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Alice Shenkier and her Brother's Wife
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn45639
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- Photograph : Paper ; Ht: 5,4 cm x W: 7,8 cm
- Date
- 1937
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- Photograph : Paper ; Ht: 5,4 cm x W: 7,8 cm
- Other Title Information
- Documentary Artifact
- Date
- 1937
- Physical Condition
- Good
- Notes
- B&w photograph with a white border. An outdoor scene, in which two women are sitting on a bench, on the deck of a ship. The woman on the left is wearing a dark coloured dress with a floral blouse peeking out at the collar and a dark coloured coat draped over her shoulders. The woman on the right is wearing a long dark coloured coat with a light coloured blouse peeking out at the collar. From left to right, Henia Eckstein and Alice Eckstein are shown.
- Accession No.
- 2000.84.12
- Name Access
- Shenkier, Maurice
- Places
- Brussels, Belgium, Europe
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
Images
Booklet
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn76755
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- textual record
- Physical Description
- Booklet : Paper : Printed : Red, black ; Ht: 11.8 cm x W: 42.4 cm
- Date
- 1945
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- textual record
- Physical Description
- Booklet : Paper : Printed : Red, black ; Ht: 11.8 cm x W: 42.4 cm
- Other Title Information
- Documentary Artifact
- Date
- 1945
- Physical Condition
- Good
- Language
- French
- Notes
- Fold out document with six pages(recto verso). The document bears hommage to the Jewish Partisans who were killed in the liberation of Belgium. The inside of the booklet contains photographs and names of those soldiers of the Belgium resistance movement. The booklet includes a photo of Lajb (Lieb) Rabinowicz, the brother of the donor's father. Narrative: The donor, Daniel Rabinowicz is the son of Icek Rabinowicz and Mindla Rabinowicz (nee Elgarten). Lieb (Liebke) Rabinowicz was the brother of Icek Rabinowicz. He married Lola Bryftreger in 1939. Lieb was recruited by Jacob Gutfranjd in 1941 to be part of Belgian Army of Partisans (French: Armée belge des partisans), better known as the Armed Partisans. Lieb was active in the Jewish Partisans until 1943 where he was killed in battle, defending his commanding officer Jacob Gutfrajnd at a hospital in Etterbeek. After his death, Lola who had also been a member of the resistance was deported to Auschwitz (Poland). She survived the camp and went back to Brussels agyer the war and was reunited with her only daughter Eliane who had been left in the care of a Belgian Catholic couple as a baby. Lola remarried and later immigrated to Toronto with her family.
- Accession No.
- 2014.03.05
- Name Access
- Rabinowicz, Daniel
- Places
- Brussels, Belgium
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
Images
Buchenwald: Les Horreurs des Camps de Torture Nazis: Reportages Photographiques
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn47579
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- textual record
- Physical Description
- Booklet : printed, bound, photography : sepia, beige, black ; Ht: 24 cm x W: 15,4 cm
- Date
- May 1945
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- textual record
- Physical Description
- Booklet : printed, bound, photography : sepia, beige, black ; Ht: 24 cm x W: 15,4 cm
- Other Title Information
- Documentary Artifact
- Date
- May 1945
- Physical Condition
- Good
- Language
- French
- Notes
- 15 pages. soft cover, paper bound and stapled. Beige cover with a sepia photo of 2 emaciated men; titles in beige at the top and bottom. Publishing information is listed on the back cover. Back cover is a sepia photo of a nurse feeding an emaciated prisoner with captions at the bottom in black. Interior pages are beige with black text and sepia photos.
- Accession No.
- 2011X.335.01
- Name Access
- Tiger, Dolly
- Places
- Brussels, Belgium, Europe
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
Images
Calling card
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn90433
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- textual record
- Physical Description
- Calling card : Cardstock : printed : Ink : beige, green, blue ; Ht: 3 in. x W: 4 5/8 in.
