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111 Dessins de Boris Taslitzky faits à Buchenwald 1944-1945

https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn47573
Collection
Montreal Holocaust Museum
Description Level
Item
Material Type
textual record
Physical Description
Book : printed, graphic arts : beige, black, blue ; Ht: 25,1 cm x W: 21,7 cm
Date
1944-1945
Collection
Montreal Holocaust Museum
Description Level
Item
Material Type
textual record
Physical Description
Book : printed, graphic arts : beige, black, blue ; Ht: 25,1 cm x W: 21,7 cm
Other Title Information
Documentary Artifact
Date
1944-1945
Creator
0
Physical Condition
Good
Language
English
French
Notes
500+ pages (exact page number is unknown). Cardboard cover, not bound. Cover is beige with black and blue text; a b&w drawing of a person lying down, with their hands covering their face. Interior pages are beige, the first 12 consist only of text. The remaining pages have b&w drawings of different camp scenes, with captions under each. The last 5 drawings are in colour. The book ends with a table of contents of all the included drawings.
Accession No.
2011X.110.01
Name Access
Dionne, Danielle
Places
Paris, France, Europe
Archival / Genealogical
Archival Descriptions
Repository
Montreal Holocaust Museum
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Armband

https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn47505
Collection
Montreal Holocaust Museum
Description Level
Item
Material Type
object
Physical Description
Armband : woven, sewn, machine, printed : beige, black
Date
1939-1940
Collection
Montreal Holocaust Museum
Description Level
Item
Material Type
object
Physical Description
Armband : woven, sewn, machine, printed : beige, black
Other Title Information
Personal Symbol
Date
1939-1940
Physical Condition
Poor
Language
French
Notes
The centre of the band is wider than the ends. Button holes are found on the left side, with an additional loop of fabric. The armband belonged to the donor's father, Maurice Elias 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 April 19, 1942
Accession No.
2000.34.08
Name Access
Elias, Marguerite
Places
France, Europe
Archival / Genealogical
Archival Descriptions
Repository
Montreal Holocaust Museum
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Armband

https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn51219
Collection
Montreal Holocaust Museum
Description Level
Item
Material Type
object
Physical Description
Armband : printed, embroidered : White, Black ; Ht: 3,75 in. x W: 12,5 in.
Date
1939-1945
Collection
Montreal Holocaust Museum
Description Level
Item
Material Type
object
Physical Description
Armband : printed, embroidered : White, Black ; Ht: 3,75 in. x W: 12,5 in.
Other Title Information
Personal Symbol
Date
1939-1945
Physical Condition
Good
Language
German
Notes
Rectangular armband with three snaps. It served as identification for a forced labourer. This armband was given in Drancy internment camp to a hungarian Jew named Pal Link. Narrative: This armband belonged to Pal Link, the donor's father. In 1940, Pal was away from his home and family in Budapest for business and found himself stuck in France when the Germans invaded the country. He fled to Normandy hoping to escape to England but was unsuccessful. With false papers given to him by a local policeman, he managed to reach Nice in the South of France. Once the free zone was invaded, Pal went into hiding in the Alps but was denounced and deported to the Drancy internment camp. On the way to the camp, a soldier advised him to lie about his employment. Pal had a business exporting agricultural products but declared he was a stoker, and was put to work as such. This is how he survived from the end of 1943 to the summer of 1944 when the last inmates were let go in exchange for German soldiers. Pal survived the Holocaust and immigrated to Montreal where his son, Andre was living.
Accession No.
2011X.221.01
Name Access
Link, André
Places
Drancy, France, Europe
Archival / Genealogical
Archival Descriptions
Repository
Montreal Holocaust Museum
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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
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Belt

https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn47536
Collection
Montreal Holocaust Museum
Description Level
Item
Material Type
object
Physical Description
Belt : leather worked, braided, sewn (machine), pegged : red, silver
Collection
Montreal Holocaust Museum
Description Level
Item
Material Type
object
Physical Description
Belt : leather worked, braided, sewn (machine), pegged : red, silver
Other Title Information
Clothing Accessory
Physical Condition
Good
Notes
Silver buckle on one end; the other end is a piece of flat leather with 3 layers for reinforcement; 5 buckle holes are going along the centre in a line. The waist band is made up of 3 separate braided cords; 3 belt loops are positioned along the waist band in different intervals, keeping the cords connected, with an additional loop near the buckle. Narrative: This belt was a birthday gift from the donor's mother to her on the occasion of her 13th birthday (July 15, 1943) in Cannes.
Accession No.
2011X.215.11
Name Access
Levy, Rachel
Places
Cannes, France, Europe
Archival / Genealogical
Archival Descriptions
Repository
Montreal Holocaust Museum
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Birth certificate

