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https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn59788
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- Montreal Holocaust Museum
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- textual record
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- Certificate : Paper : Typewritten : Ink : Beige, black, grey ; Ht: 8,5 cm x W: 20,5 cm
- Date
- April 22, 1943
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- textual record
- Physical Description
- Certificate : Paper : Typewritten : Ink : Beige, black, grey ; Ht: 8,5 cm x W: 20,5 cm
- Other Title Information
- Documentary Artifact
- Date
- April 22, 1943
- Physical Condition
- Good
- Language
- English
- Notes
- Slip of paper creased vertically, form typed on front with handwritten details. Form indicates that David Kropveld was a Displaced Person from Holland, and had been captured/deported on 1943/4/22 as a Political Prisoner Narrative: David Kropveld was born on 1918/1/3 in Amsterdam, Holland. He was the third child of Samuel Kropveld (1884/3/?) and Goedge Van Cleef (1894). His father had studied to be a doctor before he was enlisted in 1916. His mother was a nursery school teacher until her marriage. As a boy he participated in Boy Scouts, acrobatic and boxing training. He studied at a commercial college, and opened a silver, gold, and diamond business during the Great Depression. In 1936 he was chosen to represent Holland as a boxer in the Olympics, but he chose not to go. He trained as a naval officer, and was prepared to attend university when the Germans occupied Holland in May 1940. In July, David and his father joined the White Brigade resistance group in the south of France. As members, David and his father gave up their Jewish identities and were responsible for taking children to safe houses and participating in armed attacks on German convoys. During this time David used the alibis Charles Seegers and Dan Daladien. In October 1942, David was arrested while smuggling war-related information between occupied and Vichy France. He was tortured for ten days before escaping with the aid of two men from the resistance. He was reunited with his father in Brussels, but the two were arrested by Gestapo officers one week later. They were incarcerated for three months and deported to Auschwitz where they were considered political prisoners and were selected for the slave labor camp at Monowitz Camp. They remained there for 5 days prior to being transferred to Treblinka Camp. In Treblinka, David witnessed his father’s murder at the hands of a guard. During this time Goedge had been sent to Sobibor where she was gassed and cremated on 1943/5/7. In the fall of 1944, a guard recognized David as a boxer he admired and had him transferred back to Auschwitz and on to Monowitz in December 1944 to compete in boxing matches against other prisoners. The rest of David’s family was killed during the war. Of his siblings Gretha (1914) died of hunger in Malapane, Poland with her husband in September 1942, Hartog (1916) was injured as a sergeant in the army and executed after his capture on 1943/6/30, Rosette (June 1922) was gassed in Sobibor on 1943/7/23 while pregnant, and Israel (March 1924) was beaten to death during a protest on a transport bound for Buchenwald. In December 1944, David managed to escape the death march with a few other prisoners. He was rescued shortly after and brought to a hospital until his health improved, although he never fully recovered and spent most of his life physically handicapped. In the summer of 1945, David met his wife, Annie Cohen. They had two sons, Mike and Phillip Kropveld. In 1947, the couple immigrated to Cuba, and then, in 1950, to Montreal, Canada, where David began a successful career as a butcher. He died in Montreal on 2008/11/26 at the age of 91.
- Accession No.
- 1990.83.4
- Name Access
- Kropveld, David
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
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- Montreal Holocaust Museum
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Certificate
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn59789
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- textual record
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- Certificate : Paper : Typewritten : Ink : Beige, black, blue ; Ht: 14 cm x W: 20 cm
- Date
- July 21, 1945
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- textual record
- Physical Description
- Certificate : Paper : Typewritten : Ink : Beige, black, blue ; Ht: 14 cm x W: 20 cm
- Other Title Information
- Documentary Artifact
- Date
- July 21, 1945
- Physical Condition
- Good
- Language
- Dutch
- Notes
- Page creased horizontally and vertically, Dutch Militair Repatrieering Commissaris letterhead, stamped. Form grants permission for David Kropveld to travel to Amsterdam in July 1945. Narrative: David Kropveld was born on 1918/1/3 in Amsterdam, Holland. He was the third child of Samuel Kropveld (1884/3/?) and Goedge Van Cleef (1894). His father had studied to be a doctor before he was enlisted in 1916. His mother was a nursery school teacher until her marriage. As a boy he participated in Boy Scouts, acrobatic and boxing training. He studied at a commercial college, and opened a silver, gold, and diamond business during the Great Depression. In 1936 he was chosen to represent Holland as a boxer in the Olympics, but he chose not to go. He trained as a naval officer, and was prepared to attend university when the Germans occupied Holland in May 1940. In July, David and his father joined the White Brigade resistance group in the south of France. As members, David and his father gave up their Jewish identities and were responsible for taking children to safe houses and participating in armed attacks on German convoys. During this time David used the alibis Charles Seegers and Dan Daladien. In October 1942, David was arrested while smuggling war-related information between occupied and Vichy France. He was tortured for ten days before escaping with the aid of two men from the resistance. He was reunited with his father in Brussels, but the two were arrested by Gestapo officers one week later. They were incarcerated for three months and deported to Auschwitz where they were