberbogen were a Jewish family originally from Warsaw (Poland). Mother Chana and daughters Elzbieta (born 1933) and Celinka (born 1937) moved to Belgium in 1939. The father, Szygmundt, an engineer, stayed in Poland. During the Second World War, the mother and daughters were first sent to a transit camp in the South of France before being released. Chana was then hospitalized and spent the war hidden in a Sanatorium in Mazamet. Elzbieta and Celinka were hidden in various locations in the South of France, including a farm and different children's homes run by OSE. Szygmundt was killed in Poland. Chana and her daughters went back to live in Belgium after Liberation until immigrating to Canada in 1951.
- Accession No.
- 2012.15.71
- Name Access
- Peltier, Cécile
- Places
- Warsaw, Poland, Europe
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
Images
Crime and Punishment (Translation)
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn47679
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- textual record
- Physical Description
- Book : printed, bound, embossed : green, beige, black ; Ht: 21,3 cm x W: 15,2 cm
- Date
- 1912
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- textual record
- Physical Description
- Book : printed, bound, embossed : green, beige, black ; Ht: 21,3 cm x W: 15,2 cm
- Other Title Information
- Documentary Artifact
- Date
- 1912
- Creator
- -
- Physical Condition
- Good
- Language
- Russian
- Yiddish
- Notes
- 369 pages. Hardcover, cardboard bound with string. Cover is textured green, with embossed detailing; no text found on the cover, but text found along the spine (needs translation). Interior pages are beige, with black text.
- Accession No.
- 2011X.41.27
- Name Access
- Orenstein, Benjamin
- Places
- Warsaw ?, Poland ?, Europe ?
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
Images
Daisies. Folk Songs Collection No. 3
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn59831
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- textual record
- Physical Description
- Sheet Music : Paper : Printed : Ink : Beige, black, grey ; Ht: 29 in. x W: 22,5 in.
- Date
- 1929-1939
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- textual record
- Physical Description
- Sheet Music : Paper : Printed : Ink : Beige, black, grey ; Ht: 29 in. x W: 22,5 in.
- Other Title Information
- Documentary Artifact
- Date
- 1929-1939
- Physical Condition
- Good
- Language
- Yiddish
- Notes
- Single page, double-sided, folded vertically down center, portrait of singer on cover, T.L, wearing a striped blouse, sheet music and lyrics on inside pages, catalogue on back cover. From the folk songs collection, volume 3.
- Accession No.
- 2000.66.4
- Name Access
- MHMC
- Places
- Warsaw, Poland, Europe
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
Images
Death certificate
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn48273
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- textual record
- Physical Description
- Death certificate : paper : beige ; Ht: 9,6 cm x W: 20,8 cm
- Date
- March 21, 1953
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- textual record
- Physical Description
- Death certificate : paper : beige ; Ht: 9,6 cm x W: 20,8 cm
- Other Title Information
- Documentary Artifact
- Date
- March 21, 1953
- Physical Condition
- Good
- Language
- Polish
- Notes
- Filled form that certifies Simon Zilberbogen's death. Two stamps on each side of certificate and three ink stamps Narrative: The Zilberbogen were a Jewish family originally from Warsaw (Poland). Mother Chana and daughters Elzbieta (born 1933) and Celinka (born 1937) moved to Belgium in 1939. The father, Szygmundt, an engineer, stayed in Poland. During the Second World War, the mother and daughters were first sent to a transit camp in the South of France before being released. Chana was then hospitalized and spent the war hidden in a Sanatorium in Mazamet. Elzbieta and Celinka were hidden in various locations in the South of France, including a farm and different children's homes run by OSE. Szygmundt was killed in Poland. Chana and her daughters went back to live in Belgium after Liberation until immigrating to Canada in 1951.
- Accession No.
