Signpost for mass grave
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn90304
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- Photograph : Paper : Printed : photograph : b&w ; Ht: 7.4 cm x W: 6.6 cm
- Date
- [ca. 1945]
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- Photograph : Paper : Printed : photograph : b&w ; Ht: 7.4 cm x W: 6.6 cm
- Other Title Information
- Documentary Artifact
- Date
- [ca. 1945]
- Physical Condition
- Good
- Language
- English
- Notes
- Large white border. Outdoor photograph of a signpost. The inscription on it reads: Grave No. 2/Approx. 5,000/23rd April 1945. The sign is on a field surrounded by a rope fence. Narrative: The RCAF, Royal Canadian Air Force, participated in the liberation of Bergen-Belsen. The donor, Lucien Benoit, was a member of the Royal Canadian Air Force, which participated in the liberation of Bergen-Belsen.
- Accession No.
- 1991.08.01
- Name Access
- Benoit, Lucien
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
Images
Signpost for mass grave
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn90305
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- Photograph : Paper : Printed : photograph : b&w ; Ht: 7.4 cm x W: 6.6 cm
- Date
- [ca. 1945]
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- Photograph : Paper : Printed : photograph : b&w ; Ht: 7.4 cm x W: 6.6 cm
- Other Title Information
- Documentary Artifact
- Date
- [ca. 1945]
- Physical Condition
- Good
- Language
- English
- Notes
- Large white border. Outdoor photograph of a signpost. The inscription on it reads: Grave No. 3/Approx. 5,000/24rd April 1945. The sign is in front of field and is placed below the level of the field. There is a building in the background Narrative: The RCAF, Royal Canadian Air Force, participated in the liberation of Bergen-Belsen. The donor, Lucien Benoit, was a member of the Royal Canadian Air Force, which participated in the liberation of Bergen-Belsen.
- Accession No.
- 1991.08.03
- Name Access
- Benoit, Lucien
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
Images
Letter
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn45467
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- textual record
- Physical Description
- Letter : paper : handwritten : ink : grey, black ; Ht: 7,5 in. x W: 10,25 in.
- Date
- April 30, 1945
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- textual record
- Physical Description
- Letter : paper : handwritten : ink : grey, black ; Ht: 7,5 in. x W: 10,25 in.
- Other Title Information
- Documentary Artifact
- Date
- April 30, 1945
- Physical Condition
- Good
- Language
- English
- Notes
- Double-sided personal letter on an envelope which unfolds; there is writing in both sides, as well as the address and sender's information. Written by Saul Stein to his father Ben Stein in Montreal. Saul describes his impressions of Bergen-Belsen when he and other R.C.A.F. soldiers liberated the concentration camp. He details his impressions, asks that his friends and family spread the news and hopes they can find some way of helping.
- Accession No.
- 2000.10.10
- Name Access
- Stein, Saul
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
Images
Bergen-Belsen former prisoners eating inside a building
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn45493
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- Photograph : paper : photography : black, white ; Ht: 8 in. x W: 10 1/4 in.
- Date
- 1945-1946
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- Photograph : paper : photography : black, white ; Ht: 8 in. x W: 10 1/4 in.
- Other Title Information
- Documentary Artifact
- Date
- 1945-1946
- Physical Condition
- Good
- Language
- French
- Notes
- b&w, white border. Indoors. Emaciated men wearing white shirts, their lower halves wrapped in blankets. They are sitting up on stretchers and eating or talking. The stretchers are lined up perpendicular to the wall and the windows are all open. Opposite the prisoners sit two soldiers, talking to them; the soldiers' faces are not visible.
- Accession No.
- 2005.37.02
- Name Access
- Benoit, Lucien
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
Images
Three women behind barbed wires at Bergen-Belsen
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn45737
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- Photograph : paper : photography : black, white ; Ht: 19 cm x W: 20,5 cm
- Date
- 1945
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- Photograph : paper : photography : black, white ; Ht: 19 cm x W: 20,5 cm
- Other Title Information
- Documentary Artifact
- Date
- 1945
- Physical Condition
- Good
- Notes
- b&w, white border. Outdoors. Three women standing behind barbed wire fence at Bergen-Belsen concentration camp after liberation in 1945. A fourth woman is just visible behind the first. All three are smiling; the one on the right is wearing a camp uniform and huddled as if she is cold.
