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- CONGREGATION SHAAR HASHOMAYIM MUSEUM AND ARCHIVES 2
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?
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn76489
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- textual record
- Physical Description
- ? : Paper : Printed : Ink : Beige, Black ; Ht: 29,5 cm x W: 21 cm
- Date
- May 13, 1947
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- textual record
- Physical Description
- ? : Paper : Printed : Ink : Beige, Black ; Ht: 29,5 cm x W: 21 cm
- Other Title Information
- Documentary Artifact
- Date
- May 13, 1947
- Physical Condition
- Good
- Language
- Yiddish
- Notes
- 1 page, single-sided. Folded once horizontally and once vertically. Triangular stamp with "Amchu" insignia of harp in centre, Yiddish text. Document relates to "Amchu" Artist's Group in Feldafing. Contains list of members. Mayer Abramowicz is first on the list. Narrative: Bella (Beila, Bela) Herling and Mayer (Majer, Meyer, Meir) Abramovitch (Abramovitz, Abramowicz, Abramowitz) were the parents of the donor, Toby Herscovitch. Bella was born in Suchedniów, Poland on September 25, 1925, the youngest of a family of ten children. Her parents and five siblings were murdered in the Holocaust. Bella and three of her sisters survived the war working as slave labourers in an ammunitions factory in Skarzysko-Kamienna. They were liberated by Russian troops on January 16, 1945, and made their way to the Feldafing Displaced Persons Camp, where they reunited with a brother who had survived Auschwitz. Bella volunteered for nursing training by a Jewish refugee agency, and worked as a nurse in the camp from 1946 to 1948. In 1948, she joined her sister Paula in Toronto, where she worked as a nurse's aide and married Mayer, a fellow survivor who she had known from Feldafing. Born November 10, 1914 in Vilna (Vilnius), he was the sole survivor of a family of six children. He lived in the Vilna ghetto and worked in a factory making window panes for German barracks; he was later sent to a labour camp in Tallin, Estonia, and then to Stutthof concentration camp. In the final days of the war, he escaped from a subsequent transfer to Dachau concentration camp and was liberated. He spent three months sick in a hospital and ended up in Feldafing, where he was active in the "Amchu" or "AMCHO" theater group, part of the Jewish Labour Committee. He lived for a year in France, and immigrated to Canada in May, 1949. Bella and Mayer moved to Montreal in 1950 and opened a fabric store. Mayer passed away in 2001, and Bella in 2014.
- Accession No.
- 2014.10.14
- Name Access
- Herscovitch, Toby
- Places
- Feldafing, Germany, Europe
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
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ADILMAN, Bernard (Birney) Mortimer
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/genealogy11
- Collection
- Canadian Jewish Congress organizational records
- Material Type
- textual record
- Archival / Genealogical
- Genealogy Records
- Material Type
- textual record
- Date of Birth
- October 01, 1917
- Date of Death
- January 06, 1945
- Place of Burial
- Bad Tolz, Bayern, Germany
- Cemetery
- Durnbach War Cemetery
- Age at Time of Death
- 27
- Enlistment No.
- J-6390
- Rank
- Flight Lieutenant
- Unit
- Royal Canadian Air Force
- Notes
- Flight Lieutenant Birney Adilman, of Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, was reported missing in action overseas and presumed dead. Enlisting in the Air Force in October 1940, Flight Lieutenant Adilman went overseas as a bomber pilot in July 1941. He completed a tour of operations in Hampdens and Wellingtons and was posted to a Canadian operational training unit in England as an instructor before gong on leave in June 1944. He flew on missions over Hamburg, Essen, Paris, Bremen and Cologne, and laid mines at Kiel, Lorient and off the Dutch coast. He was forced to make four crash landings. He was pilot of an aircraft in a squadron that raided the Gnome-Rhone works outside Paris on June 19, 1942, without dropping his bombs. "We spent twenty minutes over the target but the cloud was too thick and we couldn't pinpoint the target," Flight Lieutenant Adilman reported on his return to base. (Canadian Jews in World War II.)
- Subjects
- World War II
- Record Source
- Canadian Jewish Military Casualties
- Fonds No.
- CJC0001
- Archival / Genealogical
- Genealogy Records
- Repository
- Canadian Jewish Archives
Ami Szavunk
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn51344
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- textual record
- Physical Description
- Newspaper : Paper ; Ht: 12 1/2 in. x W: 9 3/8 in.
- Date
- August 9, 1946
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- textual record
- Physical Description
- Newspaper : Paper ; Ht: 12 1/2 in. x W: 9 3/8 in.