- 2012.15.67
- Name Access
- Peltier, Cécile
- Places
- Warsaw, Poland, Europe
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
Images
Death certificate
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn48275
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- textual record
- Physical Description
- Death certificate : paper : beige ; Ht: 47,2 cm x W: 14,6 cm
- Date
- 1953
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- textual record
- Physical Description
- Death certificate : paper : beige ; Ht: 47,2 cm x W: 14,6 cm
- Other Title Information
- Documentary Artifact
- Date
- 1953
- Physical Condition
- Good
- Language
- Polish
- Notes
- Four stamps on back with OPLATA SKARBOWA written on them. Filled form document that certifies death of Simon Zilberbogen. Narrative: The Zilberbogen were a Jewish family originally from Warsaw (Poland). Mother Chana and daughters Elzbieta (born 1933) and Celinka (born 1937) moved to Belgium in 1939. The father, Szygmundt, an engineer, stayed in Poland. During the Second World War, the mother and daughters were first sent to a transit camp in the South of France before being released. Chana was then hospitalized and spent the war hidden in a Sanatorium in Mazamet. Elzbieta and Celinka were hidden in various locations in the South of France, including a farm and different children's homes run by OSE. Szygmundt was killed in Poland. Chana and her daughters went back to live in Belgium after Liberation until immigrating to Canada in 1951.
- Accession No.
- 2012.15.69
- Name Access
- Peltier, Cécile
- Places
- Warsaw, Poland, Europe
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
Images
Death certificate
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn48368
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- textual record
- Physical Description
- Death certificate : paper : beige ; Ht: 30,7 cm x W: 21,1 cm
- Date
- February 28, 1953
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- textual record
- Physical Description
- Death certificate : paper : beige ; Ht: 30,7 cm x W: 21,1 cm
- Other Title Information
- Documentary Artifact
- Date
- February 28, 1953
- Physical Condition
- Poor
- Language
- Polish
- Notes
- Filled form that certifies the death of Simon Zilberbogen. Narrative: The Zilberbogen were a Jewish family originally from Warsaw (Poland). Mother Chana and daughters Elzbieta (born 1933) and Celinka (born 1937) moved to Belgium in 1939. The father, Szygmundt, an engineer, stayed in Poland. During the Second World War, the mother and daughters were first sent to a transit camp in the South of France before being released. Chana was then hospitalized and spent the war hidden in a Sanatorium in Mazamet. Elzbieta and Celinka were hidden in various locations in the South of France, including a farm and different children's homes run by OSE. Szygmundt was killed in Poland. Chana and her daughters went back to live in Belgium after Liberation until immigrating to Canada in 1951.
- Accession No.
- 2012.15.68
- Name Access
- Peltier, Cécile
- Places
- Warsaw, Poland, Europe
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
Images
Death Stalks the Streets
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn76178
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- Print : paper : woodcut : ink : b&w ; Ht: 13 in. x W: 9 1/4 in.
- Date
- [ca. 1954-1956]
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- Print : paper : woodcut : ink : b&w ; Ht: 13 in. x W: 9 1/4 in.
- Other Title Information
- Original Art, Work on Paper
- Date
- [ca. 1954-1956]
- Creator
- Mrozewski, Stefan
- Physical Condition
- Excellent
- Notes
- Black ink on white paper. Outdoor scene. Two men carry a body towards a cart loaded with corpses. On right, a woman cries and holds her head in her hands. Two young girls cling to her. Another naked corpse lies in foreground. In the background one can see buildings, onlookers and other figures, and the ghetto walls. Print makes reference to high number of people dying in the ghetto because of malnutrition, forced labour and epidemics. Narrative: All 16 of the prints in this series depict life of Jews in the Warsaw Ghetto during the Holocaust. Printmaker, book illustrator and painter, Stefan Mrozewski was born in Czéstochowa, Poland. Mrozewski's prints are in permament collections of several public art collections in Europe and North America. The artist was married to Irena Blizinska. An ardent patriot, he was a volunteer in the Polish Army in the war against the Soviet Union in 1920, as well as during the Second World War when he served in Armia Krajowa, the clandestine Polish Home Army.
