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Le Péril Juif: Le Règne d'Israel chez les Anglo-Saxons
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn47609
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- textual record
- Physical Description
- Book : printed, bound : beige, black, mustard ; Ht: 18,6 cm x W: 12 cm
- Date
- 1921
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- textual record
- Physical Description
- Book : printed, bound : beige, black, mustard ; Ht: 18,6 cm x W: 12 cm
- Other Title Information
- Documentary Artifact
- Date
- 1921
- Creator
- -
- Physical Condition
- Good
- Language
- English
- French
- Notes
- 271 pages, soft cover, paper and string bound, mustard-coloured cover. Spine has book information printed on it in 5 sections - author, title, price and editor information, back cover has a list of other publictions by the editor. Interior pages are beige and contain text.
- Accession No.
- 2011X.58.25
- Name Access
- MHMC
- Places
- Paris, France, Europe
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
Images
Le Peril Judeo-Maconnique: Les "Protocols" de 1901
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn47611
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- textual record
- Physical Description
- Book : printed, bound : beige, black ; Ht: 25,5 cm x W: 6,5 cm
- Date
- 1922
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- textual record
- Physical Description
- Book : printed, bound : beige, black ; Ht: 25,5 cm x W: 6,5 cm
- Other Title Information
- Documentary Artifact
- Date
- 1922
- Creator
- -
- Physical Condition
- Good
- Language
- French
- Notes
- 335 pages, paper bound book; beige cover and interior. Interior pages consist of text. Narrative: Revue internationale des sociétés secrètes (International Journal of Secret Societies [RISS]) was a French journal founded and directed by Mgr. Jouin in 1912. The magazine was Catholic tradionalist published by the Free-Catholic League. It was anti-Masonic and anti-Jewish, and was devoted to denouncing plots developed by secret societies, so-called Judeo-occultists. Publication of the magazine stopped in 1939.
- Accession No.
- 2011X.58.32
- Name Access
- MHMC
- Places
- Paris, France, Europe
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
Images
Identification certificate
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn78449
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- textual record
- Physical Description
- Identification certificate : Paper : printed, handwritten : Ink : off-white, black, purple, red ; Ht: 24,4 cm x W: 7,5 cm
- Date
- December 01, 1926
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- textual record
- Physical Description
- Identification certificate : Paper : printed, handwritten : Ink : off-white, black, purple, red ; Ht: 24,4 cm x W: 7,5 cm
- Other Title Information
- Documentary Artifact
- Date
- December 01, 1926
- Physical Condition
- Poor
- Language
- French
- Notes
- 1 page. One-sided official document issued by the Minister of Justice. On the t.l. is a purple fiscal stamp of 3 Francs. The document states the french nationality of Ida Wolnowicz. Narrative: Ida Wolnowicz was born in Paris on 1925-04-20. She was the daughter of Szypa Wolnowicz, born 1894-10-03 in Warsaw (Poland) and Rojza Goldmann born 1892-09-20 in Kaluszyn (Poland). Ida's parents and her brother Lejb Nuta Wolnowicz were arrested in Paris on 1942-07-16 and sent to Drancy internment camp (France). They were deported to Auschwitz on 1942-07-22 where they were killed. Ida Wolnowicz survived the Holocaust and came back to Paris where she married Uszer Kaszemacher and adopted his son Jacques Kaszemacher.
- Accession No.
- 2014.24.21
- Name Access
- Kasma, Puck
- Places
- Paris, France, Europe
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
Images
Dictionnaire: Français-Allemand / Deutsch-Französisch
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn47742
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- book
- Physical Description
- Book : printed, bound : red, black, beige ; Ht: 13,6 cm x W: 10,5 cm
- Date
- 1932
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- book
- Physical Description
- Book : printed, bound : red, black, beige ; Ht: 13,6 cm x W: 10,5 cm
- Other Title Information
- Documentary Artifact
- Date
- 1932
- Physical Condition
- Good
- Language
- German
- French
- Notes
- 791 pages. Hardcover, cardboard bound with string. Cover is alternating black and red veritical stripes, with the title printed in white at the top, in front of a red rectangle with a black border; the title is also printed horizontally on the spine, with a floral motif at the bottom. Interior pages are beige, written in dictionary format, with the introduction in French.