- Other Title Information
- Documentary Artifact
- Date
- August 9, 1946
- Physical Condition
- Good
- Language
- Hungarian
- Notes
- 8 pages
- Accession No.
- 2011X.198.02
- Name Access
- Kroo, Emil
- Places
- Bamberg, Germany, Europe
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
An Anthology of Songs and Poems from the Ghettos and Concentration Camps
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn51206
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- textual record
- Physical Description
- Book : printed : beige, black ; Ht: 31 cm x W: 21,3 cm
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- textual record
- Physical Description
- Book : printed : beige, black ; Ht: 31 cm x W: 21,3 cm
- Other Title Information
- Documentary Artifact
- Creator
- -
- Physical Condition
- fragile
- Language
- English
- Yiddish
- Notes
- 44 pages. Unbound. Pages have text, printed in columns, illustrations and musical scores. Includes poems from Lodz (Litzmannstadt) ghetto and the Partisan song by Hirsh Glik. Published by Holocaust survivors in Bergen-Belsen Displaced Persons camp.
- Accession No.
- 2011X.337.01
- Name Access
- Trepman, Babey
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
Images
Application form
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn59642
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- textual record
- Physical Description
- Application form : paper : Typed : ink : Beige, black, purple ; Ht: 20,5 cm x W: 15 cm
- Date
- May 02, 1939
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- textual record
- Physical Description
- Application form : paper : Typed : ink : Beige, black, purple ; Ht: 20,5 cm x W: 15 cm
- Other Title Information
- Documentary Artifact
- Date
- May 02, 1939
- Physical Condition
- Good
- Language
- German
- Notes
- Form with two holes punched in it, details filled-in by hand. Application form for emigration to the USA for Avrum Rubner and his brother Chaija were immigrating to the USA. Narrative: Avrum Rubner (Awrum Rabner) was born to Moishe and Eidly Rubner in Dobromyl, Poland on 22 December 1913. He had a brother named Chaija, and completed his apprenticeship at the Rudolph Karstadt company in the garment department as a salesman in March 1933. Afterwards he worked as a salesman. Refugee camp 42. By February 1959 he was living in Montreal and applying for a Canadian pension.
- Accession No.
- 1998.41.34
- Name Access
- Gal, Daniel
- Places
- Dortmund, Germany, Europe
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
Images
ARON, Martin
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/genealogy7090
- Collection
- JEWISH IMMIGRANT AID SERVICES (JIAS)
- Material Type
- textual record
- Archival / Genealogical
- Genealogy Records
- Collection
- JEWISH IMMIGRANT AID SERVICES (JIAS)
- Material Type
- textual record
- Spouse
- Elly
- Date File Opened
- 12/06/1951
- Arrival Date
- 12/06/1951
- Place of Birth
- Germany
- Record Source
- JIAS Montreal Client Cards
- Fonds No.
- I0037
- Series No.
- R
- File No.
- 02-342
- Restrictions
- Due to privacy laws, access to further information about this record is restricted. You may contact the Canadian Jewish Archives to learn more.
- Archival / Genealogical
- Genealogy Records
- Repository
- Canadian Jewish Archives
ASCHKINASI, Josef
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/genealogy7136
- Collection
- JEWISH IMMIGRANT AID SERVICES (JIAS)
- Material Type
- textual record
- Archival / Genealogical
- Genealogy Records
- Collection
- JEWISH IMMIGRANT AID SERVICES (JIAS)
- Material Type
- textual record
- Spouse
- Melvina
- Children
- Israel
- Place of Birth
- Germany
- Record Source
- JIAS Montreal Client Cards
- Fonds No.
- I0037
- Series No.
- R
- File No.
- 02-519
- Restrictions
- Due to privacy laws, access to further information about this record is restricted. You may contact the Canadian Jewish Archives to learn more.
- Archival / Genealogical
- Genealogy Records
- Repository
- Canadian Jewish Archives
Aufsätze
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn47535
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- textual record
- Physical Description
- Notebook : handwritten, bound : brown, blue, beige, black, red ; Ht: 21,3 cm x W: 16,8 cm
- Date
- 1909-1917
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- textual record
- Physical Description
- Notebook : handwritten, bound : brown, blue, beige, black, red ; Ht: 21,3 cm x W: 16,8 cm
- Other Title Information
- Documentary Artifact
- Date
- 1909-1917
- Physical Condition
- Good
- Language
- German
- Notes
- 14 pages. Softcover, bound with string. Cover is blue with a brown paper dust-cover. On the front, centre, is an octagonal white sticker with a handwritten title. Pages are beige with black horizontal lines; first 10 pages have handwritten text in black, with red markings and corrections throughout. School books of Sophie Orbach. Narrative: Sophie Orbach was the donor's mother. Sophie Philipson (nee Orbach) left Berlin for Paris with her husband Serge in the 1920s, 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. After spending 4 years in the free zone of France, and having found a hiding place, she was denounced along with her mother and her brother. In January 1944, they were arrested and sent to the Drancy transit camp from where they were deported. It is believed they were killed in a Polish killing centre. Her husband Serge survived the war in Ireland where he was managing a factory. Her daughter was able to survive in hiding in different places in the south of France.
