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German POWs in Canadian Internment Camp Farnham, Quebec.
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn90348
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- Photograph : Paper : photograph : b&w ; Ht: 8,5 cm x W: 12 cm
- Date
- October 1945
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- Photograph : Paper : photograph : b&w ; Ht: 8,5 cm x W: 12 cm
- Other Title Information
- Documentary Artifact
- Date
- October 1945
- Physical Condition
- Excellent
- Language
- English
- Notes
- b&w, outdoors, German prisoners of war standing in front of wire fence, next to a car. Some wearing long coats, all wearing cap, on ground are baskets of potatoes. Narrative: Following the Canadian war declaration on 1939-09-03, more than a dozen of internment camps were set up across the country. Camp No. 40 opened in Farnham, Quebec on 1940-10-11. In 1942-12, the camp was used to contain German officers as the Geneva Convention stated that enemy officers were to be held in the different facilities as other ranks. Over 200 POWs were held in Camp Farnham. After the war, in 1946, the prisoners were repatriated.
- Accession No.
- 2011X.136.09
- Name Access
- Fleischman, R.E.
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
Images
POW Hans Jay and reporters
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn90349
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- Photograph : Paper : photograph : b&w ; Ht: 12,2 cm x W: 8,6 cm
- Date
- 1945
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- Photograph : Paper : photograph : b&w ; Ht: 12,2 cm x W: 8,6 cm
- Other Title Information
- Documentary Artifact
- Date
- 1945
- Physical Condition
- Excellent
- Language
- English
- Notes
- b&w, man in uniform talking to reporters, one from the Gazette, Hans Jay was in charge of the POWs in the camp, he was in charge of the troops occupying Paris, was not a war criminal, wanted to settle in Montreal and breed horses Narrative: Following the Canadian war declaration on 1939-09-03, more than a dozen of internment camps were set up across the country. Camp No. 40 opened in Farnham, Quebec on 1940-10-11. In 1942-12, the camp was used to contain German officers as the Geneva Convention stated that enemy officers were to be held in the different facilities as other ranks. Over 200 POWs were held in Camp Farnham. After the war, in 1946, the prisoners were repatriated.
- Accession No.
- 2011X.136.10
- Name Access
- Fleischman, R.E.
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
Images
Under Consideration
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn51328
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- Drawing : Ht: 10 5/8 in. x W: 15 in.
- Date
- 1942
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- Drawing : Ht: 10 5/8 in. x W: 15 in.
- Other Title Information
- Original Art, Work on Paper
- Date
- 1942
- Creator
- 0
- Physical Condition
- Good
- Language
- English
- Notes
- Ink and watercolour cartoon. Outdoor scene, shows men kept in a wire cage on wheels drawn by horse. They are in the fields and being taken in direction of Farnham. An armed guard with a riffle accompany them while local residents ans cows look on. Narrative: Purchased by Kurt Anstreicher M.D. in internment camp. Found in his personal papers after his death in January 2002. Kurt Anstreicher, M.D was born in 1911 in Austria and studied medicine at the medical school at the University of Vienna. He was working there when the Germans annexed Austria and was forced to leave his position because of anti-Jewish legislation. He found refuge in Great-Britain but was made prisoner there once the war started. He was sent to Canada to be interned at the Farnhman camp in the province of Quebec. In Farnham he became the camp doctor. It is believed he acquired these drawings directly from the artist Norbert Berstl while in Farnham.
- Accession No.
- 2011X.66.01
- Name Access
- Anstreicher, Kurt M.
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
Images
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