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Portrait of Simon Mordechai Rapkin in uniform
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn45519
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- Photograph : paper : photography : black, white ; Ht: 9 cm x W: 14 cm
- Date
- 1944
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- Photograph : paper : photography : black, white ; Ht: 9 cm x W: 14 cm
- Other Title Information
- Documentary Artifact
- Date
- 1944
- Physical Condition
- Good
- Notes
- b&w, white border. Outdoors. Canadian soldier Simon Rapkin in uniform standing on a bridge. He wears a dark military beret and unadorned uniform with a belt and thin strap across the chest. Narrative: Simon Rapkin was originally from Montreal. He was posted in England in 1942. He landed in France six days after D-Day. He was working in transport and did not see combat. After liberation, he was posted close to Bergen-Belsen concentration camp. He used to bring chocolates and other things to survivors of the camp.
- Accession No.
- 2009.15.04
- Name Access
- Rapkin, Sarah
- Places
- France, Europe
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
Images
Muguette Myers
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn45624
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- Photograph : Paper : photography : black, white ; Ht: 26 cm x W: 19 cm
- Date
- 1941
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- Photograph : Paper : photography : black, white ; Ht: 26 cm x W: 19 cm
- Other Title Information
- Documentary Artifact
- Date
- 1941
- Physical Condition
- Good
- Notes
- b&w. Portrait. 3/4 oval portrait of a young girl with short brown hair. She is wearing a Star of David which reads “Juif”. The border outside the oval is motled grey and white.
- Accession No.
- 1998.19.02
- Name Access
- Myers, Muguette
- Places
- Paris, France, Europe
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
Images
Alice and Rella Eckstein
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn45666
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- Photograph : Paper ; Ht: 7,4 cm x W: 9,8 cm
- Date
- 1942
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- Photograph : Paper ; Ht: 7,4 cm x W: 9,8 cm
- Other Title Information
- Documentary Artifact
- Date
- 1942
- Physical Condition
- Good
- Language
- English
- Notes
- B&w photograph with a white boder along the lengths. An outdoor scene, in which two women are walking along La Promenade des Anglais. They are wearing dress clothes. From left to right, Alice Eckstein and Rella Eckstein are shown.
- Accession No.
- 2000.84.40
- Name Access
- Shenkier, Maurice
- Places
- Nice, France, Europe
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
Images
Alice Eckstein on the Promenade des Anglais in Nice
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn45673
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- Photograph : Paper ; Ht: 8 cm x W: 9,9 cm
- Date
- 1941
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- Photograph : Paper ; Ht: 8 cm x W: 9,9 cm
- Other Title Information
- Documentary Artifact
- Date
- 1941
- Physical Condition
- Good
- Language
- English
- Notes
- B&w photograph with a white border on three sides. An outdoor portrait of a fashionably dressed woman in black, leaning against the railing of a boardwalk known as Promenade des Anglais. The Plage des Ponchettes and the old pier can be seen in the background. The woman in the photograph is Alice Eckstein.
- Accession No.
- 2000.84.47
- Name Access
- Shenkier, Maurice
- Places
- Nice, France, Europe
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
Images
Sisters Alice and Rella Eckstein
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn45683
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- Photograph : Paper ; Ht: 14,8 cm x W: 6,6 cm
- Date
- 1941
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- Photograph : Paper ; Ht: 14,8 cm x W: 6,6 cm
- Other Title Information
- Documentary Artifact
- Date
- 1941
- Physical Condition
- Good
- Language
- English
- Notes
- B&w photograph with a white border. An outdoor portrait of two women standing on a city sidewalk in Nice, wearing dresses and ornate hats. Building signs in the background read "Cranbourn Mansions" and "W. Jennings." From left to right, Alice Eckstein and Rella Eckstein are shown.
- Accession No.
- 2000.84.58
- Name Access
- Shenkier, Maurice
- Places
- Nice, France, Europe
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
Images
Sisters Alice and Rella Eckstein on the Promenade des Anglais
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn45699
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- Photograph : Paper ; Ht: 12,9 cm x W: 10 cm
- Date
- 1941
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- Photograph : Paper ; Ht: 12,9 cm x W: 10 cm
- Other Title Information
- Documentary Artifact
- Date
- 1941
- Physical Condition
- Good
- Language
- French
- Notes
- B&w double photograph with white border along the lengths. An outdoor scene, in which two women are walking along a city sidewalk in in Nice, wearing dress clothes. In the background is Hotel Negresco. From left to right, Rella Eckstein and Alice Eckstein are shown.
