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Moishe Rosenblatt and family
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn45587
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- Photograph : paper; cardboard : photography : black, white, beige ; Ht: 7 1/2 in. x W: 9 1/4 in.
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- Photograph : paper; cardboard : photography : black, white, beige ; Ht: 7 1/2 in. x W: 9 1/4 in.
- Other Title Information
- Documentary Artifact
- Physical Condition
- Excellent
- Language
- English
- Russian
- Notes
- b&w, indoor group portrait. Moishe Rosenblatt and his wife pose wearing dress clothes and sitting on chairs, with two young children between them. An older woman, Moishe's mother, stands beside him with her arm over his shoulder, and an older child stands on her other side and holds her hand. There is a dark curtain on the left and photos and a flower arrangement on the table on the right. The photo is framed with beige lines and curlicues.
- Accession No.
- 1988.01.42
- Name Access
- Sourkes, Shana
- Places
- Kiev, Russia, Europe
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
Images
Abraham Rosenblatt in uniform
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn45594
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- Photograph : paper : photography : black, white ; Ht: 5 1/2 in. x W: 3 1/2 in.
- Date
- [ca. 1917]
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- Photograph : paper : photography : black, white ; Ht: 5 1/2 in. x W: 3 1/2 in.
- Other Title Information
- Documentary Artifact
- Date
- [ca. 1917]
- Physical Condition
- Excellent
- Notes
- b&w, indoor portrait. A man in full uniform standing at attention in front of an elaborate painted background. He wears a dark uniform with a double row of silver buttons, epaulettes, a belt with metal buckle, tall leather boots, and a hat.
- Accession No.
- 1988.01.22
- Name Access
- Sourkes, Shana
- Places
- Russia, Europe
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
Images
Grisha and Yura on a bench
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn45598
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- Photograph : paper : photography : black, white ; Ht: 4 6/8 in. x W: 3 1/8 in.
- Date
- [Prior to 1939]
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- Photograph : paper : photography : black, white ; Ht: 4 6/8 in. x W: 3 1/8 in.
- Other Title Information
- Documentary Artifact
- Date
- [Prior to 1939]
- Physical Condition
- Excellent
- Language
- English
- Notes
- b&w, indoor portrait. Two young boys sitting on a rustic bench in front of a painted backdrop of trees. They are wearing identical knitted sweaters and pants, with knee-high dark boots, and carrying wicker boxes with handles. The boy on the left has his legs crossed and is leaning into the boy on the right. Postcard back. Narrative: Grisha and Yura Lehrman, Tanya's children. Tanya was Ginda Kalujna’s oldest sister who lived in the Soviet Union. Ginda Kalujna Rosenblatt was born in 1891. She was a graduate of the Women’s Medical Institute of Saint Vladimir University, Kiev. Dr. Rosenblatt and her family immigrated to Toronto in May, 1934. Although she fulfilled the requirements for an M.D. degree at the University of Toronto, she chose to devote the rest of her career to social work. Dr. Rosenblatt died in 1986.
- Accession No.
- 1988.01.19
- Name Access
- Sourkes, Shana
- Places
- Russia, Europe
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
Images
Obóz Zaglady
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn45728
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- textual record
- Physical Description
- Book : Ht: 22,3 cm x W: 15,4 cm
- Date
- 1944
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- textual record
- Physical Description
- Book : Ht: 22,3 cm x W: 15,4 cm
- Other Title Information
- Documentary Artifact
- Date
- 1944
- Creator
- Simonow, Konstanty
- Physical Condition
- Poor
- Language
- Russian
- Polish
- Notes
- 24 pages printed in black. Front cover is beige with yellow and black design of a concentration camp barrack, smoke coming out of a chimney and barbed wires. Includes pictures of victims, piles of bodies.
- Accession No.