- Accession No.
- 2011X.215.07
- Name Access
- Levy, Rachel
- Places
- Germany ?, Europe
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
Images
Back from Hell: Collected Sketches by Berl Friedler
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn47879
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- textual record
- Physical Description
- Book : printed, bound, drawn : beige, black, red ; Ht: 22,4 cm x W: 30,2 cm
- Date
- 1947
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- textual record
- Physical Description
- Book : printed, bound, drawn : beige, black, red ; Ht: 22,4 cm x W: 30,2 cm
- Other Title Information
- Documentary Artifact
- Date
- 1947
- Creator
- -
- Physical Condition
- Poor
- Language
- English
- Yiddish
- Notes
- 44 pages, softcover, stapled spine, title written in Hebrew on the front cover and in English on the back cover. Book starts off with 2 pages of text, continues with 1 sketch per page with hebrew captions, some sketches have been coloured in with red pencil-crayon. Narrative: A series of sketches depicting scenes from concentration camps.
- Accession No.
- 2005.21.01
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
Images
Back from Hell: Collected Sketches by Berl Friedler
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn48197
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- textual record
- Physical Description
- Book : printed, bound, drawn : beige, black, red ; Ht: 22,4 cm x W: 30,2 cm
- Date
- 1947
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- textual record
- Physical Description
- Book : printed, bound, drawn : beige, black, red ; Ht: 22,4 cm x W: 30,2 cm
- Other Title Information
- Documentary Artifact
- Date
- 1947
- Creator
- -
- Physical Condition
- Poor
- Language
- English
- Hebrew
- Notes
- 44 pages, softcover, stapled spine, title written in Hebrew on the front cover and in English on the back cover. Book starts off with 2 pages of text, continues with 1 sketch per page with hebrew captions, some sketches have been coloured in with red pencil-crayon. Narrative: A series of sketches depicting scenes from concentration camps.
- Accession No.
- 2012X.78.01
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
Images
Back from Hell: Collected Sketches by Berl Friedler
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn48198
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- textual record
- Physical Description
- Book : printed, bound, drawn : beige, black, red ; Ht: 22,4 cm x W: 30,2 cm
- Date
- 1947
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- textual record
- Physical Description
- Book : printed, bound, drawn : beige, black, red ; Ht: 22,4 cm x W: 30,2 cm
- Other Title Information
- Documentary Artifact
- Date
- 1947
- Creator
- -
- Physical Condition
- Poor
- Language
- English
- Hebrew
- Notes
- 44 pages, softcover, stapled spine, title written in Hebrew on the front cover and in English on the back cover. Book starts off with 2 pages of text, continues with 1 sketch per page with hebrew captions, some sketches have been coloured in with red pencil-crayon. Narrative: A series of sketches depicting scenes from concentration camps.
- Accession No.
- 2012X.79.01
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
Images
Ballot
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn45477
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- textual record
- Physical Description
- Ballot : paper : printed, handwritten : ink : green, black ; Ht: 6 in. x W: 4,5 in.
- Date
- April 10, 1932
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- textual record
- Physical Description
- Ballot : paper : printed, handwritten : ink : green, black ; Ht: 6 in. x W: 4,5 in.
- Other Title Information
- Documentary Artifact
- Date
- April 10, 1932
- Physical Condition
- Good
- Language
- German
- Notes
- Voting ballot containing a table with the names of three candidates and circles to cast one's vote. Ballot for the second round of the 1932 presidential elections in Germany. The voter has made an X beside Adolf Hitler's name. Narrative: 1st round took place on 1932-03-13. Second round took place on 1932-04-10. The results of the second round were: Hindenburg (Christian conservatives): 53%, Hitler (NSDAP):36.8%, Thälmann (KPD): 10.2%.
- Accession No.
