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Certificate

https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn47035
Collection
Montreal Holocaust Museum
Description Level
Item
Material Type
textual record
Physical Description
Certificate : Paper : beige, black, green, red ; Ht: 6,25 in. x W: 4,5 in.
Date
September 19, 1940
Collection
Montreal Holocaust Museum
Description Level
Item
Material Type
textual record
Physical Description
Certificate : Paper : beige, black, green, red ; Ht: 6,25 in. x W: 4,5 in.
Other Title Information
Documentary Artifact
Date
September 19, 1940
Physical Condition
Good
Language
French
Lithuanian
Notes
Certificate is made of page folded n four and glued into cardboard cover. Three identity pictures are glued onto the centre left of the page. Three fiscal stamps are glued at the bottom left of the page. Back of the page shows 6 Russian fiscal stamps and different ink stamps. Narrative: This is a transit visa for Arthur and Miriam Lermer and their child. The Lermer family was granted visas by Chiune Sugihara, the Japanese consul in Lithuania at the time. Their visas were granted on August 16, 1940 according to the Sugihara database.
Accession No.
1998.10.01
Name Access
Lermer, Judith
Places
Kaunas, Lithuania, Europe
Archival / Genealogical
Archival Descriptions
Repository
Montreal Holocaust Museum
Images
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Group portrait with Rosa Pliskin

https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn90220
Collection
Montreal Holocaust Museum
Description Level
Item
Material Type
graphic material
Physical Description
Photograph : Paper : Printed : Ink : b&w ; Ht: 6 1/2 in. x W: 8 1/2 in.
Date
1938
Collection
Montreal Holocaust Museum
Description Level
Item
Material Type
graphic material
Physical Description
Photograph : Paper : Printed : Ink : b&w ; Ht: 6 1/2 in. x W: 8 1/2 in.
Other Title Information
Documentary Artifact
Date
1938
Notes
White border. Formal group portrait, indoors. Nine people wearing black clothes, are sitting next to each other and looking at the camera. The older woman in the front row, on the right is Ester Klupt (née Cahnin). The third person from the right in second row is Rosa Pliskin-Sokolinski. The man in the middle is Mordechai Pliskin. Narrative: Rosa Pliskin-Sokolinski (nee Klupt) was born in Kovno, Lithuania in 1898. She married Mordechai Pliskin before the war. They had at least 4 children. The family owned a store in Kovno, circa 1925, which remained open until 1941. The family sold manufactured materials for clothing. In 1941 or 1942, Rosa’s grandmother Esther Klupt (née Chanin) was shot in front of the family store with her great-grandson. Esther was 91 years old. Rosa and her relatives were sent to the ghetto. Rosa was then deported to the Stutthof concentration Camp, Poland. She arrived at the camp on July 13,1944. During her internment, Rosa Pliskin kept her clothes and accessories on her body at all times. She concealed two combs, a needle, some thread and fabric patches in a fabric pouch tied around her neck. Rosa considered these items to be very precious, she said they were "like gold to her". Her identification prisoner number at Stutthof camp was 42451. Rosa Pliskin died in 1986 in Tivon, Israel. Rosa’s husband, Mordechai Pliskin died in Dachau. Four of their children, David, Seil (Saul), Klara and one unknown perished in the Holocaust. David Pliskin, was murdered in the Ninth Forst, a Nazi killing site 4 miles from Kovno.
Accession No.
1996.06.02
Name Access
Dworkind, Cyla
Places
Kaunas, Lithuania, Europe
Archival / Genealogical
Archival Descriptions
Repository
Montreal Holocaust Museum
Images
Less detail