- 2011.52.06
- Places
- Moscow, Russia (Europe)
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
Images
Obóz W Majdanku
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn45729
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- textual record
- Physical Description
- Book : Ht: 14 cm x W: 11 cm
- Date
- 1944
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- textual record
- Physical Description
- Book : Ht: 14 cm x W: 11 cm
- Other Title Information
- Documentary Artifact
- Date
- 1944
- Creator
- Gorbatow, Borys
- Physical Condition
- Poor
- Language
- Russian
- Polish
- Notes
- Small book with a beige cardstock cover. The front cover has black lines on the top and the bottom (focus on the title). The document is printed in black and contains 47 pages. An inscription is written on the bottom of the back cover (most likely in Russian).
- Accession No.
- 2011.52.07
- Places
- Moscow, Russia (Europe)
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
Images
Cigarette case
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn47593
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- object
- Physical Description
- Cigarette case : cast (moulded), engraved, hinged, beveled : silver ; Ht: 5 cm x W: 10,5 cm x De: 6,7 cm
- Date
- May 1, 1943
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- object
- Physical Description
- Cigarette case : cast (moulded), engraved, hinged, beveled : silver ; Ht: 5 cm x W: 10,5 cm x De: 6,7 cm
- Other Title Information
- Personal Gear
- Date
- May 1, 1943
- Physical Condition
- Good
- Notes
- Shallow, rectangular tin with engravings on the top, front and bottom sides. The top has a textured border with a scroll going diagonally across the middle and designs at the top left and bottom right corners. The front side has a diamond in the middle, with 3 horizontal lines on each side. On the bottom, there is a star in between 2 lines of text (see inscription). Tool striations are found outside and inside, with additional tool marks on the inside. The bottom compartment has a slight indent along the edge, so that the top sits flush when closed. Narrative: Made in labour camp in Siberia. Originally belonged to Lajos Schwartz in Karinszky, Kirovszky, Siberia Lager 101. Given to him on 24th birthday, May 1, 1943.
- Accession No.
- 2000.54.01
- Name Access
- Romer, Irene
- Places
- Russia, Europe
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
Images
Bemidbar
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn47648
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- book
- Physical Description
- Book : printed, bound, embossed : beige, brown, blue ; Ht: 22,8 cm x W: 16,2 cm
- Date
- 1893
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- book
- Physical Description
- Book : printed, bound, embossed : beige, brown, blue ; Ht: 22,8 cm x W: 16,2 cm
- Other Title Information
- Ceremonial Artifact
- Date
- 1893
- Physical Condition
- Poor
- Language
- Russian
- Hebrew
- Yiddish
- Notes
- Torah, Part V, 300+ pages, bound in a hard, brown, faux-leather cover. Oval pattern design embossed on the front cover, surrounded by a rectangular frame. Interior pages of the book are beige; they consist of text only.
- Accession No.
- 2011X.351.01
- Name Access
- Weinbaum, Chiel
- Places
- Pietrkov ?, Russia ?, Europe
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
Images
Announcement
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn47774
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- textual record
- Physical Description
- Announcement : printed, graphic arts : grey, blue, brown, black ; Ht: 31,5 cm x W: 23,3 cm
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- textual record
- Physical Description
- Announcement : printed, graphic arts : grey, blue, brown, black ; Ht: 31,5 cm x W: 23,3 cm
- Other Title Information
- Documentary Artifact
- Physical Condition
- Good
- Language
- Russian
- Ukrainian
- Notes
- Exact page number unknown. Unbound pieces of paper (of various sizes) held in a cardstock folder. The folder has a grey front with black text and handwriting, printed near the top is a drawing of 3 books and a plume; the back of the folder is sea-blue, with no text; it has been folded in half and then a third time along the right edge, and flaps have glued to the top and bottom, preventing the pages from falling out. A red and white striped ribbon has been attached at the front and back edges, in the centre. The pages inside are brown with black cartoons and articles. Some have been folded in half, some are smaller in size. Title on the front page states: "The working peasant power : This is how the Soviet freedom looks like". Narrative: Collection of Russian WWII anti-Jewish announcements.
- Accession No.
