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Identification card
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn45468
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- textual record
- Physical Description
- Identification card : cardstock : printed, handwritten, stamped : ink : beige, grey, black, yellow, white ; Ht: 6 in. x W: 4 in.
- Date
- January 4, 1939
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- textual record
- Physical Description
- Identification card : cardstock : printed, handwritten, stamped : ink : beige, grey, black, yellow, white ; Ht: 6 in. x W: 4 in.
- Other Title Information
- Documentary Artifact
- Date
- January 4, 1939
- Physical Condition
- Excellent
- Language
- German
- Notes
- Double-panel kennkarte marked with an orange "J" for Marie Louise Sara Cahn. The front is beige with a darker yellow-beige pattern. The right panel has a b&w portrait at t.l. and fingerprints at t.r.. There are four circular Reichsadler ink stamps issued by the presidential police in Mainz, as well as a blue postage stamp from 1938 at the b.r. of the left panel. Issued 1939-01-04, expiry date 1944-01-04. The verso is plain grey with black lettering. Narrative: William M. Birks, oldest son of Henry Birks used to buy jewelry and silver from the factory owned by Frank Cahn’s grandparents. The two families had known each other from before World War I. Frank’s grandmother asked Mr Birks for his help. The original plan was to send only Frank to Canada but after Karl (Frank’s father) was sent to Buchenwald, they sent an urgent cable to Mr. Birks, asking for his help for the entire family. Eventually, visas were issued in Hamburg by the Canadian Consul on January 23, 1939 for Karl, his wife Marie, their 3 sons Frank, Robert and Paul and Marie’s mother, Elise Leitschen. The permission to go to Canada made it possible Karl’s immediate release. The whole family arrived in Halifax on March 5, 1939.
- Accession No.
- 2011X.34.01
- Name Access
- Cahn, Frank
- Places
- Mainz, Germany, Europe
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
Images
Identification card
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn75137
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- textual record
- Physical Description
- Identification card : Paper : Ink : Grey, Black, Yellow, Blue ; Ht: 6 in. x W: 4 in.
- Date
- January 4, 1939-January 04, 1944
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- textual record
- Physical Description
- Identification card : Paper : Ink : Grey, Black, Yellow, Blue ; Ht: 6 in. x W: 4 in.
- Other Title Information
- Documentary Artifact
- Date
- January 4, 1939-January 04, 1944
- Physical Condition
- Excellent
- Language
- German
- Notes
- Double-panel document with vertical fold down centre. Cover has large black J printed on front, under 'Deutches Reich' (German Reich, trad.) Document issued to Karl Friedrich Cahn, of Mainz, Germany, on January 4, 1939. As per Nazi racial laws, Mr. Cahn has taken on the middle name of 'Israel' as an identifying measure. There is a large yellow J printed on the inner left panel. Document numbered A 00030, expiration date January 4, 1944. Small b&w photograph of cardholder on right panel affixed with staples, 2 fingerprints in black ink on right of photo. Under photo is cardholder's signature. At bottom of panel is signature and stamp of the President of the Police in Mainz. Narrative: Karl Friedrich Cahn was the father of the donor, Frank (Franz) Cahn. The Cahn family (Frank, his 2 brothers, his parents and maternal grandmother) obtained visas and ewere able to immigrate to Canada, arriving in Halifax on March 5, 1939. The visas had been requested by William M. BIrks as a personal favor from then-Prime Minister William Mackenzie King. William M. Birks, a prominent Montreal businessman, had purchased goods from the Cahn jewelery factory before the war, and knew Frank's grandparents. As the situation for Jews in Germany grew increasingly desperate, his grandmother wrote to Mr. Birks and asked him for help. Karl had been sent to Buchenwald during Kristallnacht, and the entry visa to Canada enabled his release from the concentration camp.
- Accession No.
- 1996.09.02
- Name Access
- Cahn, Frank
- Places
- Mainz, Germany, Europe
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
Images
Letter
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn78416
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- textual record
- Physical Description
- Letter : Paper : printed, typed, stamped : Ink : beige, purple, black, blue ; Ht: 29,7 cm x W: 21 cm
- Date
- April 18, 1961
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- textual record
- Physical Description
- Letter : Paper : printed, typed, stamped : Ink : beige, purple, black, blue ; Ht: 29,7 cm x W: 21 cm
- Other Title Information
- Documentary Artifact
- Date
- April 18, 1961
- Physical Condition
- Good
- Language
- German
- Notes
- 1 page. Two-sided. The text was printed with purple ink and typed-in with black ink. The letter was sent to Max Mondschein by the District Office of Reparation regarding compensation for his internment during the NSDAP regime. Narrative: Max Mondschein was born in Husiatyn (Austro-Hungarian Empire, later Poland, today Ukraine) on 1908-03-16. He moved to Vienna (Austria) early in life. On 1939-09-11, Max Mondschein was deported to the Buchenwald concentration camp as a political prisoner. He was transferred to Auschwitz on 1942-10 where he received the Prisoner Number: 68 585. He was transported to Buna to serve as forced laborer for the I.G. Farben chemical industry from 1942-12 to 1944-12. From 1944-12 to 1945-04, he was confined in a camp near the town for Ellrich, Germany. He was used as forced laborer in the Sachsenhausen-Oranienburg concentration camp in 1945-04 and was liberated on 1945-05-02. After the war, he lived in a Displaced Persons Camp in Germany where he met his wife Renia Maszenberg. He came to Canada in October 1947 and settled in Montreal.
- Accession No.
- 2014.23.34
- Name Access
- Janulaitis, Cynthia M.
- Places
- Mainz, Germany, Europe
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
Images
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