- Accession No.
- 2004.01.07
- Name Access
- Shenkier, Maurice
- Places
- Nice, France, Europe
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
Images
Alice Eckstein and Friends in France
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn45701
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- Photograph : Paper ; Ht: 7 cm x W: 9,7 cm
- Date
- 1942
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- Photograph : Paper ; Ht: 7 cm x W: 9,7 cm
- Other Title Information
- Documentary Artifact
- Date
- 1942
- Physical Condition
- Good
- Notes
- B&w photograph with a white border. An outdoor portrait of one man and three women standing in a garden, wearing dress clothes. The third person to the right is Alice Eckstein.
- Accession No.
- 2004.01.09
- Name Access
- Shenkier, Maurice
- Places
- France, Europe
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
Images
Maurice and Henia Eckstein
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn45818
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- Photograph : paper ; Ht: 8.3 cm x W: 12.5 cm
- Date
- August 16, 1941
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- Photograph : paper ; Ht: 8.3 cm x W: 12.5 cm
- Other Title Information
- Documentary Artifact
- Date
- August 16, 1941
- Physical Condition
- Good
- Language
- German
- Notes
- b&w with white border. Portrait of Maurice and Henia Eckstein. Henia is wearing a dress while Maurice is wearing a dark suit with a striped tie. Narrative: Maurice and Henia Eckstein were the donor's uncle and aunt. They survived the war by hiding in Perpignan, France
- Accession No.
- 2012X.14.02
- Name Access
- Shenkier, Maurice
- Places
- Prades, 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
Maurice Shenkier and his mother on Promenade des Anglais
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn45845
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- Photograph : paper ; Ht: 6.7 cm x W: 8.8 cm
- Date
- 1941
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- Photograph : paper ; Ht: 6.7 cm x W: 8.8 cm
- Other Title Information
- Documentary Artifact
- Date
- 1941
- Physical Condition
- Good
- Notes
- b&w with white border, outdoor scene. Maurice Shenkier and his mother Alice Eckstein, walking down the promenade des Anglais and smiling. Alice wearing a white suit , holding a purse in her left hand and having her right hand on Maurice's shoulder. Maurice wearing shorts and holding a stick. People on chairs and benches in the background.
- Accession No.
- 2012X.14.32
- Name Access
- Shenkier, Maurice
- Places
- Nice, France, Europe
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
Images
Pela and Sonia Eckstein
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn45846
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- Photograph : paper ; Ht: 9.4 cm x W: 7.5 cm
- Date
- 1942
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- Photograph : paper ; Ht: 9.4 cm x W: 7.5 cm
- Other Title Information
- Documentary Artifact
- Date
- 1942
- Physical Condition
- Good
- Notes
- b&w with white border, outdoor scene. Pela Eckstein walking with her daughter Sonia on the Promenade des Anglais. In the background, hilly neighbourhood with buildings and houses. Lots of people walking on the promenade. Pela is wearing a long coat, black hat and balck gloves. She has a purse hanging on her right forearm. Sonia is wearing a coat, a hat, with stockings and black shoes. She is holding a white purse with her left hand and her mother's arm with her right hand.
- Accession No.
- 2012X.14.34
- Name Access
- Shenkier, Maurice
- Places
- Nice, France, Europe
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
Images
Alice Eckstein and relatives
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn45853
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- Photograph : paper ; Ht: 8 cm x W: 9.2 cm
- Date
- 1951
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- Photograph : paper ; Ht: 8 cm x W: 9.2 cm
- Other Title Information
- Documentary Artifact
- Date
- 1951
- Physical Condition
- Good
- Notes
- b&w with white border, urban scene. Henia, Maurice and Alice Eckstein standing next to each other, holding arms, in the middle of the street. Black cars parked on both sides of the street.
- Accession No.