- 2003.13.02
- Name Access
- Orshan, Sam
- Places
- Kiev ?, Russia, Europe
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
Images
Spice box
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn51359
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- object
- Physical Description
- Spice box : Silver ; Ht: 9 1/8 in. x W: 2 1/2 in.
- Date
- 1850
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- object
- Physical Description
- Spice box : Silver ; Ht: 9 1/8 in. x W: 2 1/2 in.
- Other Title Information
- Ceremonial Artifact
- Date
- 1850
- Physical Condition
- Good
- Notes
- 4 sided engraved base connects by 4 filigree stems to a 6 sided filigree spice holder with a cylindrical tower shaped topped with a flag, 6 bells hang from spice holder with 6 mini flags on top Narrative: Used for Havdalah ceremony at the end of Shabbat
- Accession No.
- 2005.26.2
- Name Access
- Tauben, Irwin
- Places
- Russia, Europe
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
Images
Currency
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn59299
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- object
- Physical Description
- Currency : Paper : Ink : purple, red, green ; Ht: 3 11/16 in. x W: 5 9/16 in.
- Date
- 1923
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- object
- Physical Description
- Currency : Paper : Ink : purple, red, green ; Ht: 3 11/16 in. x W: 5 9/16 in.
- Other Title Information
- Exchange Medium
- Date
- 1923
- Physical Condition
- Good
- Language
- Russian
- Notes
- 100 rubles bill (100 CTO PUBLEH), background inks in stripes of purple, green, red; number 100 printed in red ink in oval of green on other side
- Accession No.
- 2011X.72.15-16
- Name Access
- Becker, Hillel
- Places
- Russia, Europe
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
Images
Crowd welcoming the Communists
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn59300
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- Photograph : Paper : Ink : b&w ; Ht: 3 1/2 in. x W: 5 3/16 in.
- Date
- April 9, 1917
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- Photograph : Paper : Ink : b&w ; Ht: 3 1/2 in. x W: 5 3/16 in.
- Other Title Information
- Documentary Artifact
- Date
- April 9, 1917
- Physical Condition
- Good
- Language
- Russian
- Hebrew
- Notes
- Crowd of people in street holding up signs in Russian and Hebrew.
- Accession No.
- 2011X.27.9
- Name Access
- Lang, Morton
- Places
- Satanov, Russia, Europe
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
Images
Talmud reading
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn59301
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- Postcard : Paper : Ink : b&w ; Ht: 3 1/2 in. x W: 5 3/8 in.
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- Postcard : Paper : Ink : b&w ; Ht: 3 1/2 in. x W: 5 3/8 in.
- Other Title Information
- Documentary Artifact
- Physical Condition
- Good
- Language
- Russian
- Notes
- Postcard reproduction of Alessandro Rizzoni "Reading Talmud", a group of Jewish men wearing hats and tallis sitting around table
- Accession No.
- 2011X.168.02
- Name Access
- Ivry, Liselotte
- Places
- Russia, Europe
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
Images
Yemenische Arbeiter in Bezalel
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn59532
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- textual record
- Physical Description
- Postcard : Paper : Printed : ink : Black, beige, grey ; Ht: 8,5 cm x W: 13,5 cm
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- textual record
- Physical Description
- Postcard : Paper : Printed : ink : Black, beige, grey ; Ht: 8,5 cm x W: 13,5 cm
- Other Title Information
- Documentary Artifact
- Physical Condition
- Good
- Language
- German
- Hebrew
- Russian
- French
- Notes
- B&w photograph postcard representing six Jewish male workers from Yemen. The men are wearing traditional outfits and hats. There is no handwriting on the back of the card. It is possible that the term Bezalel refers to the occupation of the men as metal engravers. Narrative: The name "Bezalel" means "in the shadow [protection] of God." Bezalel is described in the genealogical lists as the son of Uri (Exodus 31:1), the son of Hur, of the tribe of Judah (I Chronicles 2:18, 19, 20, 50). He was said to be highly gifted as a workman, showing great skill and originality in engraving precious metals and stones and in wood-carving. (source: Wikipedia)
- Accession No.