- 2011X.58.187
- Name Access
- MHMC
- Places
- Germany, Europe
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
Images
Bank deposit form
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn59823
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- textual record
- Physical Description
- Bank deposit form : wood : Printed : ink : Beige, Black ; Ht: 21 cm x W: 14,5 cm
- Date
- December 21, 1955
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- textual record
- Physical Description
- Bank deposit form : wood : Printed : ink : Beige, Black ; Ht: 21 cm x W: 14,5 cm
- Other Title Information
- Documentary Artifact
- Date
- December 21, 1955
- Physical Condition
- Good
- Language
- German
- Notes
- Bank Draft for Roza Meldung, letterhead from Georg Hauck & Sohn, Frankfurt A.M., from the Rhein-Ruhr Bank, sent to Mrs. Samuel Meldung in Montreal, for 8,147.50DM Narrative: Samuel Meldung was born in Tomaszow, Poland, on 25 November 1908. He measured 5'3'', had black hair and brown eyes. He also had the number A 19443 tattooed on his left forearm. He worked as a tailor during before the war. His wife, Roza Jerozolimska, was born on 5 March 1914 in Warsaw, Poland. She had the number A 14208 on her left forearm. They were married 13 October 1947, and immigrated to Canada 13 January 1948.
- Accession No.
- 2007.5.4
- Name Access
- Blitt, Pinja
- Places
- Frankfurt, Germany, Europe
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
Images
Bank deposit form
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn59824
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- textual record
- Physical Description
- Bank deposit form : paper : printed : ink : Beige, Black ; Ht: 21 cm x W: 14,5 cm
- Date
- December 21, 1955
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- textual record
- Physical Description
- Bank deposit form : paper : printed : ink : Beige, Black ; Ht: 21 cm x W: 14,5 cm
- Other Title Information
- Documentary Artifact
- Date
- December 21, 1955
- Physical Condition
- Good
- Language
- German
- Notes
- Bank Draft printed form, typed-in, letterhead from Georg Hauck & Sohn, Frankfurt A.M., from the Rhein-Ruhr Bank, sent to Rosa Meldung in Montreal, for 8,288DM Narrative: Samuel Meldung was born in Tomaszow, Poland, on 25 November 1908. He measured 5'3'', had black hair and brown eyes. He also had the number A 19443 tattooed on his left forearm. He worked as a tailor during before the war. His wife, Roza Jerozolimska, was born on 5 March 1914 in Warsaw, Poland. She had the number A 14208 on her left forearm. They were married 13 October 1947, and immigrated to Canada 13 January 1948.
- Accession No.
- 2007.5.5
- Name Access
- Blitt, Pinja
- Places
- Frankfurt, Germany, Europe
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
Images
BER, Gedalia
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/genealogy7722
- Collection
- JEWISH IMMIGRANT AID SERVICES (JIAS)
- Material Type
- textual record
- Archival / Genealogical
- Genealogy Records
- Collection
- JEWISH IMMIGRANT AID SERVICES (JIAS)
- Material Type
- textual record
- Spouse
- Beila
- Children
- Jahewet
- Date File Opened
- May 16, 1949
- Arrival Date
- May 16, 1949
- Place of Birth
- Germany
- Record Source
- JIAS Montreal Client Cards
- Fonds No.
- I0037
- Series No.
- R
- File No.
- 03-2843
- Restrictions
- Due to privacy laws, access to further information about this record is restricted. You may contact the Canadian Jewish Archives to learn more.
- Archival / Genealogical
- Genealogy Records
- Repository
- Canadian Jewish Archives
BERKO, Jankel
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/genealogy7929
- Collection
- JEWISH IMMIGRANT AID SERVICES (JIAS)
- Material Type
- textual record
- Archival / Genealogical
- Genealogy Records
- Collection
- JEWISH IMMIGRANT AID SERVICES (JIAS)
- Material Type
- textual record
- Place of Birth
- Germany
- Record Source
- JIAS Montreal Client Cards
- Fonds No.
- I0037
- Series No.
- R
- File No.
- 04-18
- Restrictions
- Due to privacy laws, access to further information about this record is restricted. You may contact the Canadian Jewish Archives to learn more.
- Archival / Genealogical
- Genealogy Records
- Repository
- Canadian Jewish Archives
BERNSTEIN, Alfred
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/genealogy92394
- Collection
- JEWISH IMMIGRANT AID SERVICES (JIAS)
- Material Type
- textual record
- Archival / Genealogical
- Genealogy Records
- Collection
- JEWISH IMMIGRANT AID SERVICES (JIAS)
- Material Type
- textual record
- Spouse
- Nora
- Date File Opened
- October 20, 1949
- Place of Birth
- Germany
- Record Source
- JIAS Montreal Client Cards
- Fonds No.