- Date
- [Prior to 1939]
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- textual record
- Physical Description
- Calling card : Cardstock : printed : Ink : beige, green, blue ; Ht: 3 in. x W: 4 5/8 in.
- Other Title Information
- Documentary Artifact
- Date
- [Prior to 1939]
- Physical Condition
- Good
- Language
- Dutch
- Notes
- 1 page. One-sided busines card. Printed card for Meubelmangazijn, a furniture store owned by the Shenkiers in Antwerp, Belgium. Narrative: Donor Maurice Shenkier was born on 1930-12-27 in Antwerp, Belgium. The German army started bombing Antwerp in 1940-05 and Maurice and his parents immediately fled to France. In Nice, Maurice was forced to be part of a fascist youth group. In 1942-07, the family had to flee again and they crossed the Spanish border illegally. They were then arrested by the Spanish police. Instead of sending them back to France, the officers helped Maurice’s family find a place to live. Maurice and his parents moved to Portugal where they stayed until 1944-04. They embarked on the Serpa Pinto ship to Philadelphia. Upon arrival, they took a train to Montreal.
- Accession No.
- 2000.84.03
- Name Access
- Shenkier, Maurice
- Places
- Brussels, Belgium, Europe
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
Images
Card
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn75148
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- textual record
- Physical Description
- Card : Cardstock : Printed, Typed : Ink : Blue, Red, Black, White ; Ht: 5,25 in. x W: 3,25 in.
- Date
- January 8, 1945-December 31, 1945
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- textual record
- Physical Description
- Card : Cardstock : Printed, Typed : Ink : Blue, Red, Black, White ; Ht: 5,25 in. x W: 3,25 in.
- Other Title Information
- Documentary Artifact
- Date
- January 8, 1945-December 31, 1945
- Physical Condition
- Good
- Language
- Dutch
- French
- German
- Notes
- 1 page, double-sided. 3 graphic panels on each side, intended to be folded and carried as a booklet. Folded vertically 2 times. Dark blue cardstock with black borders around each panel except central back panel. Back right panel (booklet cover) has 2 red stripes diagonally in top left corner and in center has organization's insignia: the letters FF in a circle with 2 small vertical lines on top of the circle. Small square b&w photo of cardholder stapled to center of front page with portion of circular stamp over bottom right corner of photo. Document is a membership card for the Austrian National Front, an antifascist resistance organization founded during the Third Reich by German and Austrian Communist refugees in Belgium and France. Document issued to Heinz Rübler. Issued January 8, 1945 in Brussels, Belgium; renewed 4 times as per form on back left panel, until December 31, 1945. Narrative: Heinz Rübler was the brother-in-law of the donor, Walter Absil.
- Accession No.
- 2000.02.04
- Name Access
- Absil, Walter
- Places
- Brussels, Belgium, Europe
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
Images
Card
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn75149
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- textual record
- Physical Description
- Card : Cardboard : Printed, Handwritten : Ink : Green, Red, Black ; Ht: 3,25 in. x W: 5,5 in.
- Date
- 1946
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- textual record
- Physical Description
- Card : Cardboard : Printed, Handwritten : Ink : Green, Red, Black ; Ht: 3,25 in. x W: 5,5 in.
- Other Title Information
- Documentary Artifact
- Date
- 1946
- Physical Condition
- Good
- Language
- French
- Dutch
- German
- Notes
- 1 page, double sided. Horizontal paper. Membership card for the Belgian Resistance Federation (trad.) issued to Heinz Rübler for the year of 1946. Card is numbered 6436 and membership is for the Molenbeek section of the organization. Flemish version on back is blank. Red Belgian postal stamp affixed to top right corner of card under circular stamp. In background of card, in blue ink, there is a drawing of a man brandishing a sword, standing on a broken swastika on a platform shaped like a map of Belgium.
- Accession No.
- 2000.02.06
- Name Access
- Absil, Walter
- Places
- Brussels, Belgium, Europe
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
Images
Card
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn75150
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- textual record
- Physical Description
- Card : Paper : Printed, Typed : Ink : Beige, Black, Red ; Ht: 3,75 in. x W: 2,75 in.
