place:"Camp B, Canada, North America" found 3 records - The Canadian Jewish Heritage Network

Notes: 64 pages, green flexible cardboard cover, bound with staples. Notebook issued by the Department of Mines and Resources Canada with information on preventing forest fires, Canadian National Parks, first aid, weights and measures, etc. Pages 27-28 contain notes taken by Gustave Bauer: some information on blankets from Simpson's on page 27, and the address of Mr. Jack Wechsler ?, c/o Palca Company, Spadina Avenue, Toronto, on page 28. Pages 29-54 are blank. Pages 64 and inside back cover contain calendars for the years 1939-40. Narrative: This document was donated by Eudice Bauer, the wife of Gustave Bauer. It was issued to him in 1940 during his internment in Camp B, New Brunswick, where he worked in the forest. Gustave was born in 1924 in Hamburg, Germany, and was on vacation in Denmark with his mother Anna and brother Werner when the Nuremberg Laws of 1935 were passed. They decided not to return to Germany, and went to stay with Anne's sister in Brussels, Belgium. Gustave's father Manfred was arrested for smuggling money out of Germany and spent the next two years in prison. Manfred joined his family in Brussels when he was released from prison in 1937. In 1940, immediately before Germany occupied Belgium, all German males born before 1924 were ordered to register. Manfred and Werner were sent to France, where they were interned. On their way to France to join them, Gustave and his mother were arrested and sent to England on the last boat to leave Belgium before it was occupied. In England, Gustave spent time in Folkestone, Pentonville Prison, Kempton Park, and Douglas, Isle of Man. He was in England from May 19 to July 4, 1940. IOn July 4, 1940 he was sent to Canada on the S.S. Sobiesky with other German nationals as prisoners of war.He was in Camp T, in Trois-Rivières, Quebec, from July 15 to August 12, 1940. He was thenmoved to Camp B, in New Brunswick, and then in 1941 was sent with other Jewish internees to Camp I, Île aux Noix, Quebec. He was sponsored for release in 1942, and his mother joined him in Canada in 1947. His father was deported from Drancy to Majdanek in 1943. It is unknown what happened to Gustave's brother Werner once he was sent to France. Neither man survived the war.

Accession No.: 2011X.49.11

Name Access: Bauer, Eudice

Places: Camp B, Canada, North America

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Repository: Montreal Holocaust Museum

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Military memorandum

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Collection: Montreal Holocaust Museum

Description Level: Item

Material Type: textual record

Physical Description: Military memorandum : Paper : Typed : Ink : Beige, Black ; Ht: 27,5 cm x W: 21,5 cm

Date: August 13, 1940

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Collection: Montreal Holocaust Museum

Description Level: Item

Material Type: textual record

Physical Description: Military memorandum : Paper : Typed : Ink : Beige, Black ; Ht: 27,5 cm x W: 21,5 cm

Other Title Information: Documentary Artifact

Date: August 13, 1940

Physical Condition: Good

Language: German; English

Notes: 1 page, single-sided. Folded once horizontally. Document issued August 13, 1940 in Camp B, New Brunswick. Lists 7 rules for prisoners of war in the internment camp. Issued by Captain W.S.P. Gow, Camp Adjutant. Narrative: This document was donated by Eudice Bauer, the wife of Gustave Bauer. Gustave was born in 1924 in Hamburg, Germany, and was on vacation in Denmark with his mother Anna and brother Werner when the Nuremberg Laws of 1935 were passed. They decided not to return to Germany, and went to stay with Anne's sister in Brussels, Belgium. Gustave's father Manfred was arrested for smuggling money out of Germany and spent the next two years in prison. Manfred joined his family in Brussels when he was released from prison in 1937. In 1940, immediately before Germany occupied Belgium, all German males born before 1924 were ordered to register. Manfred and Werner were sent to France, where they were interned. On their way to France to join them, Gustave and his mother were arrested and sent to England on the last boat to leave Belgium before it was occupied. In England, Gustave spent time in Folkestone, Pentonville Prison, Kempton Park, and Douglas, Isle of Man. He was in England from May 19 to July 4, 1940. IOn July 4, 1940 he was sent to Canada on the S.S. Sobiesky with other German nationals as prisoners of war.He was in Camp T, in Trois-Rivières, Quebec, from July 15 to August 12, 1940. He was thenmoved to Camp B, in New Brunswick, and then in 1941 was sent with other Jewish internees to Camp I, Île aux Noix, Quebec. He was sponsored for release in 1942, and his mother joined him in Canada in 1947. His father was deported from Drancy to Majdanek in 1943. It is unknown what happened to Gustave's brother Werner once he was sent to France. Neither man survived the war.