considered political prisoners and were selected for the slave labor camp at Monowitz Camp. They remained there for 5 days prior to being transferred to Treblinka Camp. In Treblinka, David witnessed his father’s murder at the hands of a guard. During this time Goedge had been sent to Sobibor where she was gassed and cremated on 1943/5/7. In the fall of 1944, a guard recognized David as a boxer he admired and had him transferred back to Auschwitz and on to Monowitz in December 1944 to compete in boxing matches against other prisoners. The rest of David’s family was killed during the war. Of his siblings Gretha (1914) died of hunger in Malapane, Poland with her husband in September 1942, Hartog (1916) was injured as a sergeant in the army and executed after his capture on 1943/6/30, Rosette (June 1922) was gassed in Sobibor on 1943/7/23 while pregnant, and Israel (March 1924) was beaten to death during a protest on a transport bound for Buchenwald. In December 1944, David managed to escape the death march with a few other prisoners. He was rescued shortly after and brought to a hospital until his health improved, although he never fully recovered and spent most of his life physically handicapped. In the summer of 1945, David met his wife, Annie Cohen. They had two sons, Mike and Phillip Kropveld. In 1947, the couple immigrated to Cuba, and then, in 1950, to Montreal, Canada, where David began a successful career as a butcher. He died in Montreal on 2008/11/26 at the age of 91.
- Accession No.
- 1990.83.5
- Name Access
- Kropveld, David
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
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Identification card
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn48386
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- textual record
- Physical Description
- Identification card : Paper : pin, black ; Ht: 4,25 in. x W: 3 in.
- Date
- August 29, 1941
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- textual record
- Physical Description
- Identification card : Paper : pin, black ; Ht: 4,25 in. x W: 3 in.
- Other Title Information
- Documentary Artifact
- Date
- August 29, 1941
- Physical Condition
- Excellent
- Language
- Dutch
- German
- Notes
- Three-fold paper card for Samuel Schryver with identity photograph and stamped with "J". Card holder exempts the card holder from labour.
- Accession No.
- 2011X.20.01
- Name Access
- Schryver, Samuel
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
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Identification card
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn50267
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- textual record
- Physical Description
- Identification card : Paper : Black, White, Red ; Ht: 4 in. x W: 3 in.
- Date
- August 27, 1941
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- textual record
- Physical Description
- Identification card : Paper : Black, White, Red ; Ht: 4 in. x W: 3 in.
- Other Title Information
- Documentary Artifact
- Date
- August 27, 1941
- Physical Condition
- Good
- Language
- Dutch
- Notes
- Two sided, with two vertical folds. The front has a photograph of David Kropveld, as well as three stamps, one is a circular stamp with the Coat of arms of the republic of the United Netherlands in the middle. The back has two finger prints, as well as one circular stamp with the Coat of Arms of the Republic of the United Netherlands in the middle. Narrative: Identification Card used by David Kropveld while in Holland. David Kropveld was born on January 3, 1918, in Amsterdam, Holland. In July 1940, David and his father joined the White Brigade resistence group in the south of France. As members of the White Brigade, David and his father gave up their Jewish identities. In October 1942, David was arrested while smuggling war-related information between occupied and Vichy France. He was tortured for ten days before being released. He was reunited with his father in Brussels, but the two were arrested by Gestapo officers one week later. They were incarcerated for three months and deported to Auschwitz concentration camp (Poland). Father and son wore the badges of political prisoners and were selected for the slave labour camp of Monowitz, where they stayed for about five days prior to being transferred to camp of Treblinka (Poland). In Treblinka, David witnessed his father’s murder at the hands of a guard. In the fall of 1944, a guard recognized David as a boxer he had admired and had him transferred back to Auschwitz and Monowitz in December 1944 to compete boxing matches against other prisoners. In December 1944, David managed to escape the death march with a few other prisoners. He was rescued shortly after and brought to a hospital until his health improved. No members of his family survived the war.
- Accession No.
- 1990.83.9
- Name Access
- Kropveld, David
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
Images
Identification card
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn76175
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- textual record
- Physical Description
- Identification card : Cardboard : Printed, Handwritten : Ink : Beige, Black, Green
- Date
- 1946
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- textual record
- Physical Description
- Identification card : Cardboard : Printed, Handwritten : Ink : Beige, Black, Green
- Other Title Information
- Documentary Artifact
- Date
- 1946
- Physical Condition
- Good
- Language
- English
- Notes
- 1 page, double-sided. Document is a Displaced Persons index card for Judith Winkler, issued by the Allied Expeditionary Force. It is numbered G 11228281. 'NOT A PASS' written across the card on the diagonal. Holder's name is written in blue ink, and her signature appears below it in pencil. On verso, printed text advises holder to keep card at all times "to assist your safe return home". Narrative: Judith Winkler was born in Hungary. She was deported to Auschwitz on July 9, 1944 and was liberated on May 14, 1945 in Dachau. After the war she lived in the Bergen-Belsen Displaced Persons Camp until her brother found her and took her to Ainring Displaced Persons Camp. He was living there with Mendel Berlach; both men had survived a death march together. Judith and Mendel married in March 1947.