- Date
- May 15, 1944-November 18, 1944
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- textual record
- Physical Description
- Card : Paper : Printed, Typed : Ink : Beige, Black, Red ; Ht: 3,75 in. x W: 2,75 in.
- Other Title Information
- Documentary Artifact
- Date
- May 15, 1944-November 18, 1944
- Physical Condition
- Good
- Language
- French
- Dutch
- Notes
- 1 page, double-sided. 3 graphic panels on each side, intended to be folded and carried as a booklet. Folded vertically 2 times. Square b&w photo of cardholder stapled to center, partially covered by circular stamp. Stamp has skull and crossbones insignia in center. Center back panel (front cover of booklet) is bordered by a red vertical rectangle within a black rectangle. At center of panel in black ink is a skull and crossbones insignia. Document is a membership card, numbered 00508, for Belgian resistance group Les Affranchis. Cardholder is Léopold Heinz Rübler, member 01699, who served as soldier in the 4th company of the Brussels division from May 15, 1944 until November 18, 1944. Narrative: The armband belonged to Heinz Rübler, donor’s brother-in-law. By 1942, Heinz Rübler was in the underground and remained involved until liberation. He used this armband after liberation. It is not the official one of the Belgian army. It comes from Heinz Rübler’s estate and was donated after his death. Before the war, Heinz lived in Brussels, Belgium. He died in the U.S.A. in 1999. Heinz Rübler was the brother-in-law of the donor, Walter Absil.
- Accession No.
- 2000.02.02
- Name Access
- Absil, Walter
- Places
- Brussels, Belgium, Europe
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
Images
Card
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn75162
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- textual record
- Physical Description
- Card : Paper : Handwritten, Typed : Ink : Beige, Black ; Ht: 3 in. x W: 4 3/4 in.
- Date
- 1945
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- textual record
- Physical Description
- Card : Paper : Handwritten, Typed : Ink : Beige, Black ; Ht: 3 in. x W: 4 3/4 in.
- Other Title Information
- Documentary Artifact
- Date
- 1945
- Physical Condition
- Good
- Language
- French
- Notes
- 1 page, single-sided. Resistance card for Heinz Rübler issued by the Fédération Belge de la Résistance for 1945. This membership, numbered 1371, is for the local division of Molenbeek. In the upper left-hand section of the card, there is a drawing of a man brandishing a sword, standing on a broken swastika on a platform shaped like a map of Belgium. Narrative: Heinz Rübler was the brother-in-law of the donor, Walter Absil.
- Accession No.
- 1999.09.03
- Name Access
- Absil, Walter
- Places
- Brussels, Belgium, Europe
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
Images
Card
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn75164
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- textual record
- Physical Description
- Card : Paper : Printed, Handwritten : Ink; : Beige, Black, Green, Red, Blue ; Ht: 3 1/2 in. x W: 5 5/8 in.
- Date
- February 03, 1947
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- textual record
- Physical Description
- Card : Paper : Printed, Handwritten : Ink; : Beige, Black, Green, Red, Blue ; Ht: 3 1/2 in. x W: 5 5/8 in.
- Other Title Information
- Documentary Artifact
- Date
- February 03, 1947
- Physical Condition
- Good
- Language
- French
- Notes
- 1 page, double-sided. Membership card for Heinz Rübler from the Fédération Belge de la Résistance, section West Brussels. Membership is numbered 13669 and is valid for the year 1947. Narrative: Heinz Rübler was the brother-in-law of the donor, Walter Absil.
- Accession No.
