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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
Images
Chaja Kaszemacher
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn78386
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- Photograph : Paper : printed : Ink : B&W ; Ht: 9,6 cm x W: 7,1 cm
- Date
- 1932
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- Photograph : Paper : printed : Ink : B&W ; Ht: 9,6 cm x W: 7,1 cm
- Other Title Information
- Documentary Artifact
- Date
- 1932
- Physical Condition
- Excellent
- Notes
- B&W photograph. Outdoors. A young woman is laying in the grass with a tennis racquet. She is wearing a white outfit with a black belt. The photograph shows her head and torso. A hand is placed on her shoulder. Narrative: Chaja Kaszemacher, nee Bajwelcwajg, was born in Warsaw, Poland. She lived in Paris where she gave birth to Jacques and Janine Kaszemacher. She died on 1943-10-26 in the Drancy transit camp near Paris, France.
- Accession No.
- 2014.24.01
- Name Access
- Kasma, Puck
- Places
- Paris, France, Europe
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
Images
Jacques Kasma
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn78436
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- Photograph : Paper : printed : Ink : B&W ; Ht: 13,6 cm x W: 8,5 cm
- Date
- March 11, 1936
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- Photograph : Paper : printed : Ink : B&W ; Ht: 13,6 cm x W: 8,5 cm
- Other Title Information
- Documentary Artifact
- Date
- March 11, 1936
- Physical Condition
- Excellent
- Language
- French
- Notes
- B&W photograph with white border. Indoors. Portrait of Jacques Kasma when he was six months old. He is dressed in a winter outfit with boots, coat and a hat. Printed on a postcard from "Ateliers Jérome". 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.
- 2014.24.04
- Name Access
- Kasma, Puck
- Places
- Paris, France, Europe
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
Images
Jacques Kasma and his father Uszer Kaszemacher
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn78437
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- Photograph : Paper : printed : Ink : B&W ; Ht: 12,1 cm x W: 8 cm
- Date
- April 03, 1937
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- Photograph : Paper : printed : Ink : B&W ; Ht: 12,1 cm x W: 8 cm
- Other Title Information
- Documentary Artifact
- Date
- April 03, 1937
- Physical Condition
- Excellent
- Language
- French
- Notes
- B&W photograph with a decorative border. Indoors. On the l., a man wears a black suit and, on the r., a child is holding a ball. Portrait of Jacques Kasma at age 2 with his father, Uszer Kaszemacher. 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.
- 2014.24.05
- Name Access
- Kasma, Puck
- Places
- Paris, France, Europe
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
Images
Jacques Kasma and his sister
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn78438
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- Photograph : Paper : printed : Ink : B&W ; Ht: 12,5 cm x W: 8,2 cm
- Date
- December 01, 1937
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- Photograph : Paper : printed : Ink : B&W ; Ht: 12,5 cm x W: 8,2 cm
- Other Title Information
- Documentary Artifact
- Date
- December 01, 1937
- Physical Condition
- Excellent
- Language
- French
- Notes
- B&W photograph with a decorative border. Indoors. Portrait of Jacques Kasma at age 3 with his baby sister, Jeannine Kaszemacher. On the r, the baby is wearing a winter outfit. On the l., young Jacques Kasma is wearing a coat, a dark scarf and a black hat. 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.
- 2014.24.06
- Name Access
- Kasma, Puck
- Places
- Paris, France, Europe
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
Images
Jacques Kasma and his sister
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn78439
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- Photograph : Paper : printed : Ink : B&W ; Ht: 7,2 cm x W: 12,4 cm
- Date
- May 17, 1941
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- Photograph : Paper : printed : Ink : B&W ; Ht: 7,2 cm x W: 12,4 cm
- Other Title Information
- Documentary Artifact
- Date
- May 17, 1941
- Physical Condition
- Good
- Language
- Hebrew
- Notes
- B&W photograph with a white background. Indoors. Portrait of Jacques Kasma at age 6 with his sister, Jeannine Kaszemacher. Jacques Kasma, on the r, is wearing a trenchcoat looking jacket. On the l., his sister is wearing a white outfit and a matching bow on her head. 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.