- Accession No.
- 2011X.58.345
- Name Access
- MHMC
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
Images
Paul Trepman in his prisoner uniform at Liberation
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn51330
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- Photograph : Paper : Black, White
- Date
- [Later than 1945]
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- Photograph : Paper : Black, White
- Other Title Information
- Documentary Artifact
- Date
- [Later than 1945]
- Physical Condition
- Good
- Notes
- B&w. Outdoors. Portrait of Paul Trepman wearing a vertically striped uniform, leaning on a fire hydrant, with a building in the background. Narrative: Paul Trepman was born in Warsaw, Poland. He was an only child. His family were followers of the GurRebbe. In his youth, Paul Trepman joined the Betar Zionist movement. Trepman became a journalist and an author and published in the revisionist press. His studies at the University in Vilna were interrupted by the war. He survived the war living in the Warsaw area with fake Aryan identification papers until he was arrested in June 1943 and accused of being a Soviet spy. He was deported to Majdanek and subsequently to other camps. He was liberated in Bergen-Belsen in April 1945. After Liberation, he became involved in the cultural and political life of the Bergen-Belsen Displaced Persons Camp. In July 1945 he was the founding coeditor (with Rafael Olewsky and David Rosenthal) of Undzer Shtimme, the first Jewish newspaper in the British Zone. Trepman was also an editor of Zamy Feder's Anthology of Songs and Poems from the Ghettos and Concentration Camps, and was co-editor, again with Olewsky and Rosental, of an early photo album of the Holocaust, the multilingual Undzer Churbn in Bild, (Our Destruction in Pictures, Bergen-Belsen, 1946). Trepman and his wife immigrated to Montreal in 1948.
- Accession No.
- 1990.89.1
- Name Access
- Trepman, Babey
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
Images
Identification card
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn76176
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- textual record
- Physical Description
- Identification card : Cardboard : Printed, Handwritten : Ink : Beige, Black ; Ht: 5 in. x W: 8 in.
- Date
- September 29, 1945
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- textual record
- Physical Description
- Identification card : Cardboard : Printed, Handwritten : Ink : Beige, Black ; Ht: 5 in. x W: 8 in.
- Other Title Information
- Documentary Artifact
- Date
- September 29, 1945
- Physical Condition
- Good
- Language
- English
- Notes
- 1 page, double-sided. Folded once vertically. Document is a copy of the registration record of Judith (Judit) Winkler for the Displaced Persons system of the AEF (Allied Expeditionary Force). Recto is a printed form with personal information about Judith. Numbered G21539790. On verso, printed section entitled 'medical clearance certificate' left blank. 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.
- 1999.29.08
- Name Access
- Berlach, Judith
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
Images
Liberation of Bergen-Belsen
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn76645
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- Photograph : paper ; Ht: 7,1 cm x W: 10 cm
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- Photograph : paper ; Ht: 7,1 cm x W: 10 cm
- Other Title Information
- Documentary Artifact
- Physical Condition
- Poor
- Notes
- B&w photograph with a white border. An outdoor portrait of the grounds of Bergen-Belsen. Tents and barracks can be viewed on either side of the photograph. Narrative: A collection of photographs was brought back to Canada by RAF soldier Frank Wilshaw, who visited the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp after Liberation.
- Accession No.
- 2012.05.01
- Name Access
- Stobnicky, Arnie
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
Images
Burying the Dead at Bergen-Belsen
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn76646
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- Photograph : paper ; Ht: 6,9 cm x W: 10 cm
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- Photograph : paper ; Ht: 6,9 cm x W: 10 cm
- Other Title Information
- Documentary Artifact
- Physical Condition
- Good
- Notes
- B&w photograph with a white border. An outdoor scene, in which SS personnel are forced to bury the corpses in pits, while Allied troops point their guns at them. The bodies are overflowing from a wagon. In the background, the barracks and army vehicles are visible. Narrative: A collection of photographs was brought back to Canada by RAF soldier Frank Wilshaw, who visited the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp after Liberation.
