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- CONGREGATION SHAAR HASHOMAYIM MUSEUM AND ARCHIVES 17
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- HEBREW SICK BENEFIT ASSOCIATION 24
- Hebrew Sick Benefit Association Membership Form 24
- JACOBSON, Percy and Joe 2
- JEWISH IMMIGRANT AID SERVICES (JIAS) 15
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- 1 brother - Nathan Hart 1
- 1 brother - Noah, 3 sisters - Leah, Rose, Fannie 1
- 1 brother - Solomon Hart 1
- 2 brothers - Hyman, Montague 1
- 2 sons - Benjamin Nathan, Maurice, 1 daughter - Bertha Master 1
- 3 sons - Joseph Edward, David, Michael 1
- 4 sons - Abraham Solomon, David, Henry, Jacob, 6 daughers - Mrs. I. Isaacs, Mrs. L. Green, Mrs. I. Isaacs, Mrs. R. Landau, Mrs. M.W. Wyzanki, Amelia 1
- 4 sons - Abraham Solomon, David, Henry, Jacob, 6 daughters - Mrs. I. Isaacs, Mrs. L. Green, Mrs. I. Isaacs, Mrs. R. Landau, Mrs. M.W. Wyzanksi, Amelia 1
- ABELSON 1
- ABELSON, Lawrence Balfour 1
Place
- 48 Hamilton Terrace, London, N.W.8, England, England 1
- 81, Wentworth Street, London, E. 1., England, England 1
- Aldborough Hatch (St. Peter) Churchyard 1
- Aldershot Jewish Cemetery 1
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- Bath, Somerset, England 1
- Birmingham (Brandwood End) Jewish Cemetery 1
- Birmingham, Warwickshire, England 2
- Birmingham (Wilton) Jewish Cemetery 1
- Blackpool Cemetery 2
- Blackpool, Lancashire, England 2
- Brookwood Cemetery (Woking, Surrey) 3
Subject
- Central Council for Jewish Refugees - Chaim RAPHAEL (England) 1
- Chaplains correspondence - S. CASS-G. LEVI, London, England 1
- Jacobson, Joe - letters from England June 1941-January 1942 1
- Jacobson, Joe - letters to family, in training (England) May 1941-July 1941 1
- Thank-you notes & parcel acknowledgment to Chaplain 1
- World War I 10
- World War II 87
A cry inside a shunting train
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn47666
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- Print : drawn, printed, embossed : white, black
- Date
- February 1981
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- Print : drawn, printed, embossed : white, black
- Other Title Information
- Original Art, Work on Paper
- Date
- February 1981
- Creator
- -
- Physical Condition
- Excellent
- Language
- English
- Hebrew
- Notes
- 13 pages, unbound. Collection of poems and woodcuts; one per page. The top half of each page have been embossed, with the poem or woodcut printed over top. The poems are written twice on each page, on the left in Hebrew (handwritten) and on the right in English (typewritten). The woodcuts represent different abstract scenes of before, during and after the Holocaust. The first page has a forward written by a Rabbi, the author of the poems and the artist of the woodcuts. Each poem and print have been title and signed in pencil, with the number 37/100 written on each page. Housed in a white folder with an embossed front.
- Accession No.
- 2011X.58.117
- Name Access
- MHMC
- Places
- Cambridge, England, Europe
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
Images
The Form of Prayer
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn44173
- Collection
- CONGREGATION SHAAR HASHOMAYIM MUSEUM AND ARCHIVES
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- textual record
- Physical Description
- Book ; Ht:20.8 cm x W:13 cm : English & Hebrew
- Fonds No.
- SH-01; 418
- Date
- 1971
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- textual record
- Physical Description
- Book ; Ht:20.8 cm x W:13 cm : English & Hebrew
- Other Title Information
- Prayer book
- Date
- 1971
- Publication
- Printed by W. Justins : Sold by Johnson, Parsons and Walker
- Fonds No.
- SH-01
- Item No.
- 418
- Creator
- Author: David Levi
- Physical Condition
- Fair
- Notes
- The form of prayers for the festival of Passover and Pentecost. According to the custom of the Spanish and Portuguese Jews, as read in their synagogues and used in their families. Belonged to Rachel Friedman, wife of Lyon Cohen.
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Congregation Shaar Hashomayim Museum and Archives
Images
CLAPPER, Doreen
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/genealogy91239
- Collection
- JEWISH IMMIGRANT AID SERVICES (JIAS)
- Material Type
- textual record
- Archival / Genealogical
- Genealogy Records
- Collection
- JEWISH IMMIGRANT AID SERVICES (JIAS)
- Material Type
- textual record
- Additional Family
- Edna (sister)
- Date File Opened
- December 10, 1952
- Arrival Date
- December 10, 1952
- Place of Birth
- England
- Record Source
- JIAS Montreal Client Cards
- Fonds No.