- Accession No.
- 2002.45.01
- Name Access
- Lichtenstein, Sarah Sybill
- Places
- Paris, France, Europe
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
Images
Chaja Kaszemacher
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn78386
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- Photograph : Paper : printed : Ink : B&W ; Ht: 9,6 cm x W: 7,1 cm
- Date
- 1932
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- Photograph : Paper : printed : Ink : B&W ; Ht: 9,6 cm x W: 7,1 cm
- Other Title Information
- Documentary Artifact
- Date
- 1932
- Physical Condition
- Excellent
- Notes
- B&W photograph. Outdoors. A young woman is laying in the grass with a tennis racquet. She is wearing a white outfit with a black belt. The photograph shows her head and torso. A hand is placed on her shoulder. Narrative: Chaja Kaszemacher, nee Bajwelcwajg, was born in Warsaw, Poland. She lived in Paris where she gave birth to Jacques and Janine Kaszemacher. She died on 1943-10-26 in the Drancy transit camp near Paris, France.
- Accession No.
- 2014.24.01
- Name Access
- Kasma, Puck
- Places
- Paris, France, Europe
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
Images
Postcard
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn48289
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- textual record
- Physical Description
- Postcard : cardboard : beige, black blue, purple ; Ht: 9 cm x W: 13,8 cm
- Date
- 1933
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- textual record
- Physical Description
- Postcard : cardboard : beige, black blue, purple ; Ht: 9 cm x W: 13,8 cm
- Other Title Information
- Documentary Artifact
- Date
- 1933
- Physical Condition
- Good
- Language
- French
- Notes
- Double-sided postcard. Front shows a blue and white photograph of the port of Palavas-les-Flots. On top right is a purple postage stamp showing a woman representing peace. This postage stamp was released in 1932. On back is a handwritten personal letter written in black ink. Narrative: The Zilberbogen were a Jewish family originally from Warsaw (Poland). Mother Chana and daughters Elzbieta (born 1933) and Celinka (born 1937) moved to Belgium in 1939. The father, Szygmundt, an engineer, stayed in Poland. During the Second World War, the mother and daughters were first sent to Brens camp and then to Rivesaltes camp in the South of France before being released. Chana was then hospitalized and spent the war hidden in a Sanatorium in Mazamet from 1940 to 1947. Elzbieta and Celinka were hidden in various locations in the South of France, including a farm and different children's homes run by OSE. Szygmundt was killed in Poland. Chana and her daughters went back to live in Belgium after Liberation until immigrating to Canada in 1951.
- Accession No.
- 2012.15.164
- Name Access
- Peltier, Cécile
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
Images
Portrait of Arthur Ber
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn76682
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- Photograph : Ht: 14,6 cm x W: 9,8 cm
- Date
- 1933
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- Photograph : Ht: 14,6 cm x W: 9,8 cm
- Other Title Information
- Documentary Artifact
- Date
- 1933
- Physical Condition
- Poor
- Language
- English
- French
- Notes
- B&w photograph with a white border. A portrait of a young man wearing a dark coloured, French army uniform. The color of the man's jacket has the number 150 marked on each corner. The man in the photograph is Arthur Ber. Narrative: Arthur Ber was born on March 3, 1920 in Warsaw. He was the son of Judka-Leib Beer and Liba Gudrot. He was the donor's uncle.
- Accession No.