Accession No.: 2011X.49.04

Name Access: Bauer, Eudice

Places: Camp B, Canada, North America

Archival / Genealogical: Archival Descriptions

Repository: Montreal Holocaust Museum

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Notebook

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Collection: Montreal Holocaust Museum

Description Level: Item

Material Type: textual record

Physical Description: Notebook : Paper : Printed, Handwritten : Ink : Beige, Blue ; Ht: 7 7/8 in. x W: 6 3/8 in.

Date: May 19, 1940-September 16, 1940

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Collection: Montreal Holocaust Museum

Description Level: Item

Material Type: textual record

Physical Description: Notebook : Paper : Printed, Handwritten : Ink : Beige, Blue ; Ht: 7 7/8 in. x W: 6 3/8 in.

Other Title Information: Documentary Artifact

Date: May 19, 1940-September 16, 1940

Physical Condition: Good

Language: English; German; French

Notes: 13 lined pages, double-sided, with 1 loose page folded in half and stapled to front inside cover. Soft blue cover, bound with staples. Document is an exercise book. 'Adelene Exercise Book 1D' printed on cover, with insignia of a triangular stone covered in vines. Loose page stapled to inside cover is a handwritten copy of 'RECORD OF MALE INTERNEES in internment camp' form, filled out by Gustave Bauer, dated September 16, 1940. Form concludes with section in which Gustave requests release from internment in order to continue training in his trade of cabinet-making. The rest of the notebook contains handwritten lyrics to songs in German and English, all relating to internment. The final section is a handwritten text for a cabaret titled 'Ein Brief Eines Internierten' (A Letter of Interned [trad.]), credited to Eddy Klein. Inside back cover contains log of Gustave's places and dates of internment, and travel in England and Canada. On back cover, arithmetical tables are printed. Narrative: Document was donated by Eudice Bauer, the wife of Gustave Bauer. Gustave was born in 1924 in Hamburg, Germany, and was on vacation in Denmark with his mother Anna and brother Werner when the Nuremberg Laws of 1935 were passed. They decided not to return to Germany, and went to stay with Anne's sister in Brussels, Belgium. Gustave's father Manfred was arrested for smuggling money out of Germany and spent the next two years in prison. Manfred joined his family in Brussels when he was released from prison in 1937. In 1940, immediately before Germany occupied Belgium, all German males born before 1924 were ordered to register. Manfred and Werner were sent to France, where they were interned. On their way to France to join them, Gustave and his mother were arrested and sent to England on the last boat to leave Belgium before it was occupied. In England, Gustave spent time in Folkestone, Pentonville Prison, Kempton Park, and Douglas, Isle of Man. He was in England from May 19 to July 4, 1940. IOn July 4, 1940 he was sent to Canada on the S.S. Sobiesky with other German nationals as prisoners of war.He was in Camp T, in Trois-Rivières, Quebec, from July 15 to August 12, 1940. He was thenmoved to Camp B, in New Brunswick, and then in 1941 was sent with other Jewish internees to Camp I, Île aux Noix, Quebec. He was sponsored for release in 1942, and his mother joined him in Canada in 1947. His father was deported from Drancy to Majdanek in 1943. It is unknown what happened to Gustave's brother Werner once he was sent to France. Neither man survived the war.

Accession No.: 2011X.49.20

Name Access: Bauer, Eudice

Places: Camp B, Canada, North America

Archival / Genealogical: Archival Descriptions

Repository: Montreal Holocaust Museum