- 2012X.11.05
- Name Access
- Absil, Walter
- Places
- Brussels, Belgium, Europe
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
Images
Certificate
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn59578
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- textual record
- Physical Description
- Certificate : paper : Typewritten : ink : Beiige, black ; Ht: 21 cm x W: 14 cm
- Date
- October 05, 1948
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- textual record
- Physical Description
- Certificate : paper : Typewritten : ink : Beiige, black ; Ht: 21 cm x W: 14 cm
- Other Title Information
- Documentary Artifact
- Date
- October 05, 1948
- Physical Condition
- Good
- Language
- French
- Dutch
- Notes
- Letter has two binder holes in right edge, a Brussels coat of arms stamped top center, and official stamp bottom left. Dated 5 October 1948. This is a Restitution of War Damages. It belongs to Chaim and Ruchla Karasin. This document was found by B. Barzilai in her mother’s home. Narrative: Chaim Karasin is a Russian refugee. He was born 3 December 1913 in Warsaw, Poland, to Abraham Karasin and Beila (Baijla) Fridman (who had both died by 22 June 1942). Chaim was married to Ruchla Hasfield on 22 June 1942 (she was born 18 May 1910). She was the daughter of Joseph and Malis Hindel. Chaim and Ruchla had for children; Beatrix (donor) (4 May 1941), Helene-Mayriane (15 Mai 1946) Ruth (9 July 1947) and Joseph Ruben (4 December 1949). In 1944, Chaim was described as being 175 cm tall, small, with short hair. He was a Polish refugee, arriving in Geneva on 9 October 1943. Ruchla's parents had been deported to Sobibor on 6 July 1943 shortly before half of the camp was killed in an uprising. Chaim's parents seem to have been discharged from Westerbork holding camp on 12 January 1943. Ruchla's brother Jacob died in Sobibor May 21 1943.
- Accession No.
- 1996.27.32
- Name Access
- Barzilai (Karasin), Beatrice
- Places
- Brussels, Belgium, Europe
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
Images
Certificate
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn59795
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- textual record
- Physical Description
- Certificate : Paper : Printed : Ink : Beige, black, purple ; Ht: 21 cm x W: 13,5 cm
- Date
- July 15, 1947
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- textual record
- Physical Description
- Certificate : Paper : Printed : Ink : Beige, black, purple ; Ht: 21 cm x W: 13,5 cm
- Other Title Information
- Documentary Artifact
- Date
- July 15, 1947
- Physical Condition
- Good
- Language
- Dutch
- Notes
- Page with letter head of "Nationaal Werk En Politieke Gevangenen Van den Oorlog 1914-1918", double-sided, same form printed in German and French, two rows of x's across letterhead. Certificate of Assistance to Political Prisoners for David Kropveld. 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.
- 1990.83.17
- Name Access
- Kropveld, David
- Places
- Brussels, Belgium, Europe
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
Images
Certificate
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn75123
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- textual record
- Physical Description
- Certificate : Paper : Printed, Typed, Handwritten : Ink : B&W ; Ht: 29,7 cm x W: 21 cm
- Date
- [Later than 1945]
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- textual record
- Physical Description
- Certificate : Paper : Printed, Typed, Handwritten : Ink : B&W ; Ht: 29,7 cm x W: 21 cm
- Other Title Information
- Documentary Artifact
- Date
- [Later than 1945]
- Physical Condition
- Excellent
- Language
- French
- Notes
- 1 page, single-sided. Folded 3 times horizontally. Official document from the Belgian Minister of Public Health and Environment, War Victims Administration, attesting that Otto Bondy was interned in Malines (Mechelen) transit camp in Belgium on September 18, 1943 and was deported from Malines on September 20, 1943 as prisoner number 3 on transport 22A. The document states that Otto Bondy did not return. Document refers to file number 00096, code ABSWA1, and 125/CB/PF is typed under the letterhead. Narrative: Otto Bondy was the father of the donor, Walter Absil. He was born in Vienna, Austria on January 27, 1897, and fled to Belgium with his family in 1938, one day after the annexion of Austria by the German Reich. He was deported from the Malines (Melechen) transit camp in Belgium to Auschwitz, Poland in September 1943, where he was murdered.
- Accession No.