- 2012X.14.41
- Name Access
- Shenkier, Maurice
- Places
- Vichy, France, Europe
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
Images
Alice Eckstein and her cousin on the Promenade des Anglais
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn45856
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- Photograph : paper ; Ht: 7 cm x W: 8.9 cm
- Date
- 1941
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- Photograph : paper ; Ht: 7 cm x W: 8.9 cm
- Other Title Information
- Documentary Artifact
- Date
- 1941
- Physical Condition
- Good
- Notes
- b&w with white border, urban scene. Alice Eckstein and her cousin walking down the Promenade des Anglais.
- Accession No.
- 2012X.14.44
- Name Access
- Shenkier, Maurice
- Places
- Nice, France, Europe
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
Images
Maurice Shenkier playing on a beach
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn45858
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- Photograph : paper ; Ht: 5.8 cm x W: 8.2 cm
- Date
- 1942
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- Photograph : paper ; Ht: 5.8 cm x W: 8.2 cm
- Other Title Information
- Documentary Artifact
- Date
- 1942
- Physical Condition
- Good
- Notes
- b&w with white border, outdoor scene. Maurice Shenkier digging sand. Two women sitting on deck chairs behind the boy. Clothes drying on a rope behind the women. There is the Rubens hotel in the background. Narrative: Maurice Shenkier was born on December 27, 1930 in Antwerp, Belgium. When the Germans started bombarding Antwerp in May 1940. Maurice and his parents immediately fled to France. In July of 1942, the family had to flee again. They crossed the Spanish border illegally, but were arrested by the Spanish police. Instead of sending them back to France, the officers helped Maurice’s family find a place to live. Eventually, Maurice and his parents moved to Portugal where they stayed until April 1944 when they embarked on the Serpa Pinto ship to Philadelphia. Upon arrival, they took a train to Montreal.
- Accession No.
- 2012X.14.46
- Name Access
- Shenkier, Maurice
- Places
- Nice ?, France, Europe
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
Images
Portrait of Celinka (Cecile) Zilberbogen
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn48212
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- Photograph : paper : b&w ; Ht: 12,4 cm x W: 8,3 cm
- Date
- [ca. 1942]
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- Photograph : paper : b&w ; Ht: 12,4 cm x W: 8,3 cm
- Other Title Information
- Documentary Artifact
- Date
- [ca. 1942]
- Physical Condition
- Excellent
- Notes
- White border, outdoor portrait of Celinka (Cecile) Zilberbogen wearing a winter outfit. She has a white hat and dark coat. 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 a transit camp in the South of France before being released. Chana was then hospitalized and spent the war hidden in a Sanatorium in Mazamet. 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.
- 2012.15.32
- Name Access
- Peltier, Cécile
- Places
- France, Europe
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
Images
Portrait of Mrs. Garnodier, Elzbieta (Elizabeth) and Celinka (Cecile) Zilberbogen.
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn48214
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- Photograph : paper : b&w ; Ht: 12,7 cm x W: 8,2 cm
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- Photograph : paper : b&w ; Ht: 12,7 cm x W: 8,2 cm
- Other Title Information
- Documentary Artifact
- Physical Condition
- Excellent
- Notes
- White border. Indoor portrait of Mrs. Garnodier standing in between Elzbieta (Elizabeth) on left and Celinka (Cecile) Zilberbogen. Both girls are wearing a dress made of the same pattern and fabric but sleeves don't quite fit one an another. Photograph was taken at a photographer's studio. Narrative: Mrs. Garnodier along with her husband, hid and took care of the sisters Zilberbogen, Elzbieta (Elizabeth) and Celinka (Cecile) in their farm in Drome during the Second World War.
- Accession No.