- Accession No.
- 2012.05.02
- Name Access
- Stobnicky, Arnie
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
Images
Burying the Dead at Bergen-Belsen
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn76647
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- Photograph : paper ; Ht: 7 cm x W: 10 cm
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- Photograph : paper ; Ht: 7 cm x W: 10 cm
- Other Title Information
- Documentary Artifact
- Physical Condition
- Good
- Notes
- B&w photograph with a white border. An outdoor scene, in which SS personnel are forced to carry and bury the corpses in a mass grave at Bergen-Belsen, while an Allied troop looks on. Narrative: A collection of photographs was brought back to Canada by RAF soldier Frank Wilshaw, who visited the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp after Liberation.
- Accession No.
- 2012.05.03
- Name Access
- Stobnicky, Arnie
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
Images
Mass Grave at Bergen-Belsen
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn76648
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- Photograph : paper ; Ht: 7,1 cm x W: 10 cm
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- Photograph : paper ; Ht: 7,1 cm x W: 10 cm
- Other Title Information
- Documentary Artifact
- Physical Condition
- Good
- Notes
- B&w photograph with a white border. An outdoor portrait of a mass grave at Bergen-Belsen. The bodies are piled in a large heap. Narrative: A collection of photographs was brought back to Canada by RAF soldier Frank Wilshaw, who visited the Bergen-Belsen concentrationcamp after Liberation.
- Accession No.
- 2012.05.04
- Name Access
- Stobnicky, Arnie
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
Images
SS Personnel's Compound at Bergen-Belsen
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn76649
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- Photograph : paper ; Ht: 7,1 cm x W: 10 cm
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- Photograph : paper ; Ht: 7,1 cm x W: 10 cm
- Other Title Information
- Documentary Artifact
- Physical Condition
- Good
- Language
- German
- Notes
- B&w photograph with a white border. An outdoor portrait of the SS personnel's compound at Bergen-Belsen. Four buildings and a tent are shown beside a German tank. Narrative: A collection of photographs was brought back to Canada by RAF soldier Frank Wilshaw, who visited the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp after Liberation.
- Accession No.
- 2012.05.05
- Name Access
- Stobnicky, Arnie
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
Images
Oven at Bergen-Belsen
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn76650
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- Photograph : paper ; Ht: 10 cm x W: 7,1 cm
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- Photograph : paper ; Ht: 10 cm x W: 7,1 cm
- Other Title Information
- Documentary Artifact
- Physical Condition
- Good
- Notes
- B&w photograph with a white border. A portrait of an oven with a long metal rod poking out of it. It is located inside a building at Bergen-Belsen. Narrative: A collection of photographs was brought back to Canada by RAF soldier Frank Wilshaw, who visited the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp after Liberation.
- Accession No.
- 2012.05.06
- Name Access
- Stobnicky, Arnie
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
Images
Liberation of Bergen-Belsen
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn76651
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- Photograph : paper ; Ht: 7 cm x W: 9,9 cm
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- Photograph : paper ; Ht: 7 cm x W: 9,9 cm
- Other Title Information
- Documentary Artifact
- Physical Condition
- Good
- Language
- German
- Notes
- B&w photograph with a white border. An outdoor portrait of a deserted death camp with a German sign in the foreground. There is a barbed wire fence running into the background, meeting up with a barrack and a watch tower. On the right side of the photograph, a forest is shown. Narrative: A collection of photographs was brought back to Canada by RAF soldier Frank Wilshaw, who visited the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp after Liberation.
- Accession No.
- 2012.05.07
- Name Access
- Stobnicky, Arnie
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
Images
SS Personnel Burying the Dead
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn76652
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- Photograph : paper ; Ht: 7 cm x W: 9,9 cm
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- Photograph : paper ; Ht: 7 cm x W: 9,9 cm
- Other Title Information
- Documentary Artifact
- Physical Condition
- Poor
- Notes
- B&w photograph with a white border. An outdoor scene, in which SS personnel are forced to bury the corpses in pits, while an Allied troop points his gun at them. The bodies are overflowing from a wagon. Narrative: A collection of photographs was brought back to Canada by RAF soldier Frank Wilshaw, who visited the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp after Liberation.