- 2011X.64.01
- Name Access
- Absil, Walter
- Places
- Brussels, Belgium, Europe
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
Images
Certificate
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn75168
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- textual record
- Physical Description
- Certificate : Paper : Handwritten, Typed, : Ink : Beige, Black ; Ht: 5 3/4 in. x W: 8 1/4 in.
- Date
- June 9, 1942
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- textual record
- Physical Description
- Certificate : Paper : Handwritten, Typed, : Ink : Beige, Black ; Ht: 5 3/4 in. x W: 8 1/4 in.
- Other Title Information
- Documentary Artifact
- Date
- June 9, 1942
- Physical Condition
- Good
- Language
- German
- Notes
- 1 page, double-sided. Document exempting Erika Rübler from wearing the yellow star. She had to carry it with her Identification card. It was valid for 1 month and was extended twice to August 31, 1942. Additional handwritten note by the signatory on the bottom right corner that her name should be taken off the Jewish register.
- Accession No.
- 2011X.64.10
- Name Access
- Absil, Walter
- Places
- Brussels, Belgium, Europe
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
Images
Certificate
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn76237
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- textual record
- Physical Description
- Certificate : Paper : Printed, Typed, Handwritten : Ink : Beige, Black, Blue ; Ht: 7 1/8 in. x W: 4 3/8 in.
- Date
- January 9, 1948-January 15, 1948
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- textual record
- Physical Description
- Certificate : Paper : Printed, Typed, Handwritten : Ink : Beige, Black, Blue ; Ht: 7 1/8 in. x W: 4 3/8 in.
- Other Title Information
- Documentary Artifact
- Date
- January 9, 1948-January 15, 1948
- Physical Condition
- Good
- Language
- English
- French
- Notes
- 1 page, single-sided. Folded once horizontally. Printed on letterhead of Aide aux Israélites Victimes de la Guerre (Assistance for Jewish War Victims, trad.), Medical Services Department. Document certifies that Chana Berkowicz née Trompeter was succesfully vaccinated against smallpox. Narrative: Chana (Chane, Annie) (Trompeter) Berkowicz was the mother of the donor, Jack (Jacques) Berkowicz. Born in Mielec, Poland, was living in Vienna, Austria with her parents and two sisters. In 1938, after the German annexation of Austria, the family fled, driving to France via Belgium. Tuwja (Tuwyas, Tuwia, Tuvia, Tobias) Bercowicz (Berkowicz) was the donor's father. Born in Vilna, Tuwyas immigrated to Belgium in 1933 and when Belgium fell to Nazi Germany in 1940, he fled to France, hoping to reach Morocco by boat from Marseilles. Tuwyas and Chana met in Lyon, France in 1941 and married. Their daughter Dorothée was born in 1942. The family attempted to flee France by boat in Marseilles, but were stopped by Vichy police. They fled Marseilles and went south, into the Pyrenees region, living in various small vilages. Their son Jack was born in Bernac-Dessus in 1944. The family survived the war and returned to Brussels from 1945-1948, and then immigrated to Canada with the help of the American Joint Distribution Committee. They were sponsored by Tuwyas' sister Luba, who was already living in Halifax. The Berkowicz family settled in Montreal.
- Accession No.
- 2005.01.18
- Name Access
- Berkowicz, Jack
- Places
- Brussels, Belgium, Europe
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
Images
Envelope
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn50161
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- textual record
- Physical Description
- Envelope : Paper : Beige, pink, blue ; Ht: 3,75 in. x W: 5,75 in.
- Date
- September 22, 1943
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- textual record
- Physical Description
- Envelope : Paper : Beige, pink, blue ; Ht: 3,75 in. x W: 5,75 in.
