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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
Comb
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn47469
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- object
- Physical Description
- Comb : cast (moulded), cut : brown, black
- Date
- 1939-1943
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- object
- Physical Description
- Comb : cast (moulded), cut : brown, black
- Other Title Information
- Toilet Article
- Date
- 1939-1943
- Physical Condition
- Poor
- Notes
- Brown and black comb with thin teeth along the top edge. The bottom edge widens out and has a slight curve; the side has a convex curve. Narrative: 30 female prisoners of the concentration camp Auschwitz-Birkenau used this comb, including Margit Kohan. Margit was originally from Beclean, in the Transylvania region of Romania. She was deported to Auschwitz in April 1944 and assigned to work in "Kanada", the warehouse where the goods confiscated from the prisoners were stored and sorted. Possession of such a personal item in the camp was forbidden. After Auschwitz, Margaret was transferred to other concentration camps to manufacture ammunition and was finally liberated in the camp of Terezin (Theresienstadt) in the Czech Republic. The comb was given to the museum by her husband, Andor Mihaly.
- Accession No.
- 1990.54.02
- Name Access
- Mihaly, Andor
- Places
- Auschwitz, Poland, Europe
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
Images
Death certificate
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn50146
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- textual record
- Physical Description
- Death certificate : Paper : beige, black ; Ht: 11,75 in. x W: 8 in.
- Date
- September 7, 1943
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- textual record
- Physical Description
- Death certificate : Paper : beige, black ; Ht: 11,75 in. x W: 8 in.
- Other Title Information
- Documentary Artifact
- Date
- September 7, 1943
- Physical Condition
- Good
- Language
- German
- Notes
- 1 page, folded 3 times horizontally, and once vertically. Notice of death for Willie Israel Deutz issued in Auschwitz and sent to his wife Paula Deutz Narrative: Willie Deutz, a German Jew from Frankfurt was married in 1929 to a German gentile woman named Paula. They had met as Paula worked as a servant for Willie’s parents. Willie was arrested in 1943 and sent to a prison in Darmstadt (Germany). Willie was killed on August 25, 1943 in Auschwitz-Birkenau (Poland). Paula received a death notice from the camp commandant, pretending her husband had succumbed to an infection and she could retrieve his ashes if she desired to do so.
- Accession No.
- 1996.05.02
- Name Access
- Ferch, Werner
- Places
- Auschwitz, Poland, Europe
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
Images
Envelope
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn45471
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- textual record
- Physical Description
- Envelope : paper : printed, handwritten : ink : blue-green, black, red ; Ht: 4,25 in. x W: 6,25 in.
- Date
- September 12, 1941
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- textual record
- Physical Description
- Envelope : paper : printed, handwritten : ink : blue-green, black, red ; Ht: 4,25 in. x W: 6,25 in.
- Other Title Information
- Documentary Artifact
- Date
- September 12, 1941
- Physical Condition
- Good
- Language
- German
- Notes
- Envelope issued by the Auschwitz concentration camp with printed instructions. On the left side there is a list of conditions to be observed in correspondence with prisoners; in the middle, the address to reply to; and on the right side, the address of the recipient. It bears a red 12 pfenning Paul von Hindenburg stamp, an "Auschwitz (Oberschlesien) a" postmark with the date "12 9-41 - 12", and a red approval stamp. Narrative: This envelope was sent by prisoner Ludwig Stankiewicz (b. 1903-08-25) from Auschwitz concentration camp to Mrs. Helene Stankiewicz in the Generalgouvernement.
- Accession No.
- 2011X.58.180
- Name Access
- MHMC
- Places
- Auschwitz, Poland, Europe
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
Images
Jacket
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn50252
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- object
- Physical Description
- Jacket : white, blue ; Ht: 27 in. x W: 20 in.
- Date
- 1942-1945
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- object
- Physical Description
- Jacket : white, blue ; Ht: 27 in. x W: 20 in.
- Other Title Information
- Clothing, Outerwear
- Date
- 1942-1945
- Physical Condition
- Good
- Notes
- Concentration camp prisoner uniform jacket made of striped cotton fabric. Jacket has three pockets, two at the bottom and one on the left side of the chest; 5 buttons in the front. Narrative: Zigmund (Sigmund) Schick was born on November 26, 1920 in Somotor, Slovakia (then Czechoslovakia). At age 7, his family moved to Antwerp, Belgium. Zigmund became a plumber. On July 18, 1942 he is sent along with 300 other Jews from Antwerp to the “Judenlager” of Les Mazures near the French city of Charleville-Mézières. On October 24, 1942 he is deported on transport 15 from Malines to Auschwitz where he arrives on October 26, 1942. Zigmund was selected to forced labour and was given the proisoner number 70672. He was sent to Jawischowitz (Jawiszowice), a subcamp of Auschwitz where he probably worked in the coal mines. Following Jawischowitz, he was sent to another labour camp in Wroclaw (Breslau). Zigmund was part of a death march from Breslau to Gross Rosen which left between January 23 and 25, 1945. It is believed that Zigmund escaped the death march along with two other prisoners before being liberated by the Russian army on January 29, 1945. Zigmund was repatriated to Belgium on May 3, 1945. He immigrated to Canada in 1951 along with his wife and their son.