- Accession No.
- 2012.05.08
- Name Access
- Stobnicky, Arnie
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
Images
Mass Grave at Bergen-Belsen
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn76653
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- Photograph : paper ; Ht: 7 cm x W: 9,9 cm
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- Photograph : paper ; Ht: 7 cm x W: 9,9 cm
- Other Title Information
- Documentary Artifact
- Physical Condition
- Poor
- Notes
- B&w photograph with a white border. An outdoor portrait of a mass grave at Bergen-Belsen. The bodies are piled in a large heap. Two men are standing in the grave, probably SS personnel that were burying the corpses. Narrative: A collection of photographs was brought back to Canada by RAF soldier Frank Wilshaw, who visited the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp after Liberation.
- Accession No.
- 2012.05.09
- Name Access
- Stobnicky, Arnie
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
Images
Corpses at Bergen-Belsen
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn76654
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- Photograph : paper ; Ht: 7 cm x W: 9,9 cm
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- Photograph : paper ; Ht: 7 cm x W: 9,9 cm
- Other Title Information
- Documentary Artifact
- Physical Condition
- Good
- Notes
- B&w photograph with a white border. An outdoor portrait of corpses that were found at Bergen-Belsen upon the camp's Liberation. There is a mound of clothing visible through the dirt. A male body is emaciated and is found on top of the others. The man's eyes were open when he died and his left hand is reaching towards his face. Narrative: A collection of photographs was brought back to Canada by RAF soldier Frank Wilshaw, who visited the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp after Liberation.
- Accession No.
- 2012.05.10
- Name Access
- Stobnicky, Arnie
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
Images
Mass Graves at Bergen-Belsen
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn76655
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- Photograph : paper ; Ht: 7 cm x W: 9,9 cm
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- Photograph : paper ; Ht: 7 cm x W: 9,9 cm
- Other Title Information
- Documentary Artifact
- Physical Condition
- Poor
- Notes
- B&w photograph with a white border. A outdoor portrait of mounds of dirt atop mass graves that are roped off with wire. A small sign is perched on each grave. Narrative: A collection of photographs was brought back to Canada by RAF soldier Frank Wilshaw, who visited the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp after Liberation.
- Accession No.
- 2012.05.11
- Name Access
- Stobnicky, Arnie
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
Images
Site of Bergen-Belsen
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn76656
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- Photograph : paper ; Ht: 7 cm x W: 10 cm
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- Photograph : paper ; Ht: 7 cm x W: 10 cm
- Other Title Information
- Documentary Artifact
- Physical Condition
- Poor
- Language
- English
- Notes
- B&w photograph with a white border. An outdoor portrait of the site of Bergen-Belsen after Liberation. There is a sign that says "This is the site of the infamous Belsen concentration camp liberated by the British on 15 April 1945. 10,000 unburied dead were found here. Another 13,000 have since died. All of them victims of the German new order in Europe, and an example of Nazi kultur." The sign stands in front of a barbed wire fence. In the background to the left, there is a watch tower. Narrative: A collection of photographs was brought back to Canada by RAF soldier Frank Wilshaw, who visited the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp after Liberation.
- Accession No.
- 2012.05.12
- Name Access
- Stobnicky, Arnie
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
Images
Exiting Bergen-Belsen
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn76657
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- Photograph : paper ; Ht: 6,9 cm x W: 9,9 cm
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- Photograph : paper ; Ht: 6,9 cm x W: 9,9 cm
- Other Title Information
- Documentary Artifact
- Physical Condition
- Poor
- Language
- English
- German
- Notes
- B&w photograph with a white border. An outdoor portrait of the exit at Bergen-Belsen. There are two signs, one in English and one in German. The English one says "You are leaving camp bounds. Are you armed?" The German one says "Nach Obernkirchen." In the background, there is a building visible, surrounded by many trees. Narrative: A collection of photographs was brought back to Canada by RAF soldier Frank Wilshaw, who visited the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp after Liberation.
- Accession No.
- 2012.05.13
- Name Access
- Stobnicky, Arnie
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
Images
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