- 1990.62.271
- Name Access
- Briansky Prezament, Rita
- Places
- Russia, Europe
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
Images
Postcard
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn59533
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- textual record
- Physical Description
- Postcard : Paper : Printed : ink : Black, beige, grey ; Ht: 8,5 cm x W: 13,5 cm
- Date
- [ca. 1910-1920]
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- textual record
- Physical Description
- Postcard : Paper : Printed : ink : Black, beige, grey ; Ht: 8,5 cm x W: 13,5 cm
- Other Title Information
- Documentary Artifact
- Date
- [ca. 1910-1920]
- Physical Condition
- Good
- Language
- Russian
- German
- Italian
- Notes
- This is a postcard with the picture of Leonid Andreev. There is no handwriting on the back of the card. Leonid was a Russian fiction writer.
- Accession No.
- 1990.62.272
- Name Access
- Briansky Prezament, Rita
- Places
- Russia, Europe
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
Images
Letter
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn59574
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- textual record
- Physical Description
- Letter : Paper ; Ht: 11 1/2 in. x W: 8 in.
- Date
- March 1944
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- textual record
- Physical Description
- Letter : Paper ; Ht: 11 1/2 in. x W: 8 in.
- Other Title Information
- Documentary Artifact
- Date
- March 1944
- Physical Condition
- Poor
- Language
- German
- Notes
- This is a letter from Dorf Klara (34 years old, born in Czernowitz Romania, Sol Klara (husband) and Fauzia Klara (Cousin) to her niece (2 1/2 years old). In this letter Dorf Klara explains to her young niece what happened to her parents who died a couple of days after they gave their daughter into an orphanage and why they did it. Nice handwriting.
- Accession No.
- 2011X.230.01
- Name Access
- Menczer (Haritver), Julia
- Places
- Mogilev, Russia, Europe
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
Images
Handbill
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn60065
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- textual record
- Physical Description
- Handbill : paper : printed : ink : beige, black, red ; Ht: 9 3/4 in. x W: 6 in.
- Date
- [ca. 1941]
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- textual record
- Physical Description
- Handbill : paper : printed : ink : beige, black, red ; Ht: 9 3/4 in. x W: 6 in.
- Other Title Information
- Documentary Artifact
- Date
- [ca. 1941]
- Physical Condition
- Poor
- Language
- German
- Russian
- Notes
- Nazi army propaganda leaflet geared to Russians. The front features two drawings outlined in red of Soviet soldiers beating of Jews; the verso is black text with a Reichsadler on the right hand side. This document is a German leaflet issued by the local army propaganda unit with an appeal to kill the Jews and the Communists in order to join the German army. Includes issue #150 RA and a pass.
- Accession No.
- 2000.24.02
- Name Access
- Grabowski, Ludwig
- Places
- Russia, Europe
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
Images
Silver cutlery
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn60385
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- object
- Physical Description
- Spoon : cast (moulded), cut : silver ; Ht: 2 cm x W: 4 cm x De: 19,1 cm
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- object
- Physical Description
- Spoon : cast (moulded), cut : silver ; Ht: 2 cm x W: 4 cm x De: 19,1 cm
- Other Title Information
- Food Service T&E
- Physical Condition
- Good
- Notes
- Deep bowl with high relief embellishments on the underside. Bowl extends from a handle with a raised rounded surface with a decorative filligreed pattern in the centre. The edges (both sides) have decortative cut designs. Narrative: The donor's, Dr. Pfeiffer, great granduncle was an ordained rabbi in the mid nineteenth century. He was ostracized when he abandoned orthodoxy for Reform Judaism. He left Germany and went to Krakow where he had a synagogue. He went to war, at the end of the nineteenth century, obviously for Russia, as the Tsar employed him in Odessa to modernize the Jewish community in terms of welfare. In recognition of his extra ordinary work for the Jewish community and Odessa at large, the Tsar gave him a set of silver flatware. Since he had no children of his own, he gave the set to his nephew as a wedding gift. It was passed down to Dr. Pfeiffer's parents. When they left Germany for Holland in 1939 the Pfeiffers took the silver with them. Mrs. Pfeiffer and her sister-in-law buried it and other silverware on a farm. She also buried the top hat Mr. Pfeiffer had worn to his wedding. After the war they retrieved the artifacts, but the non silver parts had corroded. The set is now divided among the family.