- Accession No.
- 1999.28.06
- Name Access
- Berlach, Judith
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
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Maandblad: Gewijd aan het Bezoek van HKH Prinses Juliana aan de Joodsche Invalide
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn76578
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- Montreal Holocaust Museum
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- Item
- Material Type
- textual record
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- Magazine : Paper : Printed : Ink : black, orange, beige ; Ht: 11,5 in. x W: 9 in.
- Date
- September 1938
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- textual record
- Physical Description
- Magazine : Paper : Printed : Ink : black, orange, beige ; Ht: 11,5 in. x W: 9 in.
- Other Title Information
- Documentary Artifact
- Date
- September 1938
- Creator
- Vlaanderen, André
- Physical Condition
- Good
- Language
- Dutch
- Notes
- Monthly magazine. Issue dedicated to the visit of HRH Princess Juliana at the Jewish Hospital. Front page has is illustrated with an hospital shone on by a sun with the Royal monogram of princess Juliana (letter J surmounted by a crown). The central illustration is surrounded by oranges and leaves. On top right of the page is a symbol with Star of David flanked by a "J" and an "I' with, in the centre of the star, a crown and three "x" under it. On the top left side is the coat of arm of the Royal family of the Netherlands with the motto "Je maintiendrai" (=I will maintain). Narrative: The Jewish Hospital (also The Jewish Invalids) was an institution for nursing Jewish elderly and disabled in Amsterdam. The association was founded in 1911. A new building on Weesperplein was inaugurated on September 19, 1937, and was nicknamed the Glass Palace. It was in use until March 1, 1943, when 256 people (patients and staff) were deported. Only a few people managed to escape. A large part of the deportees was murdered in Sobibor on March 13, 1943. The vacant building was occupied by the city of Amsterdam as a hospital.
- Accession No.
- 2011X.19.1
- Name Access
- MHMC
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
Images
Residence certificate
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn90443
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- textual record
- Physical Description
- Residence certificate : Cardstock : printed, typed : Ink : beige, black, blue ; Ht: 4 1/8 in. x W: 3 7/8 in.
- Date
- April 7, 1941
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- textual record
- Physical Description
- Residence certificate : Cardstock : printed, typed : Ink : beige, black, blue ; Ht: 4 1/8 in. x W: 3 7/8 in.
- Other Title Information
- Documentary Artifact
- Date
- April 7, 1941
- Physical Condition
- Good
- Language
- Dutch
- Notes
- 1 page. Two-sided certificate printed and filled-in with a typewriter. On the recto, on t.c., the outlines of a blue Star of David on the center front page. The document gives information on Ilse van Collem's residence in Amsterdam. Narrative: The donor, Ilse Zilversmit, née van Collem, was born on 1926-09-26 in Amsterdam. Her father was a co-owner of a cosmetic business and a factory manager and her mother was a housewife. Ilse's family lived in a large house outside the Jewish quarter, where they received German Jewish refugees fleeing Nazism, after Hitler’s election in 1933. Ilse attended the same Jewish school as Anne Frank and became friends with Anne’s older sister, Margot. As anti-Jewish measures were gradually imposed in Amsterdam after the German invasion in 1940-05, Ilse was forced to pursue her education at home. On 1943-06-20, during one of the last great raids of Amsterdam, she was deported to the Westerbork transit camp. Ilse was detained for eight months at Westerbork transit camp where she worked on the farm and in the laundry. The van Collem family was then transferred to the concentration camp to Bergen-Belsen, where Ilse’s job was to dismantle German soldiers’ shoes and uniforms. A SS guard who felt sympathy for her had her transferred to kitchen duty where she had greater access to food for herself and her family. In 1945-03, her father was beaten by German guards because he was unable to remain motionless when ordered to stand at attention. He died of his wounds a few days later. On 1945-04-09, Ilse, her sister and her mother were again deported to an unknown destination. On 1945-04-23, the train was finally stopped, and its passengers were liberated by the Russian Army, near Leipzig, Germany. They were repatriated to the Netherlands by the Dutch Red Cross. Ilse met her future husband, Gunter Zilversmit, in The Hague in 1945. The two became engaged in 1947 and married in 1949. Their first child was born in 1950. Ilse’s husband was anxious to leave Europe. Because Ilse already had some friends in Canada, the family decided to immigrate to Canada on October 3, 1951 with the help of the Jewish Immigrant Aid Services (JIAS).
- Accession No.
- 2011X.26.15
- Name Access
- Zilversmit, Ilse
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
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