- Accession No.
- 2000.69.11
- Name Access
- Hornstein, Michael
- Places
- Warsaw, Poland, Europe
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
Images
Desperation and Death
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn76181
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- Print : paper : woodcut : ink : b&w ; Ht: 13 in. x W: 9 1/4 in.
- Date
- [ca. 1954-1956]
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- Print : paper : woodcut : ink : b&w ; Ht: 13 in. x W: 9 1/4 in.
- Other Title Information
- Original Art, Work on Paper
- Date
- [ca. 1954-1956]
- Creator
- Mrozewski, Stefan
- Physical Condition
- Excellent
- Notes
- Black ink on white paper. Outdoor scene depicting confrontation between German soldiers and ghetto resistance fighters. In the foreground two men are being killed by a German soldier pointing a flame-thrower at them. In the background one can see a tank and ghetto buildings on fire. The print makes reference to Warsaw Ghetto Uprising of April and May, 1943. Narrative: All 16 of the prints in this series depict life of Jews in the Warsaw Ghetto during the Holocaust. Printmaker, book illustrator and painter, Stefan Mrozewski was born in Czéstochowa, Poland. Mrozewski's prints are in permament collections of several public art collections in Europe and North America. The artist was married to Irena Blizinska. An ardent patriot, he was a volunteer in the Polish Army in the war against the Soviet Union in 1920, as well as during the Second World War when he served in Armia Krajowa, the clandestine Polish Home Army.
- Accession No.
- 2000.69.14
- Name Access
- Hornstein, Michael
- Places
- Warsaw, Poland, Europe
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
Images
Die Yidishe Geshichte ?
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn47555
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- textual record
- Physical Description
- Book : printed, bound : brown, beige, black ; Ht: 20,4 cm x W: 13,7 cm
- Date
- [ca. 1910]
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- textual record
- Physical Description
- Book : printed, bound : brown, beige, black ; Ht: 20,4 cm x W: 13,7 cm
- Other Title Information
- Documentary Artifact
- Date
- [ca. 1910]
- Creator
- -
- Physical Condition
- Good
- Language
- Yiddish
- Notes
- 135 pages. Hardcover, cardboard bound with fabric tape along the spine. Cover is a brown and beige woven pattern with dark grey on the spine. There is no title printed on the covers or spine. Interior pages are brown with black text.
- Accession No.
- 1997.07.01
- Name Access
- Izso, Ilana
- Places
- Warsaw ?, Poland ?, Europe ?
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
Images
Doll
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn50189
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- object
- Physical Description
- Doll : Ht: 13 in. x W: 7 in.
- Date
- 1940-1943
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- object
- Physical Description
- Doll : Ht: 13 in. x W: 7 in.
- Other Title Information
- Toy
- Date
- 1940-1943
- Physical Condition
- Good
- Notes
- Baby doll with articulated limbs attached to the body by elastic thread. Details for hair are carved on the head. Eyes are painted in blue and white, mouth is painted pink. Nose is missing a piece. Red paint or nail polish on the nails and lips. Narrative: Thea Borczuk (now Slawner) is the daughter of Leon Borczuk (b. 1906-02-22) and Anna Blimbaum Borczuk (b. 1910-11-16). Thea was born on May 7, 1939 in Warsaw, Poland. Leon worked as a foreman in a shoe factory in Gdansk, and Anna was employed as a bookkeeper. Thea entered the Warsaw ghetto as an infant. This doll was her only toy and most precious possession while living in the ghetto. The doll had been found by Thea’s father in an abandonned apartment in their building. The Borczuk family remained in the ghetto until the ghetto's liquidation in 1943. A few days before the ghetto uprising, Anna left with her labor detail but did not return in the evening. The following day, another woman brought Thea with her to work. After leaving the ghetto, Thea found her mother, who had assumed a new Christian identity. Thea spent the rest of the war with her mother in Lublin under the false names of Antonia and Teresa Kwasniewska. Leon, who had remained in the ghetto, was sent on a deportation train to Treblinka. He managed, however, to jump from the train. He survived the war hidden in the woods and later in an underground bunker. Leon and Anna were able to maintain intermittent contact by writing to one other at a prearranged address. Thea was liberated in Lublin at the age of five and a half. She and Anna returned to Warsaw following Liberation and reunited with Leon. Thea could only recognize her father by his moustache. Thea started school in Warsaw before leaving with her parents for France. In 1950, the family sailed from Le Havre, France to Canada and settled in Montreal. Though Thea and her parents survived, her grandparents, Abram Blimbaum and Brandla Fajerstejn Blimbaum were both killed in Treblinka. In Montreal, Thea’s own children played with the doll and painted its nails and lips with red nail polish.