- I0037
- Series No.
- R
- File No.
- 05-3123
- Restrictions
- Due to privacy laws, access to further information about this record is restricted. You may contact the Canadian Jewish Archives to learn more.
- Archival / Genealogical
- Genealogy Records
- Repository
- Canadian Jewish Archives
BOARD, Barnet
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/genealogy90988
- Collection
- JEWISH IMMIGRANT AID SERVICES (JIAS)
- Material Type
- textual record
- Archival / Genealogical
- Genealogy Records
- Collection
- JEWISH IMMIGRANT AID SERVICES (JIAS)
- Material Type
- textual record
- Spouse
- Lily
- Children
- Harry, Doreen
- Date File Opened
- June 9, 1952
- Place of Birth
- England
- Record Source
- JIAS Montreal Client Cards
- Fonds No.
- I0037
- Series No.
- R
- File No.
- 04-2114
- Restrictions
- Due to privacy laws, access to further information about this record is restricted. You may contact the Canadian Jewish Archives to learn more.
- Archival / Genealogical
- Genealogy Records
- Repository
- Canadian Jewish Archives
JACKSON, Shalom Michael
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/genealogy90975
- Collection
- JEWISH IMMIGRANT AID SERVICES (JIAS)
- Material Type
- textual record
- Archival / Genealogical
- Genealogy Records
- Collection
- JEWISH IMMIGRANT AID SERVICES (JIAS)
- Material Type
- textual record
- Date File Opened
- June 3, 1952
- Arrival Date
- June 3, 1952
- Place of Birth
- England
- Record Source
- JIAS Montreal Client Cards
- Fonds No.
- I0037
- Series No.
- R
- File No.
- 12-2711
- Restrictions
- Due to privacy laws, access to further information about this record is restricted. You may contact the Canadian Jewish Archives to learn more.
- Archival / Genealogical
- Genealogy Records
- Repository
- Canadian Jewish Archives
RICHLER, Julius
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/genealogy90912
- Collection
- JEWISH IMMIGRANT AID SERVICES (JIAS)
- Material Type
- textual record
- Archival / Genealogical
- Genealogy Records
- Collection
- JEWISH IMMIGRANT AID SERVICES (JIAS)
- Material Type
- textual record
- Date File Opened
- April 20, 1952
- Arrival Date
- April 20, 1952
- Place of Birth
- England
- Record Source
- JIAS Montreal Client Cards
- Fonds No.
- I0037
- Series No.
- R
- File No.
- 20-2303
- Restrictions
- Due to privacy laws, access to further information about this record is restricted. You may contact the Canadian Jewish Archives to learn more.
- Archival / Genealogical
- Genealogy Records
- Repository
- Canadian Jewish Archives
MYERS, Samuel L.
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/genealogy90633
- Collection
- JEWISH IMMIGRANT AID SERVICES (JIAS)
- Material Type
- textual record
- Archival / Genealogical
- Genealogy Records
- Collection
- JEWISH IMMIGRANT AID SERVICES (JIAS)
- Material Type
- textual record
- Spouse
- Doris
- Children
- Yvonne
- Date File Opened
- January 10, 1952
- Place of Birth
- England
- Record Source
- JIAS Montreal Client Cards
- Fonds No.
- I0037
- Series No.
- R
- File No.
- 18-1257
- Restrictions
- Due to privacy laws, access to further information about this record is restricted. You may contact the Canadian Jewish Archives to learn more.
- Archival / Genealogical
- Genealogy Records
- Repository
- Canadian Jewish Archives
DRONZEK, Solomon
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/genealogy10677
- Collection
- JEWISH IMMIGRANT AID SERVICES (JIAS)
- Material Type
- textual record
- Archival / Genealogical
- Genealogy Records
- Collection
- JEWISH IMMIGRANT AID SERVICES (JIAS)
- Material Type
- textual record
- Date File Opened
- November 28, 1951
- Place of Birth
- England
- Record Source
- JIAS Montreal Client Cards
- Fonds No.
- I0037
- Series No.
- R
- File No.
- 07-857
- Restrictions
- Due to privacy laws, access to further information about this record is restricted. You may contact the Canadian Jewish Archives to learn more.