- Accession No.
- 2011X.289.01
- Name Access
- Schick, Mark
- Places
- Auschwitz, Poland, Europe
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
Images
Postcard
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn45475
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- textual record
- Physical Description
- Postcard : cardboard : Ink : beige, blue, black ; Ht: 4,25 in. x W: 5,75 in.
- Date
- June 3, 1944
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- textual record
- Physical Description
- Postcard : cardboard : Ink : beige, blue, black ; Ht: 4,25 in. x W: 5,75 in.
- Other Title Information
- Documentary Artifact
- Date
- June 3, 1944
- Physical Condition
- Good
- Language
- German
- Notes
- Plain postcard sent by Sandor Zafir to his brother upon his arrival in Auschwitz. There is no stamp. A rubber stamp restricts answers to postcards of 30 words or less, in German, and adds that it was delivered by the Association of Hungarian Jews in Budapest. Narrative: Sandor Zafir was deported from the ghetto of Satu Mare to Auschwitz; he arrived on 1944-06-03. The postcard was written by a clerk in German on the day Sandor Zafir arrived at the camp; Mr. Zafir was asked to address and sign it. Sandor's brother, the recipient ofthis postcard, was in a Hungarian labour camp at the time the postcard was sent. The text is designed to reassure the family that all is well. The differences in handwriting are clearly visible; furthermore, the Zafir family did not speak German at home and so Sandor would not have written to his brother in German.
- Accession No.
- 2002.06.11
- Name Access
- Zafir, Alexander (Sandor)
- Places
- Auschwitz, Poland, Europe
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
Images
Postcard
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn59775
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- textual record
- Physical Description
- Postcard : Cardstock : Printed : Ink : Beige, black, blue, white ; Ht: 10 cm x W: 15 cm
- Date
- 1981
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- textual record
- Physical Description
- Postcard : Cardstock : Printed : Ink : Beige, black, blue, white ; Ht: 10 cm x W: 15 cm
- Other Title Information
- Documentary Artifact
- Date
- 1981
- Physical Condition
- Excellent
- Language
- Polish
- English
- French
- German
- Russian
- Notes
- Postcard with image printed on front, description on T.L. of back, space for message and address blank. Image of iron sign above the Auschwitz gate reading ARBEIT MACHT FREI.
- Accession No.
- 2011X.192.04
- Name Access
- Kornfeld, Szidonia
- Places
- Auschwitz, Poland, Europe
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
Images
Postcard
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn59776
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- textual record
- Physical Description
- Postcard : Cardstock : Printed : Ink : Red, black, green, grey, beige, yellow. ; Ht: 10 cm x W: 15 cm
- Date
- 1981
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- textual record
- Physical Description
- Postcard : Cardstock : Printed : Ink : Red, black, green, grey, beige, yellow. ; Ht: 10 cm x W: 15 cm
- Other Title Information
- Documentary Artifact
- Date
- 1981
- Physical Condition
- Excellent
- Language
- Polish
- English
- French
- German
- Russian
- Notes
- Postcard with image printed on front, description on T.L. of back, space for message and address blank. Image shows the iron carts of the Auschwitz crematorium covered with commemorative flowers and candles.
- Accession No.
- 2011X.192.06
- Name Access
- Kornfeld, Szidonia
- Places
- Auschwitz, Poland, Europe
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
Images
Postcard
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn59777
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- textual record
- Physical Description
- Postcard : Cardstock : Printed : Ink : Brown, blue, beige, black ; Ht: 10 cm x W: 15 cm
- Date
- 1981
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- textual record
- Physical Description
- Postcard : Cardstock : Printed : Ink : Brown, blue, beige, black ; Ht: 10 cm x W: 15 cm
- Other Title Information
- Documentary Artifact
- Date
- 1981
- Physical Condition
- Excellent
- Language
- Polish
- English
- French
- German
- Russian
- Notes
- Postcard with image printed on front, description on T.L. of back, space for message and address blank. Image of brick entrance into Auschwitz concentration camp with iron gate leading to a courtyard
- Accession No.
- 2011X.192.07
- Name Access
- Kornfeld, Szidonia
- Places
- Auschwitz, Poland, Europe
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
Images
Postcard
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn59778
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- textual record
- Physical Description
- Postcard : Cardstock : Printed : Ink : Brown, grey, green, beige, black ; Ht: 10 cm x W: 15 cm
- Date
- 1981
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- textual record
- Physical Description
- Postcard : Cardstock : Printed : Ink : Brown, grey, green, beige, black ; Ht: 10 cm x W: 15 cm
- Other Title Information
- Documentary Artifact
- Date
- 1981
- Physical Condition
- Excellent
- Language
- Polish
- English
- French
- German
- Russian
- Notes
- Postcard with image printed on front, description on T.L. of back, space for message and address blank. Image of brick wall with wood reinforcement and commemorative flowers and wreaths in front of it for the 20,000 prisoners who were executed in this spot.