- Accession No.
- 2011X.81.01
- Name Access
- Borczuk Slawner, Thea
- Places
- Warsaw, Poland, Europe
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
Images
Dos Tog Buch fun David Rubinowicz
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn47521
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- textual record
- Physical Description
- Book : printed, bound, photography : beige, black, green, red ; Ht: 20,6 cm x W: 15 cm
- Date
- 1960
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- textual record
- Physical Description
- Book : printed, bound, photography : beige, black, green, red ; Ht: 20,6 cm x W: 15 cm
- Other Title Information
- Documentary Artifact
- Date
- 1960
- Creator
- -
- Physical Condition
- Good
- Language
- Yiddish
- Polish
- Notes
- 136 pages printed book, bound with paper and staples. There is a dustjacket over the cover, beige with the title printed in black block text at the top and green hand-written text throughout the front and back cover; there is a red horizontal line printed about 3/4 down and going 3/4 across the front cover. The cover of the book is plain beige, with a red stamp on the bottom left corner (see inscriptions). The interior pages are beige with black text, photographs and photo-copied documents. Narrative: These memoirs describe the persecution of the Jewish people during World War II. The diary was written in school notebooks between March 1940 and June 1942. They show how Dawida's childhood was interrupted by the German occupation and the increasing persecution they faced. His notebooks were found after the war and have been published in many languages – the Polish edition was published in 1960 and 1987.
- Accession No.
- 1998.51.01
- Name Access
- Koper, Joseph
- Places
- Warsaw, Poland, Europe
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
Images
Dymy Nad Birkenau
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn45727
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- textual record
- Physical Description
- Book : Ht: 21,6 cm x W: 15,7 cm
- Date
- 1945
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- textual record
- Physical Description
- Book : Ht: 21,6 cm x W: 15,7 cm
- Other Title Information
- Documentary Artifact
- Date
- 1945
- Creator
- Szmaglewska, Seweryna
- Physical Condition
- Poor
- Language
- Polish
- Notes
- 301 pages book with cardstock cover, pages printed in black. Cover design in green and blue shows a few concentration camp barracks with smoke coming out of the chimneys. Narrative: Seweryna Szmaglewska also testified at the Nuremberg trial.
- Accession No.
- 2011.52.04
- Places
- Warsaw, Poland (Europe)
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
Elzbieta (Elizabeth) Zilberbogen
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn48228
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- Photograph : paper : b&w ; Ht: 8,4 cm x W: 6 cm
- Date
- [Later than 1934]
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- Photograph : paper : b&w ; Ht: 8,4 cm x W: 6 cm
- Other Title Information
- Documentary Artifact
- Date
- [Later than 1934]
- Physical Condition
- Good
- Notes
- White border with deckled edges.. Outdoor scene of Elzbieta (Elizabeth) Zilberbogen walking in the street. In the background a few person and a stroller. Elzbieta (Elizabeth) Zilberbogen is wearing a winter coat with two big buttons and white hat. Narrative: The Zilberbogen were a Jewish family originally from Warsaw (Poland). Mother Chana and daughters Elzbieta (born 1933) and Celinka (born 1937) moved to Belgium in 1939. The father, Szygmundt, an engineer, stayed in Poland. During the Second World War, the mother and daughters were first sent to a transit camp in the South of France before being released. Chana was then hospitalized and spent the war hidden in a Sanatorium in Mazamet. Elzbieta and Celinka were hidden in various locations in the South of France, including a farm and different children's homes run by OSE. Szygmundt was killed in Poland. Chana and her daughters went back to live in Belgium after Liberation until immigrating to Canada in 1951.