- Archival / Genealogical
- Genealogy Records
- Repository
- Canadian Jewish Archives
MORRIS, Leah
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/genealogy86711
- Collection
- JEWISH IMMIGRANT AID SERVICES (JIAS)
- Material Type
- textual record
- Archival / Genealogical
- Genealogy Records
- Collection
- JEWISH IMMIGRANT AID SERVICES (JIAS)
- Material Type
- textual record
- Date File Opened
- November 23, 1951
- Place of Birth
- England
- Notes
- Nee Stopnitsky
- Record Source
- JIAS Montreal Client Cards
- Fonds No.
- I0037
- Series No.
- R
- File No.
- 18-314
- Restrictions
- Due to privacy laws, access to further information about this record is restricted. You may contact the Canadian Jewish Archives to learn more.
- Archival / Genealogical
- Genealogy Records
- Repository
- Canadian Jewish Archives
BERG, Philip
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/genealogy7801
- Collection
- JEWISH IMMIGRANT AID SERVICES (JIAS)
- Material Type
- textual record
- Archival / Genealogical
- Genealogy Records
- Collection
- JEWISH IMMIGRANT AID SERVICES (JIAS)
- Material Type
- textual record
- Date File Opened
- February 2, 1951
- Arrival Date
- February 2, 1951
- Place of Birth
- England
- Record Source
- JIAS Montreal Client Cards
- Fonds No.
- I0037
- Series No.
- R
- File No.
- 03-3101
- Restrictions
- Due to privacy laws, access to further information about this record is restricted. You may contact the Canadian Jewish Archives to learn more.
- Archival / Genealogical
- Genealogy Records
- Repository
- Canadian Jewish Archives
GREEN, Robert
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/genealogy14034
- Collection
- JEWISH IMMIGRANT AID SERVICES (JIAS)
- Material Type
- textual record
- Archival / Genealogical
- Genealogy Records
- Collection
- JEWISH IMMIGRANT AID SERVICES (JIAS)
- Material Type
- textual record
- Date File Opened
- 09/19/1951
- Arrival Date
- 09/19/1951
- Place of Birth
- England
- Record Source
- JIAS Montreal Client Cards
- Fonds No.
- I0037
- Series No.
- R
- File No.
- 10-2889
- Restrictions
- Due to privacy laws, access to further information about this record is restricted. You may contact the Canadian Jewish Archives to learn more.
- Archival / Genealogical
- Genealogy Records
- Repository
- Canadian Jewish Archives
Envelope
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn51354
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- textual record
- Physical Description
- Envelope : Paper : beige, black ; Ht: 4 in. x W: 8 1/2 in.
- Date
- [Prior to 1950]
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- textual record
- Physical Description
- Envelope : Paper : beige, black ; Ht: 4 in. x W: 8 1/2 in.
- Other Title Information
- Documentary Artifact
- Date
- [Prior to 1950]
- Physical Condition
- Good
- Language
- English
- Notes
- Circular black ink stamp on top right in front Narrative: Donor Emil Kroo is a Holocaust survivor originally from Munkacz (Czech Republic). Emil was in terned in a slave labour cmap in Hungary until 1944. He later met his wife Rosa Magien in Romania. After the war they were in a displaced persons camp in Fürth, Germany. Emil Kroo was the Vice-President of the Central Committee of liberated Jews in the American Zone of Germany. They immigrated to New York in 1950 before settling in Montreal.
- Accession No.
- 2001.17.12
- Name Access
- Kroo, Emil
- Places
- London, England, Europe
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
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LEVENE, Mark
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/genealogy83327
- Collection
- JEWISH IMMIGRANT AID SERVICES (JIAS)
- Material Type
- textual record
- Archival / Genealogical
- Genealogy Records
- Collection
- JEWISH IMMIGRANT AID SERVICES (JIAS)
- Material Type
- textual record
- Spouse
- Clara
- Children
- Sonna
- Date File Opened
- 06/30/1950
- Arrival Date
- 06/30/1950
- Place of Birth
- England
- Record Source
- JIAS Montreal Client Cards
- Fonds No.
- I0037
- Series No.
- R
- File No.
- 15-3208
- Restrictions
- Due to privacy laws, access to further information about this record is restricted. You may contact the Canadian Jewish Archives to learn more.
- Archival / Genealogical
- Genealogy Records
- Repository
- Canadian Jewish Archives
ALEXANDER, Alfred
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/genealogy6827
- Collection
- JEWISH IMMIGRANT AID SERVICES (JIAS)
- Material Type
- textual record
- Archival / Genealogical
- Genealogy Records
- Collection
- JEWISH IMMIGRANT AID SERVICES (JIAS)
- Material Type
- textual record
- Date File Opened
- 12/08/1950
- Arrival Date
- 12/08/1950
- Place of Birth
- England
- Record Source
- JIAS Montreal Client Cards
- Fonds No.