- 2012.20.03
- Name Access
- Allen, Stéphane John
- Places
- Paris, France, Europe
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
Images
Wedding group portrait
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn78434
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- Photograph : Paper : printed : Ink : B&W ; Ht: 15,8 cm x W: 11,7 cm
- Date
- April 29, 1933
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- Photograph : Paper : printed : Ink : B&W ; Ht: 15,8 cm x W: 11,7 cm
- Other Title Information
- Documentary Artifact
- Date
- April 29, 1933
- Physical Condition
- Excellent
- Language
- French
- Notes
- B&W photograph without borders. Indoors. Wedding portrait. Eight adults and a baby sitting on a woman's lap on the left. Uszer and Chaja Kaszemacher are the first couple on the t.l. Narrative: Uszer Kaszemacher and Chaja Kaszemacher, maiden name Bajwelcwajg, lived in Paris where she gave birth to Jacques and Jeannine Kaszemacher.
- Accession No.
- 2014.24.02
- Name Access
- Kasma, Puck
- Places
- Paris, France, Europe
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
Images
Jacques Kasma's parents
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn78435
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- Photograph : Paper : printed : Ink : B&W ; Ht: 13,5 cm x W: 8,2 cm
- Date
- May 14, 1933
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- Photograph : Paper : printed : Ink : B&W ; Ht: 13,5 cm x W: 8,2 cm
- Other Title Information
- Documentary Artifact
- Date
- May 14, 1933
- Physical Condition
- Excellent
- Notes
- B&W photograph with borders. Indoors. Portrait of three women and a man. Jacques Kasma's, Uszer and Chaja Kaszemacher, are in the middle. Printed on a postal card from "Ateliers Jérome". Narrative: Uszer Kaszemacher and Chaja Kaszemacher, maiden name Bajwelcwajg, lived in Paris where she gave birth to Jacques and Jeannine Kaszemacher.
- Accession No.
- 2014.24.03
- Name Access
- Kasma, Puck
- Places
- Paris, France, Europe
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
Images
Marguerite Elias’ uncle and father in Paris
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn90286
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- Photograph : Paper : Printed : photograph : b&w ; Ht: 13.4 cm x W: 8.4 cm
- Date
- 1933-1935
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- Photograph : Paper : Printed : photograph : b&w ; Ht: 13.4 cm x W: 8.4 cm
- Other Title Information
- Documentary Artifact
- Date
- 1933-1935
- Physical Condition
- Good
- Notes
- White border. Formal studio portrait. A man in military uniform stands next to a man seated on a stool wearing a suit. The man standing has his arm around the seated man. The seated man is the donor's father Maurice, the man in uniform is his brother Leon. Narrative: Maurice Elias volunteered for the French Army on September 11, 1939 although he was not a French citizen. On March 20, 1940 he joined the 212 Infantry Division and was demobilized in 1941. The family received his cap and armband after liberation. They had been left behind when he was demobilized. He owned a store since 1933, which was assigned an administrator. He was taken on August 20, 1941 in the first round-up of Paris Jews (mostly professionals and intellectuals). He was picked up at 6:30 AM by 3 French men and taken to Drancy. Transferred to Compiegne because they thought that he was a Communist since he spoke Russian. On February 27, 1942 he was deported to Auschwitz and killed on April 19, 1942.
- Accession No.
- 2000.34.05
- Name Access
- Elias, Marguerite
- Places
- Paris, France, Europe
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
Images
Jacques Kasma
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn78436
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- Photograph : Paper : printed : Ink : B&W ; Ht: 13,6 cm x W: 8,5 cm
- Date
- March 11, 1936
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- Photograph : Paper : printed : Ink : B&W ; Ht: 13,6 cm x W: 8,5 cm
- Other Title Information
- Documentary Artifact
- Date
- March 11, 1936
- Physical Condition
- Excellent
- Language
- French
- Notes
- B&W photograph with white border. Indoors. Portrait of Jacques Kasma when he was six months old. He is dressed in a winter outfit with boots, coat and a hat. Printed on a postcard from "Ateliers Jérome". Narrative: Jacques Kasma was born Jacques Kaszemacher on 1935-09-04 in the 10th arrondissement of Paris (France). His father was Uszer Hersz Kaszemacher, also known as Henric Kasmacher, born on 1913-04-05 in Parczew (Poland). His mother was Chaja Sura Bajwelcwajg, born 1915-05-19 in Warsaw (Poland). Jacques had a younger sister, Jeannine, born in 1937. In 1940, Henri Kasmacher was a driver in the French army. He was captured by the German armed forces in Saint-Die-des-Vosges (France) and was deported to the forced labour camp of Brunswiek, a subcamp of Neuengamme concentration camp ( Germany). In 1943, Chaja Bajwelcwajg was arrested and interned at the Drancy transit camp (France). She died in Drancy on 1943-09-02. Jacques was hidden in Normandy (France) during the war. After Liberation, he spent time in an orphanage ran by the OSE in Le Vésinet. He met Marcel Marceau, a famous French mime, who taught him his art. Henri Kasmacher survived the war and came back to France and remarried to Ida Wolnowicz. In 1956, Jacques Kasma settled in Montreal (Canada) where he pursued an artistic career. He acted as a mime named Tit-Bo on the children's television program "La Boîte à Surprise". He worked at the National Film Board as an editor and director. He also worked with the filmmaker Gilles Groulx. He went back to France to fulfill his military service obligations and moved back to Montreal in 1960. He was part of the Douglas hospital psychiatric research team for 20 years.