- Other Title Information
- Documentary Artifact
- Date
- September 22, 1943
- Physical Condition
- Good
- Language
- French
- Notes
- The envelope is cream coloured with a pink and cream check design inside. Circular stamp in upper right corner, on top of a square postage stamp with a man facing right on it. Postmark “Hassel 22.9.43”. Narrative: Envelope sent by Otto and Margaraethe Bondy (nee Fischer) as they were being deported from Brussels. The envelope was addressed to their neighbours in Brussels and later given to their son. There is a postage stamp and the postmark “Hassel 22 9 43”. The Bondy were deported on transport XXIIA on September 20, 1943 which arrived in Auschwitz on 1943-09-22. They were both killed on Auscwhitz. Their children survived in hiding.
- Accession No.
- 1990.96.141
- Name Access
- Absil, Walter
- Places
- Brussels, Belgium, Europe
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
Images
Family register
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn76766
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- textual record
- Physical Description
- Family register : printed, handwritten : red:beige, green, gold, black ; Ht: 19 cm x W: 12.5 cm
- Date
- 1942-1951
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- textual record
- Physical Description
- Family register : printed, handwritten : red:beige, green, gold, black ; Ht: 19 cm x W: 12.5 cm
- Other Title Information
- Documentary Artifact
- Date
- 1942-1951
- Physical Condition
- Good
- Language
- French
- Notes
- Hardcover red booklet with gold decoration, containing 18 pages. Inside cover is yellow with gold decorations and the first page is pale green. The details are handwritten in black ink certifiying the marriage of Mindla Elgarten and Icek Rabinowicz. The birthdates of their two children: Daniel and Elise Rabinowicz are recorded on page two. Narrative: Donor is the son of Icek Rabinowicz and Mindla Rabinowicz (born Elgarten). Mindla was born in Warsaw, Poland in 1923 and immigrated to Brussels with her family in 1926. Icek was born in 1919 in Ciechanow, Poland and immigrated to Belgium with his family at the age of 10. The two met through a Jewish youth group. They survived the war in Belgium by concealing their Jewish Identity and carrying false identification papers. They were also both members of the Belgian Resistance movement where they distributed false identification papers to other Jews in Belgium. They married in Brussels in 1946 and had two children, Daniel and Élise Rabinowicz. They immigrated to Canada in 1951, settling in Montréal, where Icek found work in his profession as a pursemaker. Mindla later went to University and obtained a degree as a translator. Mindla had two younger siblings and only her brother survived by hiding at a clergy house. Her sister was arrested by Germans and sent to a concentration camp where she was presumably killed.
- Accession No.
- 2014.03.16
- Name Access
- Rabinowicz, Daniel
- Places
- Brussels, Belgium
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
Images
Form
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn76769
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- textual record
- Physical Description
- Form : Paper : printed, typed : Ink : beige, black, pink, green ; Ht: 33.9 cm x W: 21.3 cm
- Date
- 1951
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- textual record
- Physical Description
- Form : Paper : printed, typed : Ink : beige, black, pink, green ; Ht: 33.9 cm x W: 21.3 cm
- Other Title Information
- Documentary Artifact
- Date
- 1951
- Physical Condition
- Good
- Language
- French
- Notes
- Form has been folded horizontally and vertically. The document is an insurance policy from N.E. Shoenberg, transport insurance for items shipped from Cherbourg to Montréal. A small pink notice labled "very important" is stapled to the document describing procedures for parties receiving the merchandise at its destination. Two small notices are stapled to the document explaining clauses in the insurance policy. Narrative: Donor is the son of Icek Rabinowicz and Mindla Rabinowicz (born Elgarten). Mindla was born in Warsaw, Poland in 1923 and immigrated to Brussels with her family in 1926. Icek was born in 1919 in Ciechanow, Poland and immigrated to Belgium with his family at the age of 10. The two met through a Jewish youth group. They survived the war in Belgium by concealing their Jewish Identity and carrying false identification papers. They were also both members of the Belgian Resistance movement where they distributed false identification papers to other Jews in Belgium. They married in Brussels in 1946 and had two children, Daniel and Élise Rabinowicz. They immigrated to Canada in 1951, settling in Montréal, where Icek found work in his profession as a pursemaker. Mindla later went to University and obtained a degree as a translator. Mindla had two younger siblings and only her brother survived by hiding at a clergy house. Her sister was arrested by Germans and sent to a concentration camp where she was presumably killed.
