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Earmuffs

https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn75222
Collection
Montreal Holocaust Museum
Description Level
Item
Material Type
object
Physical Description
Earmuffs : Sewn, welded : beige, blue, black, silver
Date
[ca. 1944-1945]
Collection
Montreal Holocaust Museum
Description Level
Item
Material Type
object
Physical Description
Earmuffs : Sewn, welded : beige, blue, black, silver
Other Title Information
Clothing, Headwear
Date
[ca. 1944-1945]
Physical Condition
Good
Notes
Metal headband with two striped fabric circles sewn at each end to be worn as ear protection.These prisoner earmuffs belonged to Israel Viezel, a former prisoner of the Auschwitz-Birkenau and Buchenwald concentration camps. Narrative: Israel Viezel was born in January 1919 in Marosvásárhely (Hungary) a town known today as Târgu Mure? in Romania. Raised in a religious family, he was attending a yeshiva in Sziget to become a rabbi when the Nazis invaded the region. On May 3, 1944, Israel was among the 8,638 Jews of Târgu Mure? to be forced into three ghettos and deported the same month to Auschwitz the same month. Selected for slave labour in Auschwitz, Israel was working in the forests surrounding the camp. He was later transferred to the concentration camp of Buchenwald. Israel survived the camps, as did three of his siblings. His parents, two sisters and one brother were killed in Auschwitz. After the end of the war, Israel returned to Romania and spent some time in Israel. He finally immigrated to New Brunswick, where one of his sisters had settled. After a few months in Saint John, he relocated to Montreal. Israel worked in several restaurants on the Saint-Laurent Boulevard before opening his own deli, “Israel Delicatessen”, on Decarie Boulevard. In 1965, due to construction on the road for the upcoming Expo 67, Israel Delicatessen had to close. Mr. Viezel took that opportunity to spend some vacation visiting his brother in Israel. This is where he met Talia, a child survivor from Romania, who would become his wife. They lived together in Montreal until his death in 1999.
Accession No.
2013.10.01
Name Access
Viezel, Talia
Places
Auschwitz-Birkenau, Poland, Europe
Archival / Genealogical
Archival Descriptions
Repository
Montreal Holocaust Museum
Images
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Jacket

https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn60072
Collection
Montreal Holocaust Museum
Description Level
Item
Material Type
object
Physical Description
Jacket : blue, grey, black, beige ; Ht: 77 cm x W: 58 cm
Date
1944-1945
Collection
Montreal Holocaust Museum
Description Level
Item
Material Type
object
Physical Description
Jacket : blue, grey, black, beige ; Ht: 77 cm x W: 58 cm
Other Title Information
Clothing, Outerwear
Date
1944-1945
Physical Condition
Good
Notes
Blue and grey vertically striped jacket with folded collar and 5 black buttons in front. Jacket has been altered to fit smaller female with one dart in the front right side and two darts on the left and right back side. Sewn on the inside back panel is a bias tape holding the jacket to its smaller side. On the top left side of the jacket is sewn a cotton tag printed with the prisoner's number. Underside of the collar is applied with different fabric; also with blue and grey stripes but in different hues than the jacket. Narrative: Jacket was given as a prisoner's uniform to the donor, Irma (Imy) Nemenoff-Gellert a few days after her arrival in Auschwitz-Birkenau on June 11, 1944. Imy (Irma) was born in Lugoj, Romania (or. Austro-Hungarian empire). She lived in Timisoara then in Cluj-Napoca. Her last domicile prior to deportation was in Cluj. She was in captivity from May 17, 1944 to May 5, 1945. By the time she deported to Auschwitz II-Birkenau (Poland), she was married but had no child. Her husband was killed in Auschwitz upon arrival and Imy was selected to work. In the camp, she worked in the “shit commando”, empty human excrements from the latrines; she also was made to dig with pickets holes in the ground. She became a liaison officer, doing some translation work. At the end of the war she was deported to Mauthausen (Austria), where she was liberated by the US Armed forces. Imy’s parents stayed in Romania and were not deported. After Liberation, Imy worked for the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration (UNRRA) with the US Army, doing clerical work and translation for a Colonel. She was fluent in English as she was given private lessons before the war. She immigrated to Canada in 1946.
Accession No.
2011.47.01
Name Access
Nemenoff-Gellert, Irma
Places
Auschwitz-Birkenau, Poland, Europe
Archival / Genealogical
Archival Descriptions
Repository
Montreal Holocaust Museum
Images
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Photograph

https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn59392
Collection
Montreal Holocaust Museum
Description Level
Item
Material Type
graphic material
Physical Description
Photograph : Paper : Printed : Ink : Black, white, grey ; Ht: 11 cm x W: 15 cm
Collection
Montreal Holocaust Museum
Description Level
Item
Material Type
graphic material
Physical Description
Photograph : Paper : Printed : Ink : Black, white, grey ; Ht: 11 cm x W: 15 cm
Other Title Information
Documentary Artifact
Physical Condition
Good
Language
Polish
Notes
Eighteen drawings, photograph copies of originals, depicting various scenes from the women’s camp in Auschwitz. Drawings depict scenes of abuse and cruelties inflicted on female inmates by their male and female guards. Caption on the top left of each page, signed 48035. Narrative: A search of the camp registration indicates that number 48035 belonged to Samuel Blil?, although transfers from different camps, reuse of old numbers, and lost records could result in it belonging to another prisoner.
Accession No.
1990.70.35
Name Access
HEPPNER, Dodo
Places
Auschwitz-Birkenau, Poland, Europe
Archival / Genealogical
Archival Descriptions
Repository
Montreal Holocaust Museum
Images
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Selection of Hungarian Jews in Birkenau

https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn75225
Collection
Montreal Holocaust Museum
Description Level
Item
Material Type
graphic material
Physical Description
Photograph : Paper : black, white ; Ht: 18 cm x W: 13 cm
Date
1944
Collection
Montreal Holocaust Museum
Description Level
Item
Material Type
graphic material
Physical Description
Photograph : Paper : black, white ; Ht: 18 cm x W: 13 cm
Other Title Information
Documentary Artifact
Date
1944
Physical Condition
Excellent
Language
Czech
Notes
b&w, outdoor scene. This picture shows two lines of men and women standing between railway tracks and a train. In the foreground, 6 men in military uniform and two men in striped prisoner uniforms are directing those people. There is a car at the end of the longer line and a man in a wheelchair on the left hand side, next to the train. On the other side of the tracks, a crowd of people is standing. This scene represents the arrival and selection of Hungarian Jews in Birkenau. Narrative: This picture is part of the Auschwitz album. The inscription at the back shows that this copy comes from the Czech News Agency (CTK).
Accession No.
2014X.04.02
Name Access
Zablow, Lou
Places
Auschwitz-Birkenau, Poland, Europe
Archival / Genealogical
Archival Descriptions
Repository
Montreal Holocaust Museum
Images
Less detail