https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn78444
Collection
Montreal Holocaust Museum
Description Level
Item
Material Type
textual record
Physical Description
Birth certificate : Paper : Ink : beige, black ; Ht: 29,4 cm x W: 20,8 cm
Date
November 30, 1950
Collection
Montreal Holocaust Museum
Description Level
Item
Material Type
textual record
Physical Description
Birth certificate : Paper : Ink : beige, black ; Ht: 29,4 cm x W: 20,8 cm
Other Title Information
Documentary Artifact
Date
November 30, 1950
Physical Condition
Excellent
Language
French
Notes
One page. One-sided photocopy of an official document. On the t. is the name Kaszemacher, Jacques. The document give the details of his birth. 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.
2014.24.15
Name Access
Kasma, Puck
Places
Paris, France, Europe
Archival / Genealogical
Archival Descriptions
Repository
Montreal Holocaust Museum
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Bottle

https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn45709
Collection
Montreal Holocaust Museum
Description Level
Item
Material Type
object
Physical Description
Bottle : painted : multi-coloured ; Ht: 21,7 cm x W: 7,5 cm
Date
1941-1944
Collection
Montreal Holocaust Museum
Description Level
Item
Material Type
object
Physical Description
Bottle : painted : multi-coloured ; Ht: 21,7 cm x W: 7,5 cm
Other Title Information
Decorative Art
Date
1941-1944
Physical Condition
Good
Language
French
Notes
Glass bottle with a wooden stopper. Inside the bottle is a crucifixion scene showing figure of a man (Jesus) hanging from a crucifix. The man has painted yellow skin with bits of black hair and beard. The crucifix is painted in orange and silver. There are also four tall tower-like structures painted orange, yellow, blue, and silver; two on the right of the crucifix and two on the left. A silver ladder is positioned under the crucified man. The whole is set into a silver base in two pieces. Narrative: The bottle was handcrafted by a Ukrainian prisoner of war in the Ban Saint-Jean camp. Many of the Soviet prisoners formed close ties with the local farmers, on whose farmers they were sent to work. They created handicrafts such as bottles, baskets, and wooden toys to give as gifts or to trade for food. This bottle was given to Anna Kremer, who lived in Boulay (village close to the camp) by a prisoner to whom she had given food and shoes. Many examples of such bottles and other handmade gifts were given to villagers in appreciation for their help to the prisoners of war. An estimated 22,000 Soviet prisoners of war died at Ban Saint-Jean of malnutrition and exhaustion between 1941-1944.
Accession No.
2011.374.01
Name Access
Silès, Damien
Places
Denting; Camp du Ban Saint-Jean, France, Europe
Archival / Genealogical
Archival Descriptions
Repository
Montreal Holocaust Museum
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Boys at the OSE home in Le Vesinet

https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn78442
Collection
Montreal Holocaust Museum
Description Level
Item
Material Type
graphic material
Physical Description
Photograph : Paper : printed : Ink : B&W ; Ht: 6,7 cm x W: 9,6 cm
Date
1948
Collection
Montreal Holocaust Museum
Description Level
Item
Material Type
graphic material
Physical Description
Photograph : Paper : printed : Ink : B&W ; Ht: 6,7 cm x W: 9,6 cm
Other Title Information
Documentary Artifact
Date
1948
Physical Condition
Excellent
Language
French
Notes
B&W photograph with border. Outdoors. Group of boys posing in a yard. On the rignt is a young woman problably in charge of the group. 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.
2014.24.10
Name Access
Kasma, Puck
Places
Le Vesinet, France, Europe
Archival / Genealogical
Archival Descriptions
Repository
Montreal Holocaust Museum
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Brinberg, Georgette - Oral History of a Holocaust Survivor