- 2014.24.07
- Name Access
- Kasma, Puck
- Places
- Paris, France, Europe
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
Images
Jacques Kasma and his sister
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn78440
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- Photograph : Paper : printed : Ink : B&W ; Ht: 12,3 cm x W: 8,2 cm
- Date
- [ca. 1939]
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- Photograph : Paper : printed : Ink : B&W ; Ht: 12,3 cm x W: 8,2 cm
- Other Title Information
- Documentary Artifact
- Date
- [ca. 1939]
- Physical Condition
- Excellent
- Language
- French
- Notes
- B&W photograph with a decorative border. Indoors. Portrait of Jacques Kasma as a child with his sister. On the l, Jeannine Kaszemacher is wearing a white shirt, a dark skirt, high white socks and boots. Jacques Kasma, on the l., is wearing a black outfit. 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.
- 2014.24.08
- Name Access
- Kasma, Puck
- Places
- Paris, France, Europe
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
Images
Jacques Kasma and his sister
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn78441
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- Photograph : Paper : printed : Ink : B&W ; Ht: 7,9 cm x W: 12,4 cm
- Date
- January 19, 1943
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- Photograph : Paper : printed : Ink : B&W ; Ht: 7,9 cm x W: 12,4 cm
- Other Title Information
- Documentary Artifact
- Date
- January 19, 1943
- Physical Condition
- Excellent
- Notes
- B&W photograph with a decorative border. Indoors. Portrait of Jacques Kasma at age 8 and his sister Janine. Both of the children are wearing winter jacket and black berets. 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.
- 2014.24.09
- Name Access
- Kasma, Puck
- Places
- Paris, France, Europe
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
Images
Jacques Kasma's parents
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn78435
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- Photograph : Paper : printed : Ink : B&W ; Ht: 13,5 cm x W: 8,2 cm
- Date
- May 14, 1933
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- Photograph : Paper : printed : Ink : B&W ; Ht: 13,5 cm x W: 8,2 cm
- Other Title Information
- Documentary Artifact
- Date
- May 14, 1933
- Physical Condition
- Excellent
- Notes
- B&W photograph with borders. Indoors. Portrait of three women and a man. Jacques Kasma's, Uszer and Chaja Kaszemacher, are in the middle. Printed on a postal card from "Ateliers Jérome". Narrative: Uszer Kaszemacher and Chaja Kaszemacher, maiden name Bajwelcwajg, lived in Paris where she gave birth to Jacques and Jeannine Kaszemacher.
- Accession No.
- 2014.24.03
- Name Access
- Kasma, Puck
- Places
- Paris, France, Europe
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
Images
Marguerite Elias’ uncle and father in Paris
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn90286
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- Photograph : Paper : Printed : photograph : b&w ; Ht: 13.4 cm x W: 8.4 cm
- Date
- 1933-1935
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- Photograph : Paper : Printed : photograph : b&w ; Ht: 13.4 cm x W: 8.4 cm
- Other Title Information
- Documentary Artifact
- Date
- 1933-1935
- Physical Condition
- Good
- Notes
- White border. Formal studio portrait. A man in military uniform stands next to a man seated on a stool wearing a suit. The man standing has his arm around the seated man. The seated man is the donor's father Maurice, the man in uniform is his brother Leon. 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 on April 19, 1942.
- Accession No.
- 2000.34.05
- Name Access
- Elias, Marguerite
- Places
- Paris, France, Europe
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
Images
Muguette Myers
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn45624
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- Photograph : Paper : photography : black, white ; Ht: 26 cm x W: 19 cm
- Date
- 1941
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- Photograph : Paper : photography : black, white ; Ht: 26 cm x W: 19 cm
- Other Title Information
- Documentary Artifact
- Date
- 1941
- Physical Condition
- Good
- Notes
- b&w. Portrait. 3/4 oval portrait of a young girl with short brown hair. She is wearing a Star of David which reads “Juif”. The border outside the oval is motled grey and white.
