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Basel, Rathaus
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn78282
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- textual record
- Physical Description
- Postcard : Paper : printed, handwritten : Ink; Pencil : black, beige, blue, red , purple, green ; Ht: 9 cm x W: 13,9 cm
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- textual record
- Physical Description
- Postcard : Paper : printed, handwritten : Ink; Pencil : black, beige, blue, red , purple, green ; Ht: 9 cm x W: 13,9 cm
- Other Title Information
- Documentary Artifact
- Physical Condition
- Good
- Language
- Yiddish
- Polish
- Notes
- The recto shows a color drawing of the city hall of Basel, Switzerland. In front of the city hall are a lot of people, possibly a market. On the verso are an address, on the r., and a handwritten message, on the l. Postcard is being sent in Opatow in Poland. Narrative: Leah Erman was a dressmaker in Opatow, Poland before the war. During World War II, she was forced to live in a ghetto in Sandomierz, Poland with her husband, Saul Erman and her son Erman Meir. In 1943, she and her son were sent to Starachowice labor camp, Poland where her son was working in an ammunition plant since his was a blacksmith. In 1944, the labor camp was liquidated and the prisoners still able to work were sent to Auschwitz where her head was shaved. She was then separated from her son. Leah came to Montreal from Austria. The donor, Erman Meir, went the Palestine after the war and immigrated in Montreal after the war.
- Accession No.
- 1991.14.06
- Name Access
- Erman, Meir
- Places
- Basel, Switzerland, Europe
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
Images
Memorandum
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn45491
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- textual record
- Physical Description
- Memorandum : paper : typed, handwritten : ink; pencil : beige, black ; Ht: 11 5/8 in. x W: 8 1/4 in.
- Date
- February 26, 1941
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- textual record
- Physical Description
- Memorandum : paper : typed, handwritten : ink; pencil : beige, black ; Ht: 11 5/8 in. x W: 8 1/4 in.
- Other Title Information
- Documentary Artifact
- Date
- February 26, 1941
- Physical Condition
- Good
- Language
- German
- Notes
- Double-sided memorandum detailing rules for Jewish immigrants in Basel. It contains curfew rules, as well as places and restaurants they can and can’t go. The punishment for breaking these rules is imprisonment. There are handwritten calculations written on the reverse in the bottom right corner.
- Accession No.
- 2005.20.01
- Name Access
- Fischer, Walter
- Places
- Basel, Switzerland, Europe
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
Images
Wettstein brige in Basel
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn78533
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- textual record
- Physical Description
- Postcard : Paper : ink : Beige, black, white ; Ht: 9 cm x W: 14 cm
- Date
- November 15, 1939
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- textual record
- Physical Description
- Postcard : Paper : ink : Beige, black, white ; Ht: 9 cm x W: 14 cm
- Other Title Information
- Documentary Artifact
- Date
- November 15, 1939
- Language
- German
- French
- Notes
- Recto has b&w photograph of a bridge crossing a river with a church in the background. Verso has handwritten message and address with postal stamp on top right and postal ink stamp. Postcard sent to Serge Philipson in Galway. Narrative: In the 1920’s Serge and Sophie Philipson (nee Orbach) left Berlin for Paris due to rising antisemitism. On July 15, 1930 their daughter Rachel was born. Serge, Sophie and Rachel were Polish citizen, they never got either the German or the French citizenship. In Paris, Serge worked for Les Modes Modernes, the hat factory of his brother-in-law, Henri. When an opportunity to expand the business in Ireland arose, Serge moved to Galway. The new factory opened in July 1938. In August 1939, Sophie, Rachel, and 4 other family members (Rachel’s cousin Stéphane, his maternal grandmother Néné, Serge’s sister Esther and Serge’s sister-in-law Choura) left for Cabourg, in Normandy. After the winter 1939-1940 it became difficult to communicate with Ireland but Rachel and Sophie could still send and receive letter from Serge. At the end of winter 1940, the group moved to Néris and in July 1940, after the occupation of France by Germany, they settled in the zone libre in the village of Cauterets, on the border with Spain. They were reunited with Robert, Serge’s brother. In August 1942, 4 family members (Sophie’s sister Ella and her husband Ernest, their daughter Ruth, Serge’s siblings Robert and Esther) were arrested by local police and deported. They were not seen again. At the beginning of 1943, Sophie, her mother Augusta and Rachel moved to Maubourguet. In April 1943, they moved to Cannes in Hotel Victoria with Henri, Stéphane and Néné. Henri, Sophie and Augusta went into hiding together while cousins Stéphane and Rachel were taken care of by Néné and returned to Maubourguet. In January 1944, Henri, Sophie and Augusta were denounced and arrested. They were transferred to Marseille before being sent by train to Drancy transit camp from where they were deported. It is believed they were killed in a Polish killing centre. In 1944, Rachel moved from one place to another – under a non-Jewish identity - and continued to correspond with her father. In June 1945, she reunited with her father Ireland. They had not seen each other for 6 years. In 1951, Rachel got married. In 1954, she immigrated to Montreal.
- Accession No.
- 2002.08.268
- Name Access
- Levy, Rachel
- Places
- Basel, Switzerland, Europe
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
Images
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