https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn60315
Collection
WITNESS TO HISTORY COLLECTION (MHMC-02)
Description Level
Item
Material Type
moving images
Physical Description
01:32:00
Collection
WITNESS TO HISTORY COLLECTION (MHMC-02)
Description Level
Item
Material Type
moving images
Physical Description
01:32:00
Creator
Montreal Holocaust Memorial Centre
Language
English; French
Notes
Georgette Brinberg (née Tepicht) was born on June 10, 1938 in the mining town of Villerupt in northern France. In the 1940s, when the town was attacked by Germany, her mother, father and older sister fled to Paris. Although she was young, she remembers that her father in 1940 was rounded-up and sent to a working camp, and eventually to Auschwitz. In July 1942, she, her sister and mother were rounded up and sent off to the Vélodrome d’Hiver where she stayed for a week until she was split up from her mother and destined to be sent to Auschwitz. Fortunately, Georgette and her sister were able to flee the Vel d’Hiv and were sent to Morée. She does not remember how she ended up there, but she does know that she was in hiding with her sister, and that there was a constant fear of being captured. She had to learn all the Catholic rites in order to pass off as a Catholic girl. In 1944, about the time of the liberation of France, she once more fled Morée and returned to Paris after jumping onto an American truck. Once she arrived in Paris with her sister, they sought out their grandmother who was still in hiding. All three stayed in hiding until the end of the war, and eventually moved to Israel in 1948. In Israel, she joined the Kibbutz – a collective community traditionally based on agriculture. She stayed there, learning Yiddish, until the 1950s. She eventually decided to move to Canada where her sister lived with her husband. In 1955, she finally arrived in Montreal where she went to business school and worked in the Quebec Order of Chartered Accountants. She married in 1957 and had three kids. In subsequent years, she researched the whereabouts of her family and tried to find a trace of those that helped her. She even returned to Paris to learn more about her past and her family legacy. She feels that her story should be told for future generations to remember, in her words: “if I can tell my grandchildren, then why not everyone [else]?”
Accession No.
WTH-462
Name Access
Brinberg, Georgette
Places
Villerupt, France, Europe
Archival / Genealogical
Archival Descriptions
Repository
Montreal Holocaust Museum
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Card

https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn50345
Collection
Montreal Holocaust Museum
Description Level
Item
Material Type
textual record
Physical Description
Card : Paper : Ink : Black, White, Blue, Red ; Ht: 4 in. x W: 3,25 in.
Date
1954-04-11-1968
Collection
Montreal Holocaust Museum
Description Level
Item
Material Type
textual record
Physical Description
Card : Paper : Ink : Black, White, Blue, Red ; Ht: 4 in. x W: 3,25 in.
Other Title Information
Documentary Artifact
Date
1954-04-11-1968
Physical Condition
Good
Language
French
German
Notes
2 pages, front cover has an illustration of a brick chimney with a basin on the top, with a fire coming out of it, and a cloud above it. Back cover has blue and white stripes and a red triangle with the letter F in the centre (identification of French political prisoners). Membership card for the French Association of survivors of Buchenwald Dora and camps. Narrative: Donor Desire Klein was a survivor of Buchenwald concentration camp.
Accession No.
1998.46.01
Name Access
Klein, Desiré
Places
Paris, France, Europe
Archival / Genealogical
Archival Descriptions
Repository
Montreal Holocaust Museum
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Casino in Neris-les-Bains

https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn49758
Collection
Montreal Holocaust Museum
Description Level
Item
Material Type
textual record
Physical Description
Postcard : Paper : Beige, White, Black ; Ht: 10,4 cm x W: 14,7 cm
Date
[Later than 1940]
Collection
Montreal Holocaust Museum
Description Level
Item
Material Type
textual record
Physical Description
Postcard : Paper : Beige, White, Black ; Ht: 10,4 cm x W: 14,7 cm
Other Title Information
Documentary Artifact
Date
[Later than 1940]
Language
French
Notes
Recto has b&w photograph of the casino building in Neris-les-bains. On verso are handwritten messages and address with three red postal stamps on top right with ink stamps. Postcard sent to Serge Philipson in Galway by his daughter Rachel and her cousins Ruth and Stephane. Narrative: In the 1930’s Rachel Levy’s parents, Serge and Sophie Philipson moved from Berlin to Paris due to antisemitism. After a few years, Serge started working in his brother-in-law’s, Henri, company “Les Modes Modernes”. An opportunity to expand the business in Ireland resulted in Serge moving to Irland while his wife Sophie and daughter Rachel stayed in France. In July 1938, the factory opened in Ireland, Rachel and Sophie went for the opening and came back to Paris. In August 1939, Sophie, Rachel, and other family members (Stéphane, Esther, Choura and her mother) went to Cabourg, in Normandy, while Augusta, Ella and Ruth went to Neris-les-bains. Since Paris wasn’t safe for Jews anymore, they decided to stay in Cabourg and rented a small house; Rachel was nine years old and started school there. After winter 1939-1940 it was difficult to communicate with Ireland but the family could still send and receive letters from Serge. At the end of winter 1940 Rachel moved to Neris-les-Bains where the rest of the family was. In July 1940, they left for Cauterets where Robert, Serge’s brother, was staying. They rented an apartment owned by Madame Noebès on rue Richelieu (close to the Spanish border). In 1940, Henri and Stéphane returned to the Riviera. With Néné, they moved to Hotel Victoria on the rue Antibes in Cannes. In August 1942, Mr. Kleinman (a friend from Paris) arrived in Cauterets and told them that Jews who had come to France after 1933 would be deported. Ella, Ernest, Ruth, Robert and Esther were arrested by local police and would be deported and killed later on. At the beginning of 1943, Sophie, her daughter Rachel, Oma, Henri, Stéphane and Néné left Cauterets to move to Maubourguet. In April 1943, they moved to Cannes in Hotel Victoria. On July 15 1943, Rachel turned 15 years old. Mr. Borello offered to hide Henri, Sophie and Grandmother Augusta (Oma) while Stéphane and Rachel were taken care of by Néné and returned to Maubourguet. In January 1944, Henri, Sophie and Augusta were denounced, arrested and transferred to Marseille and then sent by train to Drancy from where they were later deported (they did not survive). Jean (who was in a relationship with Rachel’s aunt Suzanne) came to Maubourget, gave Rachel his daughter’s identity “Jacqueline” and she left for Juan-les-Pins. In 1944, she moved from one place to another and still continued to correspond with her father. At the end of the war, Rachel met her uncle Shaja at the Polish Consulate in Lyon. He offered to help her to get papers to go to Ireland. On June 14, 1945, she spent three days in London with some family members and then took a boat-train for Dublin where she was reunited with her father, Serge, whom she had not seen for 6 years. In 1951, Rachel got married. She had four sons and has been living in Montreal since 1954.
Accession No.
2002.08.320
Name Access
Levy, Rachel
Places
Neris-les-Bains, France, Europe
Archival / Genealogical
Archival Descriptions
Repository
Montreal Holocaust Museum
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Caskets of victims of the tragedy of Guerry’s wells