- 2012.15.21
- Name Access
- Peltier, Cécile
- Places
- Alixan, France, Europe
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
Images
Elzbieta (Elizabeth) and Celinka (Cecile) Zilberbogen at Palavas OSE children's home
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn48215
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- Photograph : paper : b&w ; Ht: 8,4 cm x W: 12,4 cm
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- Photograph : paper : b&w ; Ht: 8,4 cm x W: 12,4 cm
- Other Title Information
- Documentary Artifact
- Physical Condition
- Excellent
- Language
- French
- Notes
- No border, outdoor scene. 25 boys and girls (one adult) standing and sitting in front of a building. The third one standing from the left in the back row is Elzbieta (Elizabeth) Zilberbogen. The third one sitting from the left in front row is Celinka (Cecile) Zilberbogen. 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 a transit camp in the South of France before being released. Chana was then hospitalized and spent the war hidden in a Sanatorium in Mazamet. 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. The “Œuvre de secours aux enfants” (OSE) is a Jewish organization designed to help children. OSE was established in 1912 in St. Petersburg (Russia) by doctors to help disadvantaged Jewish populations. It was then called the “Society for the health protection of the Jewish population”, in Russian Obshchetsvo Zdravookhraneniya Yevreyiev, abbreviated OZE. It rescued thousands of Jewish children during the Second World War.
- Accession No.
- 2012.15.27
- Name Access
- Peltier, Cécile
- Places
- Palavas , France, Europe
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
Images
Celinka (Cecile), Elzbieta (Elizabeth) Zilberbogen and other children from OSE children home
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn48216
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- Photograph : paper : b&w ; Ht: 8,5 cm x W: 12,5 cm
- Date
- 1942
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- Photograph : paper : b&w ; Ht: 8,5 cm x W: 12,5 cm
- Other Title Information
- Documentary Artifact
- Date
- 1942
- Physical Condition
- Excellent
- Language
- French
- Notes
- No border, outdoor scene. 26 boys and girls (one adult) standing and sitting in front of a building on the sand. In the middle, standing up there is Elzbieta (Elizabeth) Zilberbogen. The first one sitting from the left is Celinka (Cecile) Zilberbogen. 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 a transit camp in the South of France before being released. Chana was then hospitalized and spent the war hidden in a Sanatorium in Mazamet. 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.The “Œuvre de secours aux enfants” (OSE) is a Jewish organization designed to help children. OSE was established in 1912 in St. Petersburg (Russia) by doctors to help disadvantaged Jewish populations. It was then called the “Society for the health protection of the Jewish population”, in Russian Obshchetsvo Zdravookhraneniya Yevreyiev, abbreviated OZE. It rescued thousands of Jewish children during the Second World War.
- Accession No.
- 2012.15.28
- Name Access
- Peltier, Cécile
- Places
- Palavas, France, Europe
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
Images
Group picture with Celinka (Cecile) and Elzbieta (Elizabeth) Zilberbogen.
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn48217
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- Photograph : paper : sepia ; Ht: 9,4 cm x W: 15,2 cm
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- Photograph : paper : sepia ; Ht: 9,4 cm x W: 15,2 cm
- Other Title Information
- Documentary Artifact
- Physical Condition
- Excellent
- Notes
- White border, outdoor scene. Group of 15 children and one woman sitting in front of a wall and bushes. The third child on the front row from the right is Celinka (Cecile) Zilberbogen and the third child on the back row is Elzbieta (Elizabeth) Zilberbogen. They are half naked. Narrative: Elzbieta (Elizabeth) and Celinka (Cecile) Zilberbogen were sisters and both lived at this OSE children's home. 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 a transit camp in the South of France before being released. Chana was then hospitalized and spent the war hidden in a Sanatorium in Mazamet. 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.
- 2012.15.30
- Name Access
- Peltier, Cécile
- Places
- France, Europe
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
Images
Elzbieta (Elizabeth) and Celinka (Cecile) Zilberbogen
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn48218
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- Photograph : paper : b&w ; Ht: 6 cm x W: 8,5 cm
- Date
- [ca. 1942]
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- Photograph : paper : b&w ; Ht: 6 cm x W: 8,5 cm
- Other Title Information
- Documentary Artifact
- Date
- [ca. 1942]
- Physical Condition
- Excellent
- Notes
- White border, outdoor scene. Elzbieta (Elizabeth) on the right and Celinka (Cecile) Zilberbogen on the left are standing up in winter clothes. The background is filled of bushes and trees. 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 a transit camp in the South of France before being released. Chana was then hospitalized and spent the war hidden in a Sanatorium in Mazamet. 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.
- 2012.15.34
- Name Access
- Peltier, Cécile
- Places
- France , Europe
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
Images
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