- Accession No.
- 1998.19.02
- Name Access
- Myers, Muguette
- Places
- Paris, France, Europe
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
Images
Portrait of Arthur Ber
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn76681
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- Photograph : Ht: 9,3 cm x W: 6,5 cm
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- Photograph : Ht: 9,3 cm x W: 6,5 cm
- Other Title Information
- Documentary Artifact
- Physical Condition
- Good
- Notes
- B&w photograph with a white border. A portrait of a young man wearing a light coloured, French army uniform. The man in the photograph is Arthur Ber. Narrative: Arthur Ber was born on March 3, 1920 in Warsaw. He was the son of Judka-Leib Beer and Liba Gudrot. He was the donor's uncle.
- Accession No.
- 2012.20.02
- Name Access
- Allen, Stéphane John
- Places
- Paris, France, Europe
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
Images
Portrait of Arthur Ber
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn76682
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- Photograph : Ht: 14,6 cm x W: 9,8 cm
- Date
- 1933
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- Photograph : Ht: 14,6 cm x W: 9,8 cm
- Other Title Information
- Documentary Artifact
- Date
- 1933
- Physical Condition
- Poor
- Language
- English
- French
- Notes
- B&w photograph with a white border. A portrait of a young man wearing a dark coloured, French army uniform. The color of the man's jacket has the number 150 marked on each corner. The man in the photograph is Arthur Ber. Narrative: Arthur Ber was born on March 3, 1920 in Warsaw. He was the son of Judka-Leib Beer and Liba Gudrot. He was the donor's uncle.
- Accession No.
- 2012.20.03
- Name Access
- Allen, Stéphane John
- Places
- Paris, France, Europe
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
Images
Portrait of Judka-Leib Beer
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn76683
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- Photograph : Ht: 13,1 cm x W: 8,7 cm
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- Photograph : Ht: 13,1 cm x W: 8,7 cm
- Other Title Information
- Documentary Artifact
- Physical Condition
- Poor
- Notes
- B&w photograph with a white border. A portrait of a man wearing a dark coloured suit, standing in front of a wall with a curtain draped to the left. The man is missing his left leg and is using crutches to remain upright. The man depicted in the photograph is Judka-Leib Beer. Narrative: Judka-Leib Beer was born in 1877 in Warsaw. He was married to Liba Gudrot and had three children named Hélène, Arthur and Ezosza. He was the donor's grandfather.
- Accession No.
- 2012.20.04
- Name Access
- Allen, Stéphane John
- Places
- Paris, France, Europe
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
Images
Portrait of Judka-Leib Beer
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn76684
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- Photograph : Ht: 24,7 cm x W: 18,8 cm
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- Photograph : Ht: 24,7 cm x W: 18,8 cm
- Other Title Information
- Documentary Artifact
- Physical Condition
- Good
- Language
- French
- Notes
- B&w photograph with a white border. A portrait of a man wearing a dark coloured hat and suit with a white shirt and a diagonally striped tie. The man is not smiling in the photograph. The man depicted is Judka-Leib Beer. Narrative: Judka-Leib Beer was born in 1877 in Warsaw. He was married to Liba Gudrot and had three children named Hélène, Arthur and Ezosza. He was the donor's grandfather.
- Accession No.
- 2012.20.05
- Name Access
- Allen, Stéphane John
- Places
- Paris, France, Europe
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
Images
Portrait of Liba Gudrot
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn76685
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- Photograph : Ht: 24,5 cm x W: 18,8 cm
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- Photograph : Ht: 24,5 cm x W: 18,8 cm
- Other Title Information
- Documentary Artifact
- Physical Condition
- Good
- Notes
- B&w photograph with a white border. A portrait of a woman wearing a striped blouse with a blazer over it. Her hair is pulled back. The woman that is depicted is Liba Gudrot. Narrative: Liba Gudrot was married to Judka-Leib Beer and had three children named Hélène, Arthur and Ezosza. She was the donor's grandmother.