- Accession No.
- 2014.24.04
- Name Access
- Kasma, Puck
- Places
- Paris, France, Europe
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
Images
Paris - L'Hotel-de-ville
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn50327
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- textual record
- Physical Description
- Postcard : Paper : Ink : black, beige , blue, green, grey ; Ht: 3,5 in. x W: 5,5 in.
- Date
- July 04, 1937
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- textual record
- Physical Description
- Postcard : Paper : Ink : black, beige , blue, green, grey ; Ht: 3,5 in. x W: 5,5 in.
- Other Title Information
- Documentary Artifact
- Date
- July 04, 1937
- Physical Condition
- Good
- Language
- Hebrew
- French
- Notes
- On the front is an illustration of the town hall in Paris. White border around the illustration.
- Accession No.
- 1991.14.07
- Name Access
- Erman, Meir
- Places
- Paris, France, Europe
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
Images
Jacques Kasma and his father Uszer Kaszemacher
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn78437
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- Photograph : Paper : printed : Ink : B&W ; Ht: 12,1 cm x W: 8 cm
- Date
- April 03, 1937
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- Photograph : Paper : printed : Ink : B&W ; Ht: 12,1 cm x W: 8 cm
- Other Title Information
- Documentary Artifact
- Date
- April 03, 1937
- Physical Condition
- Excellent
- Language
- French
- Notes
- B&W photograph with a decorative border. Indoors. On the l., a man wears a black suit and, on the r., a child is holding a ball. Portrait of Jacques Kasma at age 2 with his father, Uszer Kaszemacher. Narrative: Jacques Kasma was born Jacques Kaszemacher on 1935-09-04 in the 10th arrondissement of Paris (France). His father was Uszer Hersz Kaszemacher, also known as Henric Kasmacher, born on 1913-04-05 in Parczew (Poland). His mother was Chaja Sura Bajwelcwajg, born 1915-05-19 in Warsaw (Poland). Jacques had a younger sister, Jeannine, born in 1937. In 1940, Henri Kasmacher was a driver in the French army. He was captured by the German armed forces in Saint-Die-des-Vosges (France) and was deported to the forced labour camp of Brunswiek, a subcamp of Neuengamme concentration camp ( Germany). In 1943, Chaja Bajwelcwajg was arrested and interned at the Drancy transit camp (France). She died in Drancy on 1943-09-02. Jacques was hidden in Normandy (France) during the war. After Liberation, he spent time in an orphanage ran by the OSE in Le Vésinet. He met Marcel Marceau, a famous French mime, who taught him his art. Henri Kasmacher survived the war and came back to France and remarried to Ida Wolnowicz. In 1956, Jacques Kasma settled in Montreal (Canada) where he pursued an artistic career. He acted as a mime named Tit-Bo on the children's television program "La Boîte à Surprise". He worked at the National Film Board as an editor and director. He also worked with the filmmaker Gilles Groulx. He went back to France to fulfill his military service obligations and moved back to Montreal in 1960. He was part of the Douglas hospital psychiatric research team for 20 years.