- I0037
- Series No.
- R
- File No.
- 01-1991
- Restrictions
- Due to privacy laws, access to further information about this record is restricted. You may contact the Canadian Jewish Archives to learn more.
- Archival / Genealogical
- Genealogy Records
- Repository
- Canadian Jewish Archives
CRAWFORD, Mark
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/genealogy9946
- Collection
- JEWISH IMMIGRANT AID SERVICES (JIAS)
- Material Type
- textual record
- Archival / Genealogical
- Genealogy Records
- Collection
- JEWISH IMMIGRANT AID SERVICES (JIAS)
- Material Type
- textual record
- Spouse
- Deborrah
- Children
- Leon, Lorretta
- Date File Opened
- May 28, 1948
- Place of Birth
- England
- Record Source
- JIAS Montreal Client Cards
- Fonds No.
- I0037
- Series No.
- R
- File No.
- 06-1097
- Restrictions
- Due to privacy laws, access to further information about this record is restricted. You may contact the Canadian Jewish Archives to learn more.
- Archival / Genealogical
- Genealogy Records
- Repository
- Canadian Jewish Archives
WINNICK, Basil
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/genealogy102311
- Collection
- JEWISH IMMIGRANT AID SERVICES (JIAS)
- Material Type
- textual record
- Archival / Genealogical
- Genealogy Records
- Collection
- JEWISH IMMIGRANT AID SERVICES (JIAS)
- Material Type
- textual record
- Date File Opened
- March 5, 1948
- Arrival Date
- March 5, 1948
- Place of Birth
- England
- Record Source
- JIAS Montreal Client Cards
- Fonds No.
- I0037
- Series No.
- R
- File No.
- 27-110
- Restrictions
- Due to privacy laws, access to further information about this record is restricted. You may contact the Canadian Jewish Archives to learn more.
- Archival / Genealogical
- Genealogy Records
- Repository
- Canadian Jewish Archives
Passport
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn47887
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- textual record
- Physical Description
- Passport : printed, bound, photography : green, black, grey, white, blue ; Ht: 6 in. x W: 4 in.
- Date
- December 19, 1947
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- textual record
- Physical Description
- Passport : printed, bound, photography : green, black, grey, white, blue ; Ht: 6 in. x W: 4 in.
- Other Title Information
- Documentary Artifact
- Date
- December 19, 1947
- Physical Condition
- Good
- Language
- English
- French
- Notes
- 32 pages. Hardcover, cardboard bound with string. Cover is green textured fabric with 2 black stripes going diagonally at the top left corner; the title is printed in black in the centre; back cover is blank. Interior pages are patterned grey with small white text and feint Rs printed in white throughout. Page 3 has a b&w photo of a young man from the shoulders up. Page 4, 7 and 8 have stamped entry visas for Canada and England. The last page has an additional piece of beige paper glued in with printed and handwritten text, as well as 3 purple stamps (see inscriptions). Narrative: This is a Travel document (provisional passport) of Solomon Luger. The document is a result of the Agreement of 15th October, 1946. Allows Solomon Luger to travel in between Canada and the U.K.
- Accession No.
- 2000.31.01
- Name Access
- Luger, Solomon
- Places
- London, England, Europe
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
Certificate of identity
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn76297
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- textual record
- Physical Description
- Certificate of identity : Paper : Printed, Handwritten : Ink : B&W ; Ht: 32,5 cm x W: 20,5 cm
- Date
- January 13, 1947-March 07, 1947
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- textual record
- Physical Description
- Certificate of identity : Paper : Printed, Handwritten : Ink : B&W ; Ht: 32,5 cm x W: 20,5 cm
- Other Title Information
- Documentary Artifact
- Date
- January 13, 1947-March 07, 1947
- Physical Condition
- Good
- Language
- English
- Notes
- Folder, double-sided. 1 large page folded vertically in centre. First page is numbered page 3, indicates that document is part of a certificate of identity. This part contains visas and endorsements. Inner pages are blank. On back page, numbered page 2, are a series of stamps and handwritten endorsements relating to an immigration in February-March 1947 from the United Kingdom to Canada. Narrative: Document was donated by Eudice Bauer, the wife of Gustave Bauer. This document was part of the certificate of identity used by Gustave's mother, Anna Rosemann Bauer, when she immigrated from the United Kingdom to Canada in 1947 to join her son. 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.49.24
- Name Access
- Bauer, Eudice
- Places
- London, England, Europe
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
Images
The Children's Hagadah
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn44180
- Collection
- CONGREGATION SHAAR HASHOMAYIM MUSEUM AND ARCHIVES
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- textual record
- Physical Description
- Book ; Ht:21.2 cm x W:13.7 cm : English & Hebrew
- Fonds No.