- Accession No.
- 2012.20.06
- Name Access
- Allen, Stéphane John
- Places
- Paris, France, Europe
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
Images
Rue du Clos Thonesse in Vernouillet
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn78532
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- Postcard : Paper : ink : Beige, black, white ; Ht: 8,7 cm x W: 14 cm
- Date
- April 17, 1939
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- Postcard : Paper : ink : Beige, black, white ; Ht: 8,7 cm x W: 14 cm
- Other Title Information
- Documentary Artifact
- Date
- April 17, 1939
- Language
- French
- Notes
- On recto is a b&w photograph of a street in Vernouillet. On verso is a handwirtten message and address with three postal stamps on top right and postal ink stamps. Postcard sent from Rachel Philipson and her cousin Ruth to Rachel's father Serge Philipson in Galway. 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.
- 2002.08.267
- Name Access
- Levy, Rachel
- Places
- Paris, France, Europe
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
Images
Uszer Kaszemacher and Szyja Wolnowicz dancing
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn78447
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- Photograph : Paper : printed : Paper : B&W ; Ht: 17,9 cm x W: 12,8 cm
- Date
- [Later than 1945]
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- Photograph : Paper : printed : Paper : B&W ; Ht: 17,9 cm x W: 12,8 cm
- Other Title Information
- Documentary Artifact
- Date
- [Later than 1945]
- Physical Condition
- Excellent
- Notes
- B&W photograph with border. Indoors. Uszer Kaszemacher and Szyja Wolnowicz are dancing. Narrative: Uszer Hersz Kaszemacher, also known as Henric Kasmacher, was born on 1913-04-05 in Parczew (Poland). He married Chaja Sura Bajwelcwajg, born 1915-05-19 in Warsaw (Poland). They had two children, Jacques born in 1935 and 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. Henri Kasmacher survived the war and came back to France and remarried to Ida Wolnowicz. Their children survived in hiding.
- Accession No.
- 2014.24.20
- Name Access
- Kasma, Puck
- Places
- Paris, France, Europe
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
Images
Varsovie.
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn75158
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- Print : paper : Printed : Ink : b&w ; Ht: 6 7/8 in. x W: 10 1/2 in.
- Date
- [Prior to 1899]
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- Print : paper : Printed : Ink : b&w ; Ht: 6 7/8 in. x W: 10 1/2 in.
- Other Title Information
- Original Art, Work on Paper
- Date
- [Prior to 1899]
- Creator
- -
- Physical Condition
- Good
- Language
- French
- Notes
- 1 page, single-sided. Print of an etching. Centered image with large border on all sides. Outdoor scene illustration that shows Castle Square in Warsaw. In the middle of the square is Sigismund's Column, a 1644 column and statue commemorating King Sigismund III Vasa. On both sides of the square are buildings. The square is filled with people and horses.
- Accession No.
- 1991.13.01
- Name Access
- Allen, Misha
- Places
- Paris, France, Europe
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
Images
Wedding group portrait
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn78434
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- Photograph : Paper : printed : Ink : B&W ; Ht: 15,8 cm x W: 11,7 cm
- Date
- April 29, 1933
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- Photograph : Paper : printed : Ink : B&W ; Ht: 15,8 cm x W: 11,7 cm
- Other Title Information
- Documentary Artifact
- Date
- April 29, 1933
- Physical Condition
- Excellent
- Language
- French
- Notes
- B&W photograph without borders. Indoors. Wedding portrait. Eight adults and a baby sitting on a woman's lap on the left. Uszer and Chaja Kaszemacher are the first couple on the t.l. Narrative: Uszer Kaszemacher and Chaja Kaszemacher, maiden name Bajwelcwajg, lived in Paris where she gave birth to Jacques and Jeannine Kaszemacher.
- Accession No.
- 2014.24.02
- Name Access
- Kasma, Puck
- Places
- Paris, France, Europe
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
Images
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