- Accession No.
- 2014.24.05
- Name Access
- Kasma, Puck
- Places
- Paris, France, Europe
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
Images
Jacques Kasma and his sister
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn78438
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- Photograph : Paper : printed : Ink : B&W ; Ht: 12,5 cm x W: 8,2 cm
- Date
- December 01, 1937
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- Photograph : Paper : printed : Ink : B&W ; Ht: 12,5 cm x W: 8,2 cm
- Other Title Information
- Documentary Artifact
- Date
- December 01, 1937
- Physical Condition
- Excellent
- Language
- French
- Notes
- B&W photograph with a decorative border. Indoors. Portrait of Jacques Kasma at age 3 with his baby sister, Jeannine Kaszemacher. On the r, the baby is wearing a winter outfit. On the l., young Jacques Kasma is wearing a coat, a dark scarf and a black hat. Narrative: Jacques Kasma was born Jacques Kaszemacher on 1935-09-04 in the 10th arrondissement of Paris (France). His father was Uszer Hersz Kaszemacher, also known as Henric Kasmacher, born on 1913-04-05 in Parczew (Poland). His mother was Chaja Sura Bajwelcwajg, born 1915-05-19 in Warsaw (Poland). Jacques had a younger sister, Jeannine, born in 1937. In 1940, Henri Kasmacher was a driver in the French army. He was captured by the German armed forces in Saint-Die-des-Vosges (France) and was deported to the forced labour camp of Brunswiek, a subcamp of Neuengamme concentration camp ( Germany). In 1943, Chaja Bajwelcwajg was arrested and interned at the Drancy transit camp (France). She died in Drancy on 1943-09-02. Jacques was hidden in Normandy (France) during the war. After Liberation, he spent time in an orphanage ran by the OSE in Le Vésinet. He met Marcel Marceau, a famous French mime, who taught him his art. Henri Kasmacher survived the war and came back to France and remarried to Ida Wolnowicz. In 1956, Jacques Kasma settled in Montreal (Canada) where he pursued an artistic career. He acted as a mime named Tit-Bo on the children's television program "La Boîte à Surprise". He worked at the National Film Board as an editor and director. He also worked with the filmmaker Gilles Groulx. He went back to France to fulfill his military service obligations and moved back to Montreal in 1960. He was part of the Douglas hospital psychiatric research team for 20 years.
- Accession No.
- 2014.24.06
- Name Access
- Kasma, Puck
- Places
- Paris, France, Europe
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
Images
Jacques Kasma and his sister
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn78440
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- Photograph : Paper : printed : Ink : B&W ; Ht: 12,3 cm x W: 8,2 cm
- Date
- [ca. 1939]
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- Photograph : Paper : printed : Ink : B&W ; Ht: 12,3 cm x W: 8,2 cm
- Other Title Information
- Documentary Artifact
- Date
- [ca. 1939]
- Physical Condition
- Excellent
- Language
- French
- Notes
- B&W photograph with a decorative border. Indoors. Portrait of Jacques Kasma as a child with his sister. On the l, Jeannine Kaszemacher is wearing a white shirt, a dark skirt, high white socks and boots. Jacques Kasma, on the l., is wearing a black outfit. Narrative: Jacques Kasma was born Jacques Kaszemacher on 1935-09-04 in the 10th arrondissement of Paris (France). His father was Uszer Hersz Kaszemacher, also known as Henric Kasmacher, born on 1913-04-05 in Parczew (Poland). His mother was Chaja Sura Bajwelcwajg, born 1915-05-19 in Warsaw (Poland). Jacques had a younger sister, Jeannine, born in 1937. In 1940, Henri Kasmacher was a driver in the French army. He was captured by the German armed forces in Saint-Die-des-Vosges (France) and was deported to the forced labour camp of Brunswiek, a subcamp of Neuengamme concentration camp ( Germany). In 1943, Chaja Bajwelcwajg was arrested and interned at the Drancy transit camp (France). She died in Drancy on 1943-09-02. Jacques was hidden in Normandy (France) during the war. After Liberation, he spent time in an orphanage ran by the OSE in Le Vésinet. He met Marcel Marceau, a famous French mime, who taught him his art. Henri Kasmacher survived the war and came back to France and remarried to Ida Wolnowicz. In 1956, Jacques Kasma settled in Montreal (Canada) where he pursued an artistic career. He acted as a mime named Tit-Bo on the children's television program "La Boîte à Surprise". He worked at the National Film Board as an editor and director. He also worked with the filmmaker Gilles Groulx. He went back to France to fulfill his military service obligations and moved back to Montreal in 1960. He was part of the Douglas hospital psychiatric research team for 20 years.
