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Czernowitz
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn51375
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- textual record
- Physical Description
- Postcard : Paper : Ink : Black, White, Green ; Ht: 9 cm x W: 13 cm
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- textual record
- Physical Description
- Postcard : Paper : Ink : Black, White, Green ; Ht: 9 cm x W: 13 cm
- Other Title Information
- Documentary Artifact
- Physical Condition
- Poor
- Language
- German
- Notes
- The picture in front of the postcard shows the Jewish National house in Czernowitz, to the left of the house in the foreground is a statue of a man, surrounded by a stone fence. On the back is a stamp from the Austrian-Hungarian Empire with a portrait of Kaiser Franz Joseph, worth 5 Heller. Narrative: This postcard was written by Bernhard Kissman (Donor's father) to his fiancee Fritzi Winter (Donor's mother) who lived at that time with her parents in Tescheutz, Bukowina. They got married in July 1913. Bernhard Kissman worked at various places in forestry. Postcards between them were written daily, often a letter followed.
- Accession No.
- 1990.111.112
- Name Access
- Lisak (Kissman), Thea
- Places
- Chernivtsi, Ukraine, Europe
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
Images
Dr. Ignaz Zollschan
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn51381
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- textual record
- Physical Description
- Postcard : Paper : Ink : Black, White, Red, Green ; Ht: 13 cm x W: 9 cm
- Date
- February 12, 1913
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- textual record
- Physical Description
- Postcard : Paper : Ink : Black, White, Red, Green ; Ht: 13 cm x W: 9 cm
- Other Title Information
- Documentary Artifact
- Date
- February 12, 1913
- Physical Condition
- Poor
- Language
- German
- Notes
- The front there is an illustration of Dr. Ignaz Zollschan. He is wearing a suit and tie. On the back is a stamp from the Austrian-Hungarian Empire with a portrait of Kaiser Franz Joseph, worth 5 Heller. Dr. Ignaz Zollschan was a Jewish anthropologist who discussed ideas of the Jews as a race. He believed that the Jews were a "mixed race" of people whose racial ancestry came from the Semitic and Hittite peoples of the ancient Near East. Narrative: This postcard was written by Bernhard Kissman (Donor's father) to his fiancee Fritzi Winter (Donor's mother) who lived at that time with her parents in Tescheutz, Bukowina. They got married in July 1913. Bernhard Kissman worked at various places in forestry. Postcards between them were written daily, often a letter followed. Dr. Ignaz Zollschan was a Jewish anthropologist who discussed ideas of the Jews as a race. He believed that the Jews were a "mixed race" of people whose racial ancestry came from the Semitic and Hittite peoples of the ancient Near East.
- Accession No.
- 1990.111.122
- Name Access
- Lisak (Kissman), Thea
- Places
- Chernivtsi, Ukraine, Europe
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
Images
Letter
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn51407
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- textual record
- Physical Description
- Letter : Paper : Ink : Black, White ; Ht: 11 in. x W: 8 1/2 in.
- Date
- April 1914
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- textual record
- Physical Description
- Letter : Paper : Ink : Black, White ; Ht: 11 in. x W: 8 1/2 in.
- Other Title Information
- Documentary Artifact
- Date
- April 1914
- Physical Condition
- Good
- Language
- German
- Notes
- 1 page double-sided, with Dampfsage letter head across the top of the page. Narrative: This letter was written by Fritzi Winter (later Kissman) to Bernhard Kissman (Seide Leies). They got married in July 1913. Bernhard Kissman worked at various places in forestry.
- Accession No.
- 1990.111.31
- Name Access
- Lisak (Kissman), Thea
- Places
- Chernivtsi, Ukraine, Europe
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
Images
Matzah cover
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn51198
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- object
- Physical Description
- Matzah cover : Sewn : Maroon, Green, Purple, Red, Yellow ; Ht: 16,5 in. x W: 12,5 in.
- Date
- 1851-1860
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- object
- Physical Description
- Matzah cover : Sewn : Maroon, Green, Purple, Red, Yellow ; Ht: 16,5 in. x W: 12,5 in.
- Other Title Information
- Ceremonial Artifact
- Date
- 1851-1860
- Physical Condition
- Good
- Language
- Hebrew
- Notes
- Circular shape, embroidered with fabric flowers, cross-stitched with floss. Border is fringed. Narrative: Handcrafted from Czernowitz (today Chernivtsi), Bukovina. Name of the donor' great-great grandmother, Cohen, is embroidered on the bottom flap. The matzah cover has been handed down through generations. The mother of the donor, Suzie Rosenblatt (nee Mier) kept it hidden in the Bershad concentration camp in Transnistria (Ukraine). The donor's brother, Jacob Wardi, was also in Bershad. Donor Regina Stiglitz (Rosenblatt) was in a different work camp called Muraffa. The family was reunited after the war and emigrated to Canada in 1962.
- Accession No.
- 1990.21.11
- Name Access
- Stiglitz Rosenblatt, Regina
- Places
- Chernivtsi, Ukraine, Europe
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
Images
Postcard
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn75208
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- textual record
- Physical Description
- Postcard : Paper : Ink : Black, White, Red ; Ht: 13 cm x W: 9 cm
- Date
- June 1913
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- textual record
- Physical Description
- Postcard : Paper : Ink : Black, White, Red ; Ht: 13 cm x W: 9 cm
- Other Title Information
- Documentary Artifact
- Date
- June 1913
- Physical Condition
- Poor
- Language
- German
- Notes
- The front has an illustration of a men folding a letter on the left of him is a flying carrier pigeon. In the background to the right is a picture of a woman with a carrier pigeon. Narrative: This postcard was written by Bernhard Kissman (Donor's father) to his fiancee Fritzi Winter (Donor's mother) who lived at that time with her parents in Tescheutz, Bukowina. They got married in July 1913. Bernhard Kissman worked at various places in forestry. Postcards between them were written daily, often a letter followed.
- Accession No.
- 1990.111.117
- Name Access
- Lisak (Kissman), Thea
- Places
- Chernivtsi, Ukraine, Europe
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
Images
Rischon le Zion
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn51380
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- textual record
- Physical Description
- Postcard : Paper : Ink : Black, White, Red, Green ; Ht: 9 cm x W: 13 cm
- Date
- February 25, 1913
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- textual record
- Physical Description
- Postcard : Paper : Ink : Black, White, Red, Green ; Ht: 9 cm x W: 13 cm
- Other Title Information
- Documentary Artifact
- Date
- February 25, 1913
- Physical Condition
- Good
- Language
- German
- Notes
- The front has an illustration of a street with camels in Rishon le Zion. On the back is a stamp from the Austrian-Hungarian Empire with a portrait of Kaiser Franz Joseph, worth 5 Heller. Narrative: This postcard was written by Bernhard Kissman (Donor's father) to his fiancee Fritzi Winter (Donor's mother) who lived at that time with her parents in Tescheutz, Bukowina. They got married in July 1913. Bernhard Kissman worked at various places in forestry. Postcards between them were written daily, often a letter followed.
- Accession No.
- 1990.111.118
- Name Access
- Lisak (Kissman), Thea
- Places
- Chernivtsi, Ukraine, Europe
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
Images
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