- Accession No.
- 1990.88.16
- Name Access
- Pfeiffer, Flora
- Places
- Odessa, Russia, Europe
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
Images
Zimmerman, Michael - Oral History of a Holocaust Survivor
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn67768
- Collection
- WITNESS TO HISTORY COLLECTION (MHMC-02)
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- moving images
- Physical Description
- 04:08:09
- Collection
- WITNESS TO HISTORY COLLECTION (MHMC-02)
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- moving images
- Physical Description
- 04:08:09
- Language
- English
- Notes
- Michael (Moses) Zimmerman was born on October 2, 1907 in Warsaw, Poland (Russia), to modern orthodox Jewish parents. The family was wealthy and had a live-in governess who was Jewish. From 1915 to 1918 the family lived in Moscow. Moses remembers the Kerensky revolution in March 1917 as peaceful. The Bolshevik revolution in October, however, was bloody -- the family was terrified and hid in the basement of their house in the city's centre. Moses describes the regime of terror -- his father's property was confiscated, his customers were murdered, bread rations were only available for the children. The Zimmerman’s returned to Poland in 1918 -- Russian soldiers smuggled them across the border. Moses had been schooled by a private tutor for eight years; he had no contact with Polish children. He attended gymnasium and then Polish university. Moses wanted to be an engineer and was accepted to a polytechnic college, graduating in 1933. He began working at a German firm in 1934. In August 1939 all men over the age of 21 had to go to the army for two years. They rejected Moses -- no officer would be called Moses. On September 6-7, 1939, at night, Moses left Warsaw with 200,000 other men. They were sure that the Allies would destroy Germany quickly. On September 17, Moses arrived in Lvov to meet his girlfriend, Elizabeth. Moses and his sister were taken to Russia by cattle car. He lived in barracks and worked cutting trees. Moses escaped with another couple to Kazan. The men were captured at the train station and interrogated by the KGB. In November 1940, Moses was sent to a Gulag for three years for attempting to escape from the camp. He worked in the forests in the middle of winter, marching 6 km to work without proper clothing or adequate meals. In June 1941 Moses was transferred to an electrical plant on the Arctic Ocean, near Finland, to work as an engineer. When the war was declared Moses moved to the Urals above the Arctic Circle. The Polish government-in-exile, in London, charged the Russians with organizing a Polish army to fight alongside Russia. Moses went to Poland and was examined -- Jews were rejected because they were "too weak" to fight. American Jewish organizations were told of this unofficial policy and they protested until a second army commission was appointed. Moses lied about having to support a family and was exempted from military service. The Soviets were being evacuated from Moscow and Leningrad -- Moses took the train with them to an area near Iran. They arrived in central Asia and Moses worked in the cotton fields. He travelled to a Polish help organization; later returning as their representative, he opened a school for peasant children and orphans. The Russians soon replaced the Poles and Moses was without work. In 1944 he was forced to take Russian citizenship; however, he managed to retain his Polish Jewish identity. After liberation on May 8, 1945, Moses married a Polish woman. They returned to Poland by train, arriving in Shamash to intense hostility on the part of the Polish population. A few weeks later the Kielce pogrom was perpetrated upon the Jewish population and the Zimmermans traveled to Breslau. Moses' parents and two sisters had been deported from the Warsaw ghetto and murdered in Treblinka in 1943. In late October 1946 Moses and his wife paid off border guards to escape out of Poland through Czechoslovakia -- Moses was thrilled to leave Poland as he hated it vehemently. They stayed in a DP camp in Salzburg, Austria. Moses approached JIAS and created a vocational school in an old brewery. The Zimmermans had a baby in 1948. The following year they applied to immigrate to Canada, arriving on June 24, 1950. Moses changed his name to Michael upon arrival to Canada. He applied for a job out of the newspaper and began working for Canadian Industrial Ltd. From 1953 to 1972 Michael worked for the CNR as an engineer and as a translator of Soviet research. He accepted a contract in 1971 and has been consulting for nine years with the USSR for the Canadian government and several private corporations. Michael discusses several his trips to the Soviet Union -- this work, and the red carpet treatment he receives from the Soviets, gives him deep satisfaction. Michael's son publishes technical manuals for a living.
