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Letter

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Collection
Montreal Holocaust Museum
Description Level
Item
Material Type
textual record
Physical Description
Letter : paper : blue ; Ht: 18,9 cm x W: 14,6 cm
Date
August 05, 1946
Collection
Montreal Holocaust Museum
Description Level
Item
Material Type
textual record
Physical Description
Letter : paper : blue ; Ht: 18,9 cm x W: 14,6 cm
Other Title Information
Documentary Artifact
Date
August 05, 1946
Physical Condition
Good
Language
French
Notes
One page on blue paper. Double-sided. Personal letter from Elzbieta (Elizabeth) to mother Chana (Anna) Zilberbogen (born Wartens). Handwritten in blue ink. Tells mother she has arrived at Aix-les-Bains but doesn’t like it as much as Andrésy where Celinka (Cécile), her sister, stayed. She also says she is starting English courses and gives her mother her new address. 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 Brens camp and then to Rivesaltes camp in the South of France before being released. Chana was then hospitalized and spent the war hidden in a Sanatorium in Mazamet from 1940 to 1947. Elzbieta and Celinka were hidden in various locations in the South of France, including a farm and different children's homes run by OSE including one in Palavas-les-Flots. 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.
2012.15.146
Name Access
Peltier, Cécile
Places
Aix-les-Bains, France, Europe
Archival / Genealogical
Archival Descriptions
Repository
Montreal Holocaust Museum
Images
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