- Accession No.
- 2012.15.04
- Name Access
- Peltier, Cécile
- Places
- Warsaw, Poland, Europe
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
Images
Elzbieta (Elizabeth) Zilberbogen
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn48229
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- Photograph : paper : b&w ; Ht: 12,5 cm x W: 9,7 cm
- Date
- August 02, 1934
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- Photograph : paper : b&w ; Ht: 12,5 cm x W: 9,7 cm
- Other Title Information
- Documentary Artifact
- Date
- August 02, 1934
- Physical Condition
- Good
- Language
- Polish
- Notes
- White border. Outdoor portrait of Elzbieta (Elizabeth) Zilberbogen. Elzbieta (Elizabeth) Zilberbogen holds a baby doll in her arms. She is wearing a patterned summer dress, dark shoes with white socks and a bow in her hair. A few people and trees in background. Narrative: The Zilberbogen were a Jewish family originally from Warsaw (Poland). Mother Chana and daughters Elzbieta (born 1933) and Celinka (born 1937) moved to Belgium in 1939. The father, Szygmundt, an engineer, stayed in Poland. During the Second World War, the mother and daughters were first sent to a transit camp in the South of France before being released. Chana was then hospitalized and spent the war hidden in a Sanatorium in Mazamet. Elzbieta and Celinka were hidden in various locations in the South of France, including a farm and different children's homes run by OSE. Szygmundt was killed in Poland. Chana and her daughters went back to live in Belgium after Liberation until immigrating to Canada in 1951.
- Accession No.
- 2012.15.05
- Name Access
- Peltier, Cécile
- Places
- Warsaw, Poland, Europe
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
Images
Entrance to the Ghetto
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn45482
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- Print : paper : woodcut : ink : black, white ; Ht: 13 in. x W: 9 1/4 in.
- Date
- [ca. 1954-1956]
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- Print : paper : woodcut : ink : black, white ; Ht: 13 in. x W: 9 1/4 in.
- Other Title Information
- Original Art, Work on Paper
- Date
- [ca. 1954-1956]
- Creator
- -
- Physical Condition
- Excellent
- Notes
- Print depicts an outdoor scene at the entrance of the Warsaw ghetto. In the foreground is an open gate with barbed wire on either side. A Jewish man wearing a Star of David is showing a German soldier a paper. A line of people stretches out behind him. In the background one can see the buildings of the ghetto. Narrative: All 16 of the prints in this series deal with life in the Warsaw ghetto during World War II. This print refers to work permits issued to Jews working outside of the ghetto and to the checkpoints.
- Accession No.
- 2000.69.02
- Name Access
- Hornstein, Michael
- Places
- Warsaw, Poland, Europe
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
Images
Envelope
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn59357
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- textual record
- Physical Description
- Envelope : Paper : Printed : Ink : Beige, black, grey
- Date
- January 25, 1937
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- textual record
- Physical Description
- Envelope : Paper : Printed : Ink : Beige, black, grey
- Other Title Information
- Documentary Artifact
- Date
- January 25, 1937
- Physical Condition
- Good
- Language
- Hebrew
- Polish
- Notes
- Envelope from Keren Kayemeth L’Israel organization. Keren Kayemeth L’Israel letterhead on top of envelope, black 5 cent polish stamp, for L. Kligier
- Accession No.