https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn50022
Collection
Montreal Holocaust Museum
Description Level
Item
Material Type
graphic material
Physical Description
Photograph : paper : b&w ; Ht: 12,5 cm x W: 17,4 cm
Date
1944
Collection
Montreal Holocaust Museum
Description Level
Item
Material Type
graphic material
Physical Description
Photograph : paper : b&w ; Ht: 12,5 cm x W: 17,4 cm
Other Title Information
Documentary Artifact
Date
1944
Physical Condition
Good
Notes
White border with deckled edges. Outdoor scene of two men surrounded by casket laying on the ground in a field with a forest in the background. The man on the left seems like military. Some flowers have been laid on the caskets. The caskets belong to victims of the tragedy of Guerry’s wells. Narrative: The tragedy of Guerry’s wells is a jewish persecution that took place the night of the 21st and 22nd of July 1944 at Saint-Amand-Montrond (France) on a farm. 36 persons where thrown in three different wells along with some stones in order to crush them alive. Since the beginning of the war many Jewish hid there. Charles Krameisen was the only survivor. He went to the police to tell the tragedy. Robert Monheit (the donor) helped to hid Jews from Alsace-Lorraine (his hometown) to Saint-Amand-Montrond and nearby villages such as La Chartre. He gave lessons to the son of Charles Krameisen to prepare for his bar mitzvah. Regarding the wells, as he was in charge of reorganizing the post-war Jewish life in Alsace-Lorraine and had already links with Saint-Amand, he was part of the witnesses invited to attend the exhumation of the bodies of victims. His religious functions confirmed that the survivors had lost their spouses and therefore gave them permission to remarry.
Accession No.
2012.31.44
Name Access
Monheit, Robert
Places
St-Amand, France, Europe
Archival / Genealogical
Archival Descriptions
Repository
Montreal Holocaust Museum
Images
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Celinka (Cecile) and Elzbieta (Elizabeth) Zilberbogen

https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn48238
Collection
Montreal Holocaust Museum
Description Level
Item
Material Type
graphic material
Physical Description
Photograph : paper : b&w ; Ht: 8,6 cm x W: 6,1 cm
Date
[ca. 1942]
Collection
Montreal Holocaust Museum
Description Level
Item
Material Type
graphic material
Physical Description
Photograph : paper : b&w ; Ht: 8,6 cm x W: 6,1 cm
Other Title Information
Documentary Artifact
Date
[ca. 1942]
Physical Condition
Good
Notes
White border. Outdoor portrait in which Celinka (Cecile) is sitting on the left and Elzbieta (Elizabeth) Zilberogen is sitting on the right. They are sitting on the sidewalk both of them wearing a light dress. Elzbieta (Elizabeth) has a ribbon in her hair. 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.
2012.15.26
Name Access
Peltier, Cécile
Places
France, Europe
Archival / Genealogical
Archival Descriptions
Repository
Montreal Holocaust Museum
Images
Less detail

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