- I0037
- Series No.
- R
- File No.
- 04-368
- Restrictions
- Due to privacy laws, access to further information about this record is restricted. You may contact the Canadian Jewish Archives to learn more.
- Archival / Genealogical
- Genealogy Records
- Repository
- Canadian Jewish Archives
BILDER aus dem ALTJÜDISCHEN FAMILIEN - LEBEN - Pictures from the old Jewish family life.
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn44300
- Collection
- CONGREGATION SHAAR HASHOMAYIM MUSEUM AND ARCHIVES
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- textual record
- Physical Description
- Book : b&w ; Ht:33.5 cm x W:25.5 cm : German
- Fonds No.
- SH-01; 675
- Date
- [ca. 1900]
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- textual record
- Physical Description
- Book : b&w ; Ht:33.5 cm x W:25.5 cm : German
- Other Title Information
- Photo album
- Date
- [ca. 1900]
- Publication
- Published by Heinrich Keller : Printed by R. Baist
- Fonds No.
- SH-01
- Item No.
- 675
- Physical Condition
- Fair
- Notes
- Photographs of paintings by Prof. M. Oppenheim taken by J. Schäfer. Includes a biographical introduction and descriptions by Leopold Stein Content: 1. Sabbath-Anfang; 2. Der Segen des Rabbi; 3. Sabbath-Nachmittag; 4. Sabbath-Ruhe; 5. Oster-Abend; 6. Die Hochzeit Publisher's address: Frankfurt am Main, Germany.
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Congregation Shaar Hashomayim Museum and Archives
Documents
Images
BIRNBAUM, Lazarus
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/genealogy90634
- Collection
- JEWISH IMMIGRANT AID SERVICES (JIAS)
- Material Type
- textual record
- Archival / Genealogical
- Genealogy Records
- Collection
- JEWISH IMMIGRANT AID SERVICES (JIAS)
- Material Type
- textual record
- Spouse
- Frieda
- Children
- Merzenik
- Date File Opened
- January 11, 1952
- Place of Birth
- Germany
- Record Source
- JIAS Montreal Client Cards
- Fonds No.
- I0037
- Series No.
- R
- File No.
- 04-1108
- Restrictions
- Due to privacy laws, access to further information about this record is restricted. You may contact the Canadian Jewish Archives to learn more.
- Archival / Genealogical
- Genealogy Records
- Repository
- Canadian Jewish Archives
Birth certificate
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn51278
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- textual record
- Physical Description
- Birth certificate : Paper : Ink : Beige, Black, Green ; Ht: 8 in. x W: 5,75 in.
- Date
- May 21, 1947
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- textual record
- Physical Description
- Birth certificate : Paper : Ink : Beige, Black, Green ; Ht: 8 in. x W: 5,75 in.
- Other Title Information
- Documentary Artifact
- Date
- May 21, 1947
- Physical Condition
- Good
- Language
- German
- Notes
- 1 page, One-sided with a circular ink stamp on the bottom left of the page. Birth certificate for Max Beer. Narrative: Max is the son of Genia and Leo Beer. Genia (Gitla) Paris Eizenberg Beer, was born was born on July 7, 1916 in Radom Poland to Chaim Mordechai and Ruchla Paris. She had two sisters Devora and Freindel and five younger brothers. Both of her parents and all her siblings perished in the Holocaust except for one sister who went to Palestine in the late 1930s. Genia married Israel Einzenberg and had a child when the Holocaust broke out. Both were killed. During the war she was incarcerated in the Szarzysko Kamiena labor camp for three years. After the war she met her second husband, Leo (Leyb) Beer. Leo Beer was born in 1908 in Uhniv (Uhnow in Polish), a small shtetl called near Lviv, Poland (today Ukraine). Leo joined the soviet Army and was wounded in a German attack where he lost the use of his left arm. He was then transferred to Tashkent, Uzbekistan until the end of the conflict. His two brothers and mother were killed in the Holocaust. His father, who had immigrated to Canada in the late 1920s survived. Leo went back to Poland after the war, where he met Genia. In 1946, antisemitic pogroms in Poland led them to flee toward the East through Czechoslovakia. They settled in the Displaced Persons camp of Pocking, in Germany. Max, was born on May 18, 1847 in a UNRRA hospital. The Beer family landed in Canada on January 18, 1949.
- Accession No.
- 2011X.56.04
- Name Access
- Beer, Max
- Places
- Pocking, Germany, Europe
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
Images
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