- 2011X.58.295
- Name Access
- MHMC
- Places
- Warsaw, Poland, Europe
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
Images
Establishment of the Ghetto
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn75270
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- Print : paper : woodcut : ink : b&w ; Ht: 13 in. x W: 9 1/4 in.
- Date
- [ca. 1954-1956]
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- Print : paper : woodcut : ink : b&w ; Ht: 13 in. x W: 9 1/4 in.
- Other Title Information
- Original Art, Work on Paper
- Date
- [ca. 1954-1956]
- Creator
- Mrozewski. Stefan
- Physical Condition
- Excellent
- Notes
- Black ink on white paper. Indoor scene. In the centre of the image, a man is sitting behind a desk; next to him is seated a German SS officer in uniform reading from a piece of paper. They are surrounded by men, standing and listening. Man in the foreground is wearing an armband with a Star of David. The scene makes reference to the creation of the Warsaw ghetto in October 1940. Narrative: All 16 of the prints in this series depict life of Jews in the Warsaw Ghetto during the Holocaust. Printmaker, book illustrator and painter, Stefan Mrozewski was born in Czéstochowa, Poland. Mrozewski's prints are in permament collections of several public art collections in Europe and North America. The artist was married to Irena Blizinska. An ardent patriot, he was a volunteer in the Polish Army in the war against the Soviet Union in 1920, as well as during the Second World War when he served in Armia Krajowa, the clandestine Polish Home Army.
- Accession No.
- 2000.69.01
- Name Access
- Hornstein, Michael
- Places
- Warsaw, Poland, Europe
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
Images
Evening Courses for Workers in Yiddish
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn90231
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- Photograph : Paper : Printed : Ink : b&w ; Ht: 23,6 cm x W: 34 cm
- Date
- 1917
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- Photograph : Paper : Printed : Ink : b&w ; Ht: 23,6 cm x W: 34 cm
- Other Title Information
- Documentary Artifact
- Date
- 1917
- Physical Condition
- Poor
- Language
- Yiddish
- Notes
- Outdoors. Group portrait glued on grey cardbard frame. The photo shows a group of over 50 men and women seated (some standing) in front of a building. Two women hold a white sign with text in Yiddish and the date 1917 in front of the group. The numbers 38 and 39 are visible on the building behind the group. Depicts a group of workers at evening Yiddish course in Warsaw. The teachers were Yitzchak Lew, Joseph Lew and Pata Lew. Narrative: Teachers were relatives of the donor.
- Accession No.
- 1990.16.55
- Name Access
- Cohen, Pauline
- Places
- Warsaw, Poland, Europe
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
Images
Falk family and friends
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn45762
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- Photograph : Paper ; Ht: 3 1/2 in. x W: 5 1/2 in.
- Date
- 1946
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- Photograph : Paper ; Ht: 3 1/2 in. x W: 5 1/2 in.
- Other Title Information
- Documentary Artifact
- Date
- 1946
- Physical Condition
- Good
- Notes
- b&w, portrait from left to right, top: Israel Falk, his wife Leona (Leah) Falk; L-R bottom: Rutka Grynszpan, Mrs. Buksowa, Michael Falk (Israel and Leons's son, 14 years old at the time). 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.122.10
- Name Access
- Falk, Lilian
- Places
- Warsaw, Poland, Europe
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
Images
Father and baby son
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- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- Photograph : Paper : photograph : b&w ; Ht: 8,6 cm x W: 6,6 cm
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- Photograph : Paper : photograph : b&w ; Ht: 8,6 cm x W: 6,6 cm
- Other Title Information
- Documentary Artifact
- Physical Condition
- Good
- Notes
- White ridged border. Outdoors. A man stands, holding a baby in his arms. The baby looks at the camera, the man does not. This is Symek Bialer and his baby son. Narrative: Both Symek Bialer and his son died during the Holocaust. It is not known where.
- Accession No.
- 1990.16.01
- Name Access
- Cohen, Pauline
- Places
- Warsaw, Poland, Europe
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
Images
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