- SH-01; 430
- Date
- [ca. 1948]
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- textual record
- Physical Description
- Book ; Ht:21.2 cm x W:13.7 cm : English & Hebrew
- Date
- [ca. 1948]
- Publication
- Shapiro, Vallentine and Co.
- Fonds No.
- SH-01
- Item No.
- 430
- Physical Condition
- In need of conservation
- Notes
- "The Children's Hagadah - A new edition of the Hagadah specially prepared for children, and illustrated with moving pictures." With a revised English translation of the text by Rev. A. P. Mendes. Illustrations reproduced from original engravings. 64 pages
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Congregation Shaar Hashomayim Museum and Archives
Documents
Images
Letter
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn59395
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- textual record
- Physical Description
- Letter : Paper : Typewritten : Ink : Grey, black ; Ht: 25 cm x W: 20 cm
- Date
- January 29, 1946
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- textual record
- Physical Description
- Letter : Paper : Typewritten : Ink : Grey, black ; Ht: 25 cm x W: 20 cm
- Other Title Information
- Documentary Artifact
- Date
- January 29, 1946
- Physical Condition
- Good
- Language
- English
- Notes
- Two-sided page, folded horizontally and vertically, back functions as Air Mail envelope, stamp T.R., instructions for folding on creases, reverse contains typewritten letter. From the Jewish Refugee Committee to Isaac Herbert Isselbacher. Congratulates Isaac on achieving Canadian citizenship and states that the return of his emigration fund will be dealt with by a separate department of the organization. Narrative: Isaac Herbert Isselbacher was born 1919-11-20 in Isselbach, Germany. His brother was Helmut Isselbacher, born 1921-12-20. Their father was Jacob Isselbacher, born 1883-08-05. They had an uncle and aunt, David and Betty Loewenstein, who lived in New York City with their two children. Isaac left Germany on 1939-07-29, hoping to join his relatives in NYC. He only had the time to get to London, England before the war broke out and started working in a factory. He was arrested at his workplace as an ‘enemy alien’ and sent to Canada for internment in 1940. Isaac was interned in Camp N in Sherbrooke, Quebec. He was drafted into the Works Program Division for woodworking and net-making. In 1940, he received a last letter from his parents which suggested their imminent deportation. After his release, circa November 1942, Isaac worked as a locksmith. He married Fanny Azeff on 1943-12-26 at the Bnai Jacob synagogue in Montreal. Fanny was born on 1921-12-23 in Canada, the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Harry Azeff. Isaac was naturalized as a Canadian citizen on 1946-06-08. Fanny was naturalized on 1946-08-30 (she had lost her citizenship by marrying Isaac). Isaac’s brother, Helmut Isselbacher, was deported with Transport XXII A from Dossin casern in Mechelen (Malines), Belgium to Auschwitz Birkenau, Poland on 1943-09-20. Of the 2,450 people on the transport, 100 men were selected to work –including Helmut- and the remainder prisoners were gassed. Helmut was made to work as a welder, and was soon fitting new pipes for the gas chamber. He suffered a nervous breakdown as a result. As he was a valued welder, he was transferred to a labour camp in Upper Silesia (Poland) where he remained for two years. As the Russian army advanced, the 6,000 prisoners of this camp were evacuated by train. Helmut remembered being forced to march as the other prisoners died from exhaustion. When liberation was announced, the survivors travelled by ship from Luebeck, Germany, to Sweden with the aid of the Red Cross. After recovery, Helmut decided to remain in Sweden as a welder. Upon learning of his brother’s survival, Helmut travelled to New York in April 1946 to meet with him and their Loewenstein relatives. Afterwards, Helmut travelled to Canada bringing with him a washing machine and bras as late wedding presents for his brother and Fanny. By 1946-08-12, their parents were presumed dead and the two sons inquired into their estate. They received a deed for the land and travelled to the estate to discover that the current owner of their house was their old maid and her son had become the town mayor. Various disputes arose with the current ‘owners’ who believed the Isselbacher family dead. Isaac wished to discuss a settlement, but the mayor’s mother –not realizing Fanny understood German- called the neighbours at work to warn them not to come home as the Isselbacher sons had resurfaced. Payment for the land had reportedly been sent to Israel, though no documentation could be provided.
- Accession No.
- 1999.1.20
- Name Access
- Issley, Jason
- Places
- London, England, Europe
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
Images
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