- Accession No.
- 2014.03.19
- Name Access
- Rabinowicz, Daniel
- Places
- Brussels, Belgium
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
Images
Herman Shenkier and his Girlfriend
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn45642
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- Photograph : Paper ; Ht: 14,7 cm x W: 9,8 cm
- Date
- 1928
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- Photograph : Paper ; Ht: 14,7 cm x W: 9,8 cm
- Other Title Information
- Documentary Artifact
- Date
- 1928
- Physical Condition
- Good
- Notes
- B&w photograph with a white border. A portrait of a young man and woman in front of a backdrop. The woman is wearing a short dark coloured coat with a dark coloured skirt and boots. In her left hand, she is holding light coloured gloves and a small bag. Atop her head is a large-brimmed feather hat. The man is wearing a long light coloured trench coat with dark coloured pants and boots. His left hand is covered by a dark glove and he is holding onto the other glove. He is wearing a light coloured fedora hat. Those depicted in the photograph are Herman Shenkier and his girlfriend.
- Accession No.
- 2000.84.15
- Name Access
- Shenkier, Maurice
- Places
- Brussels, Belgium, Europe
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
Images
Identification card
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn50269
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- textual record
- Physical Description
- Identification card : Paper : Beige, Red, Black, White, Blue
- Date
- November 24, 1939
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- textual record
- Physical Description
- Identification card : Paper : Beige, Red, Black, White, Blue
- Other Title Information
- Documentary Artifact
- Date
- November 24, 1939
- Physical Condition
- Poor
- Language
- French
- Dutch
- Notes
- 1 page, double sided, folded into 3 vertical panels. On the interior is a photograph of Friedrich Rübler, the donor's brother in-law. There is also a circular stamp with the Belgian Coat of Arms in the centre. This identification card was delivered to foreigners in Belgium. It is stamped in red "JUIF-JOOD", identifying Friedrich as Jewish.
- Accession No.
- 1990.113.01
- Name Access
- Absil, Walter
- Places
- Brussels, Belgium, Europe
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
Images
Identification Card
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn59577
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- textual record
- Physical Description
- Identification Card : paper : Print ; Ht: 16 cm x W: 10,2 cm
- Date
- 1948-1954
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- textual record
- Physical Description
- Identification Card : paper : Print ; Ht: 16 cm x W: 10,2 cm
- Other Title Information
- Documentary Artifact
- Date
- 1948-1954
- Physical Condition
- Fragile
- Language
- French
- Dutch
- Notes
- Identification form with printed border, hand written information added. This was page one of thirty-two original pages. It belonged to Chaim Karasin, a Russian immigrant in Belgium. Narrative: Chaim Karasin is a Russian refugee. He was born 3 December 1913 in Warsaw, Poland, to Abraham Karasin and Beila (Baijla) Fridman (who had both died by 22 June 1942). Chaim was married to Ruchla Hasfield on 22 June 1942 (she was born 18 May 1910). She was the daughter of Joseph and Malis Hindel. Chaim and Ruchla had for children; Beatrix (donor) (4 May 1941), Helene-Mayriane (15 Mai 1946) Ruth (9 July 1947) and Joseph Ruben (4 December 1949). In 1944, Chaim was described as being 175 cm tall, small, with short hair. He was a Polish refugee, arriving in Geneva on 9 Oct 1943. Ruchla's parents had been deported to Sobibor on 6 July 1943 shortly before half of the camp was killed in an uprising. Chaim's parents seem to have been discharged from Westerbork holding camp on 12 January 1943. Ruchla's brother Jacob died in Sobibor May 21 1943.
- Accession No.
- 1996.27.29
- Name Access
- Barzilai (Karasin), Beatrice
- Places
- Brussels, Belgium, Europe
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
Images
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