- Accession No.
- WTH-243
- Name Access
- Zimmerman, Michael
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
Images
YouTube
Zimmerman, Michael - Oral History of a Holocaust Survivor
https://www.youtube.com/embed/AmvpEcay9pc
Perkal, Stephen - Oral History of a Holocaust Survivor
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn67774
- Collection
- WITNESS TO HISTORY COLLECTION (MHMC-02)
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- moving images
- Physical Description
- 11:13:00
- Collection
- WITNESS TO HISTORY COLLECTION (MHMC-02)
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- moving images
- Physical Description
- 11:13:00
- Language
- English
- Notes
- Stephen Perkal was born on December 14, 1914 in Zelechow, Poland (Russia). As a young man, he became a member of the Bund. In the spring of 1939, he was asked to conduct a campaign for the party in Mi?dzyrzec, Poland. When the war broke out, Stephen fled the city and went to Vilnius, a Polish town at the time. Upon the Lithuanian take over in fall 1939, Stephen had to move again. He stayed near Kaunas, Lithuania, until the end of 1940. He eventually got a visa from Chiune Sugihara to enter Japan. He took the train from Moscow to Vladivostok then embarked on a ship to Kobe. After Germany attacked Russia, Stephen was forced to leave Japan. He went to Shanghai and stayed there from 1941 to 1947. He went to University and worked in a textile factory. At the beginning of 1947, he received permission to immigrate to Canada. He became a student at McGill University. Later, he worked for international unions and became an active member of the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation. Stephen married a Christian Montrealer, has two daughters and several grandchildren.
- Accession No.
- WTH-393
- Name Access
- Perkal, Stephen
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
Images
YouTube
Perkal, Stephen - Oral History of a Holocaust Survivor
https://www.youtube.com/embed/qY9oWk7uKkw
Tefillin bag
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn76273
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- object
- Physical Description
- Tefillin bag : Sewn, embroidered : Purple, blue, orange, pink, green, beige ; Ht: 10,5 in. x W: 8,5 in.
- Date
- 1888
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- object
- Physical Description
- Tefillin bag : Sewn, embroidered : Purple, blue, orange, pink, green, beige ; Ht: 10,5 in. x W: 8,5 in.
- Other Title Information
- Ceremonial Artifact
- Date
- 1888
- Physical Condition
- Good
- Language
- Hebrew
- Notes
- Rectangular bag in purple fabric with beige fringed opening at top and orange cord strap with tassel at end. Embroidered with geometric design around large diamond shape, bordered in green, with Hebrew inscription embroidered in orange, green and pink. Decorative motifs at left, right, and bottom of inscription. Narrative: Tefillin, also known as phylacteries, are either of two boxes containing biblical verses and black leather straps that are used in rabhnic Jewish prayer. They are an essential part of morning prayer services, and worn on a daily basis (except the Sabbath and festivals) by many Jews, excluding women. Tefillin consist of two leather boxes (batim), one worn on the arm and the other worn on the head. They are made of the skins of kosher animals. Each box contains these biblical passages: Exodus 13:1-10, 11-16; Deuteronomy 6:4-9, 11:13-21, handwritten by a specially trained scribe with black ink.
- Accession No.
- 2005.38.09
- Name Access
- MHMC
- Places
- Russia, Europe
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
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