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Certificate, baptismal
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn48280
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- textual record
- Physical Description
- Certificate, baptismal : paper : beige ; Ht: 28 cm x W: 21,6 cm
- Date
- May 07, 1962
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- textual record
- Physical Description
- Certificate, baptismal : paper : beige ; Ht: 28 cm x W: 21,6 cm
- Other Title Information
- Documentary Artifact
- Date
- May 07, 1962
- Physical Condition
- Good
- Language
- French
- Notes
- Copy of an extract of baptism certificate of Celinka (Cecile) Zilberbogen. The copy is certified and signed by the chaplain of Mazanet. Narrative: Celinka (Cécile) Zilberbogen is born on July 12 1937. She is the daughter of Simon and Chana Zilberbogen. Photograph was taken aboard Columbia ship en route to Canada. 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.
- 2012.15.73
- Name Access
- Peltier, Cécile
- Places
- Mazanet, France, Europe
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
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