- Accession No.
- 2014.24.08
- Name Access
- Kasma, Puck
- Places
- Paris, France, Europe
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
Images
Alice and Pela Eckstein at the beach
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn45822
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- Photograph : paper ; Ht: 13.7 cm x W: 8.8 cm
- Date
- [ca. 1940-1942]
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- Photograph : paper ; Ht: 13.7 cm x W: 8.8 cm
- Other Title Information
- Documentary Artifact
- Date
- [ca. 1940-1942]
- Physical Condition
- Good
- Notes
- b&w with white border, oudoor scene. Two women standing on a pebble beach, in front of sea. Alice Eckstein is on the right, wearing a white swimsuit with flowers. Pela is on the left, wearing a black swimsuit.
- Accession No.
- 2012X.14.05
- Name Access
- Shenkier, Maurice
- Places
- Nice, France, Europe
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
Images
Autograph Book
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn47991
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- textual record
- Physical Description
- Autograph Book : leather work, handwritten, photography, graphic arts : brown, beige, multi-coloured ; Ht: 20,2 cm x W: 17,4 cm
- Date
- 1938-July 9, 1943
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- textual record
- Physical Description
- Autograph Book : leather work, handwritten, photography, graphic arts : brown, beige, multi-coloured ; Ht: 20,2 cm x W: 17,4 cm
- Other Title Information
- Documentary Artifact
- Date
- 1938-July 9, 1943
- Physical Condition
- Good
- Language
- French
- Yiddish
- German
- Italian
- Spanish
- Notes
- 110 pages. Hardcover, cardboard bound with glue and fabric. Cover is brown leather with a crocodile-skin pattern and a silver key-clasp; the edges and corners are rounded and the page edges are gilded; the binding fabric is red. Inside covers have a printed abstract pattern with multi-coloured smears of paint along the verticle axis. Interior pages are beige; primarily used as an autograph book. Autographs are found throughout in blue, black, green and purple inks, or in pencil. Drawings have been done in ink or pencil. One b&w photograph is attached to its own page: shows a woman in a dress, crouching outside on the ground, on a matt, with one arm extended as if to crawl, there is surrounding greenery with a mountain in the background. 2 pages of pressed flowers are found in the book: the first has only a 4-leaf clover; the second is filled with wildflowers, with stalks of wheat in the center. Many pages of the book are still blank. Book belonged to German Jewish woman named Hanna Landé. Narrative: Autographs, well-wishes and drawings to Hanna Landé. Written before and during her internment in Gurs internment camp. Earliest autograph dates from 1938. Hanna was in Paris in 1939, and in Villerbon in Dec. 1939. From July 1940 to June 1943, she was interned at Gurs. Gurs was an internment camp in south-western France along the Spanish border; it was originally used by the French to intern prisoners from the Spanish Civil War. On May 21, 1940, the Vichy government incarcerated German and other Axis citizens, as well as sympathizers at the camp, adding them to the existing Spanish population. When the armistice was signed with Germany, the Vichy government liberated the prisoners and burned the records (August to October 1940). The Nazis took over the camp in October 1940, filling it with Jews from other camps, Spaniards, and other "undesirables". There were numerous escapes from the camp (755 recorded) and it was only moderately secure, without the gun towers and a barbed wire fence only a few feet high. As of August 6, 1942, the camp's Jews were deported, usually to Drancy and from there on to Auschwitz.