- Accession No.
- 2011X.192.08
- Name Access
- Kornfeld, Szidonia
- Places
- Auschwitz, Poland, Europe
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
Images
Postcard
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn59779
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- textual record
- Physical Description
- Postcard : Cardstock : Printed : Ink : Blue, green, brown, beige, black ; Ht: 10 cm x W: 15 cm
- Date
- 1981
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- textual record
- Physical Description
- Postcard : Cardstock : Printed : Ink : Blue, green, brown, beige, black ; Ht: 10 cm x W: 15 cm
- Other Title Information
- Documentary Artifact
- Date
- 1981
- Physical Condition
- Excellent
- Language
- Polish
- English
- French
- German
- Russian
- Notes
- Postcard with image printed on front, description on T.L. of back, space for message and address blank. Image of the main Entrance to Auschwitz. Long brick building with train tracks leading through it for transports.
- Accession No.
- 2011X.192.10
- Name Access
- Kornfeld, Szidonia
- Places
- Auschwitz, Poland, Europe
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
Images
Postcard
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn59780
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- textual record
- Physical Description
- Postcard : Cardstock : Printed : Ink : Blue, green, brown, beige, black ; Ht: 10 cm x W: 15 cm
- Date
- 1981
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- textual record
- Physical Description
- Postcard : Cardstock : Printed : Ink : Blue, green, brown, beige, black ; Ht: 10 cm x W: 15 cm
- Other Title Information
- Documentary Artifact
- Date
- 1981
- Physical Condition
- Excellent
- Language
- Polish
- English
- French
- German
- Russian
- Notes
- Postcard with image printed on front, description on T.L. of back, space for message and address blank. Image of cremation chamber chimney.
- Accession No.
- 2011X.192.12
- Name Access
- Kornfeld, Szidonia
- Places
- Auschwitz, Poland, Europe
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
Images
Postcard set
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn59781
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- textual record
- Physical Description
- Postcard set : Cardstock : Printed : Ink : Blue, brown, grey, black, green, white ; Ht: 10 in. x W: 7 in.
- Date
- 1981
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- textual record
- Physical Description
- Postcard set : Cardstock : Printed : Ink : Blue, brown, grey, black, green, white ; Ht: 10 in. x W: 7 in.
- Other Title Information
- Documentary Artifact
- Date
- 1981
- Physical Condition
- Good
- Language
- Polish
- Notes
- Six page booklet, glued binding, vertical stripes on cover, perforated edge on right side where full-sized postcards were removed, miniature image and description printed in booklet. Photos from Auschwitz-Birkenau, printed by the Auschwitz-Birkenau museum.
- Accession No.
- 2011X.192.16
- Name Access
- Kornfeld, Szidonia
- Places
- Auschwitz, Poland, Europe
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
Images
Postcard set
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn59782
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- textual record
- Physical Description
- Postcard set : Cardstock : Printed : Ink : Blue, brown, grey, black, green, white ; Ht: 10 cm x W: 7 cm
- Date
- 1981
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- textual record
- Physical Description
- Postcard set : Cardstock : Printed : Ink : Blue, brown, grey, black, green, white ; Ht: 10 cm x W: 7 cm
- Other Title Information
- Documentary Artifact
- Date
- 1981
- Physical Condition
- Good
- Language
- Polish
- Notes
- Six page booklet, glued binding, vertical stripes on cover, perforated edge on right side where full-sized postcards were removed, miniature image and description printed in booklet. Photos from Auschwitz-Birkenau, printed by the Auschwitz-Birkenau museum.
- Accession No.
- 2011X.192.17
- Name Access
- Kornfeld, Szidonia
- Places
- Auschwitz, Poland, Europe
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
Images
Receipt
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn75152
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- textual record
- Physical Description
- Receipt : Paper : Typed, Handwritten : Graphite pencil : Beige, Black, Grey ; Ht: 1,5 in. x W: 5,5 in.
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- textual record
- Physical Description
- Receipt : Paper : Typed, Handwritten : Graphite pencil : Beige, Black, Grey ; Ht: 1,5 in. x W: 5,5 in.
- Other Title Information
- Documentary Artifact
- Physical Condition
- Good
- Language
- German
- Notes
- 1 page, single-sided. Piece of beige paper with the German word Anerkannt - Recognized (trad.) typed on it, with the signature below it in pencil. Narrative: This receipt was signed by the mother of the donor, Walter Absil. Such receipts were issued to give camp inmates the impression that their belongings would be returned to them. Walter Absil obtained this receipt with his mother's earrings, as well as a receipt signed by his father and his father's watch, after the war. The objects had been found by Allied forces in a railroad car full of jewelry confiscated from prisoners. It is likely that the jewelry was confiscated from Margarethe Bondy-Fischer upon her arrival in Auschwitz.
- Accession No.
- 2011X.64.04
- Name Access
- Absil, Walter
- Places
- Auschwitz, Poland, Europe
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
Images
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