- Accession No.
- 2008.01.01
- Name Access
- Wendt, Wulfram
- Places
- France, Europe
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
Images
Alexandra Golub and Reuben Philipson
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn49672
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- Photograph : Paper : Beige ; Ht: 5 cm x W: 7 cm
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- Photograph : Paper : Beige ; Ht: 5 cm x W: 7 cm
- Other Title Information
- Documentary Artifact
- Physical Condition
- Good
- Notes
- b&w, couple standing next to each other, looking in the same direction. They are the donor's paternal uncle and his wife. Narrative: In the 1920’s Serge and Sophie Philipson (nee Orbach) left Berlin for Paris due to rising antisemitism. On July 15, 1930 their daughter Rachel was born. Serge, Sophie and Rachel were Polish citizen, they never got either the German or the French citizenship. In Paris, Serge worked for Les Modes Modernes, the hat factory of his brother-in-law, Henri. When an opportunity to expand the business in Ireland arose, Serge moved to Galway. The new factory opened in July 1938. In August 1939, Sophie, Rachel, and 4 other family members (Rachel’s cousin Stéphane, his maternal grandmother Néné, Serge’s sister Esther and Serge’s sister-in-law Choura) left for Cabourg, in Normandy. After the winter 1939-1940 it became difficult to communicate with Ireland but Rachel and Sophie could still send and receive letter from Serge. At the end of winter 1940, the group moved to Néris and in July 1940, after the occupation of France by Germany, they settled in the zone libre in the village of Cauterets, on the border with Spain. They were reunited with Robert, Serge’s brother. In August 1942, 4 family members (Sophie’s sister Ella and her husband Ernest, their daughter Ruth, Serge’s siblings Robert and Esther) were arrested by local police and deported. They were not seen again. At the beginning of 1943, Sophie, her mother Augusta and Rachel moved to Maubourguet. In April 1943, they moved to Cannes in Hotel Victoria with Henri, Stéphane and Néné. Henri, Sophie and Augusta went into hiding together while cousins Stéphane and Rachel were taken care of by Néné and returned to Maubourguet. In January 1944, Henri, Sophie and Augusta were denounced and arrested. They were transferred to Marseille before being sent by train to Drancy transit camp from where they were deported. It is believed they were killed in a Polish killing centre. In 1944, Rachel moved from one place to another – under a non-Jewish identity - and continued to correspond with her father. In June 1945, she reunited with her father Ireland. They had not seen each other for 6 years. In 1951, Rachel got married. In 1954, she immigrated to Montreal.
- Accession No.
- 2002.08.314
- Name Access
- Levy, Rachel
- Places
- Paris, France, Europe
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
Images
Wedding photograph of Alexandra Golub and attendents
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn49673
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- Photograph : Paper : Beige ; Ht: 9 cm x W: 6 1/2 cm
- Date
- March 6, 1938
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- Photograph : Paper : Beige ; Ht: 9 cm x W: 6 1/2 cm
- Other Title Information
- Documentary Artifact
- Date
- March 6, 1938
- Physical Condition
- Good
- Language
- French
- Notes
- b&w, bride with Rachel Levy and 4 children attendents Narrative: In the 1920’s Serge and Sophie Philipson (nee Orbach) left Berlin for Paris due to rising antisemitism. On July 15, 1930 their daughter Rachel was born. Serge, Sophie and Rachel were Polish citizen, they never got either the German or the French citizenship. In Paris, Serge worked for Les Modes Modernes, the hat factory of his brother-in-law, Henri. When an opportunity to expand the business in Ireland arose, Serge moved to Galway. The new factory opened in July 1938. In August 1939, Sophie, Rachel, and 4 other family members (Rachel’s cousin Stéphane, his maternal grandmother Néné, Serge’s sister Esther and Serge’s sister-in-law Choura) left for Cabourg, in Normandy. After the winter 1939-1940 it became difficult to communicate with Ireland but Rachel and Sophie could still send and receive letter from Serge. At the end of winter 1940, the group moved to Néris and in July 1940, after the occupation of France by Germany, they settled in the zone libre in the village of Cauterets, on the border with Spain. They were reunited with Robert, Serge’s brother. In August 1942, 4 family members (Sophie’s sister Ella and her husband Ernest, their daughter Ruth, Serge’s siblings Robert and Esther) were arrested by local police and deported. They were not seen again. At the beginning of 1943, Sophie, her mother Augusta and Rachel moved to Maubourguet. In April 1943, they moved to Cannes in Hotel Victoria with Henri, Stéphane and Néné. Henri, Sophie and Augusta went into hiding together while cousins Stéphane and Rachel were taken care of by Néné and returned to Maubourguet. In January 1944, Henri, Sophie and Augusta were denounced and arrested. They were transferred to Marseille before being sent by train to Drancy transit camp from where they were deported. It is believed they were killed in a Polish killing centre. In 1944, Rachel moved from one place to another – under a non-Jewish identity - and continued to correspond with her father. In June 1945, she reunited with her father Ireland. They had not seen each other for 6 years. In 1951, Rachel got married. In 1954, she immigrated to Montreal.
- Accession No.
- 2002.08.315
- Name Access
- Levy, Rachel
- Places
- Paris, France, Europe
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
Images
Letter
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn49754
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- textual record
- Physical Description
- Letter : Paper : Beige, black, blue ; Ht: 26,7 cm x W: 20,7 cm
- Date
- March 31, 1938
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- textual record
- Physical Description
- Letter : Paper : Beige, black, blue ; Ht: 26,7 cm x W: 20,7 cm
- Other Title Information
- Documentary Artifact
- Date
- March 31, 1938
- Physical Condition
- Good
- Language
- French
- German
- Notes
- One page. Double-sided. Narrative: In the 1920’s Serge and Sophie Philipson (nee Orbach) left Berlin for Paris due to rising antisemitism. On July 15, 1930 their daughter Rachel was born. Serge, Sophie and Rachel were Polish citizen, they never got either the German or the French citizenship. In Paris, Serge worked for Les Modes Modernes, the hat factory of his brother-in-law, Henri. When an opportunity to expand the business in Ireland arose, Serge moved to Galway. The new factory opened in July 1938. In August 1939, Sophie, Rachel, and 4 other family members (Rachel’s cousin Stéphane, his maternal grandmother Néné, Serge’s sister Esther and Serge’s sister-in-law Choura) left for Cabourg, in Normandy. After the winter 1939-1940 it became difficult to communicate with Ireland but Rachel and Sophie could still send and receive letter from Serge. At the end of winter 1940, the group moved to Néris and in July 1940, after the occupation of France by Germany, they settled in the zone libre in the village of Cauterets, on the border with Spain. They were reunited with Robert, Serge’s brother. In August 1942, 4 family members (Sophie’s sister Ella and her husband Ernest, their daughter Ruth, Serge’s siblings Robert and Esther) were arrested by local police and deported. They were not seen again. At the beginning of 1943, Sophie, her mother Augusta and Rachel moved to Maubourguet. In April 1943, they moved to Cannes in Hotel Victoria with Henri, Stéphane and Néné. Henri, Sophie and Augusta went into hiding together while cousins Stéphane and Rachel were taken care of by Néné and returned to Maubourguet. In January 1944, Henri, Sophie and Augusta were denounced and arrested. They were transferred to Marseille before being sent by train to Drancy transit camp from where they were deported. It is believed they were killed in a Polish killing centre. In 1944, Rachel moved from one place to another – under a non-Jewish identity - and continued to correspond with her father. In June 1945, she reunited with her father Ireland. They had not seen each other for 6 years. In 1951, Rachel got married. In 1954, she immigrated to Montreal.
- Accession No.
- 2002.08.280
- Name Access
- Levy, Rachel
- Places
- Paris, France, Europe
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
Images
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