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Badge
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn47860
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- object
- Physical Description
- Badge : cast (moulded), cut, laminated : grey, black, white, silver
- Date
- 1988
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- object
- Physical Description
- Badge : cast (moulded), cut, laminated : grey, black, white, silver
- Other Title Information
- Personal Symbol
- Date
- 1988
- Physical Condition
- Good
- Language
- English
- Notes
- Octagonal shape with black text, surrounded by a double-lined black circle, with a grey background on the obverse. The reverse is white, with a safety pin attached at the top centre. Narrative: Badge in honor of 45 th anniversary of the uprising in warsaw’s ghetto.
- Accession No.
- 2003.02.05
- Name Access
- MHMC
- Places
- Warsaw, Poland, Europe
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
Images
Bus / tram ticket
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn76145
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- object
- Physical Description
- Bus / tram ticket : Printed, Handwritten, Molded : Beige, Black, White, Silver, Red ; Ht: 10 cm x W: 5,5 cm
- Date
- October 1938
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- object
- Physical Description
- Bus / tram ticket : Printed, Handwritten, Molded : Beige, Black, White, Silver, Red ; Ht: 10 cm x W: 5,5 cm
- Other Title Information
- Exchange Medium
- Date
- October 1938
- Physical Condition
- Good
- Language
- Polish
- Notes
- 1 page, double-sided, within a metal frame. Frame extends around edges on verso, on recto it cuts across top edge, leaving 1.5 cm of paper above metal. Two holes punched in horizontal orientation in section above frame. Within frame, square b&w photo of passholder affixed to bottom half of recto by two metal grommets. Numbered 51276 at top of recto, with name of passholder handwritten underneath. Signature of director underneath. On verso, printed text in Polish indicating that document is a monthly tramway and bus pass, valid for October 1938. Number 51276 handwritten. Number 4325 printed on left side. Object is a monthly tramway and bus pass for Warsaw, Poland, issued to Chaim Reisberg. Narrative: The transit pass was found hidden in the wooden beams of the roof of a Jewish home in Poland. An uncle of the donor, Elizabeth Cicigoi, purchased the house after the war and discovered it. It had been hidden with a photograph, a letter, and two Jewish prayer books. Elizabeth's mother was Jewish; she was murdered during the Holocaust.
- Accession No.
- 1995.32.01
- Name Access
- Cicigoi, Elizabeth
- Places
- Warsaw, Poland, Europe
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
Images
Candlestick
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn51357
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- object
- Physical Description
- Candlestick : silver ; Ht: 12 5/8 in. x W: 4 3/4 in.
- Date
- [ca. 1880-1920]
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- object
- Physical Description
- Candlestick : silver ; Ht: 12 5/8 in. x W: 4 3/4 in.
- Other Title Information
- Ceremonial Artifact
- Date
- [ca. 1880-1920]
- Physical Condition
- Good
- Notes
- Silver plate, circular base, stem has “umbrella” and bulbous sections, top candleholder section shaped like flower, flower and leaf designs on surface.
- Accession No.
- 2005.13.1
- Name Access
- Shuster, Marcia
- Places
- Warsaw, Poland, Europe
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
Images
Doll
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn50189
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- object
- Physical Description
- Doll : Ht: 13 in. x W: 7 in.
- Date
- 1940-1943
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- object
- Physical Description
- Doll : Ht: 13 in. x W: 7 in.
- Other Title Information
- Toy
- Date
- 1940-1943
- Physical Condition
- Good
- Notes
- Baby doll with articulated limbs attached to the body by elastic thread. Details for hair are carved on the head. Eyes are painted in blue and white, mouth is painted pink. Nose is missing a piece. Red paint or nail polish on the nails and lips. Narrative: Thea Borczuk (now Slawner) is the daughter of Leon Borczuk (b. 1906-02-22) and Anna Blimbaum Borczuk (b. 1910-11-16). Thea was born on May 7, 1939 in Warsaw, Poland. Leon worked as a foreman in a shoe factory in Gdansk, and Anna was employed as a bookkeeper. Thea entered the Warsaw ghetto as an infant. This doll was her only toy and most precious possession while living in the ghetto. The doll had been found by Thea’s father in an abandonned apartment in their building. The Borczuk family remained in the ghetto until the ghetto's liquidation in 1943. A few days before the ghetto uprising, Anna left with her labor detail but did not return in the evening. The following day, another woman brought Thea with her to work. After leaving the ghetto, Thea found her mother, who had assumed a new Christian identity. Thea spent the rest of the war with her mother in Lublin under the false names of Antonia and Teresa Kwasniewska. Leon, who had remained in the ghetto, was sent on a deportation train to Treblinka. He managed, however, to jump from the train. He survived the war hidden in the woods and later in an underground bunker. Leon and Anna were able to maintain intermittent contact by writing to one other at a prearranged address. Thea was liberated in Lublin at the age of five and a half. She and Anna returned to Warsaw following Liberation and reunited with Leon. Thea could only recognize her father by his moustache. Thea started school in Warsaw before leaving with her parents for France. In 1950, the family sailed from Le Havre, France to Canada and settled in Montreal. Though Thea and her parents survived, her grandparents, Abram Blimbaum and Brandla Fajerstejn Blimbaum were both killed in Treblinka. In Montreal, Thea’s own children played with the doll and painted its nails and lips with red nail polish.
- Accession No.
- 2011X.81.01
- Name Access
- Borczuk Slawner, Thea
- Places
- Warsaw, Poland, Europe
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
Images
Jacket
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn47795
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- object
- Physical Description
- Jacket : woven, sewn, machine, hand, leather work, embroidery, metal work : grey-brown, brown, beige, black, orange, silver
- Date
- 1939-1939
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- object
- Physical Description
- Jacket : woven, sewn, machine, hand, leather work, embroidery, metal work : grey-brown, brown, beige, black, orange, silver
- Other Title Information
- Clothing, Outerwear
- Date
- 1939-1939
- Physical Condition
- Good
- Notes
- Grey-brown leather, sheepskin?, single-breasted with 7 metal hooks at the opening, to keep the 2 sides together. On each side is an inner pocket, at the waist. There is white, wool trim on the collar, down the front (on both sides of the opening), along the pockets, bottom edge and sleeves. Next to the trim is a red leather trim, with braided detailing and embroidered detailing bordering the leather. The back is grey-brown, with brown leather braiding going vertically on both sides, outlining the waist. More leather detailing is found on the shoulders and collar, with 5 embroidered filigree lines going down at the upper middle back. The jacket is lined with black wool and the pockets are lined with orange corduroy. Narrative: Blanca Pinsker was living in Bialystok when the Russian army invaded this part of Poland in 1939. The Russians confiscated the family store. Away on business in Warsaw, Blanca bought this sheepskin jacket and was wearing it when she confronted the Russian Kommissar, asking him to give her the family store back. Blanca was given back the keys, but the Kommissar asked her to become a informer. Blanca declined and the family decided to liquidate their business and left for Vilnius. In 1941, the Germans invaded the region and the Pinsker family was sent to the ghetto. Soon after, Blanca, her sister Ruth and nephew Alex secured false identity papers to be able to pass as Aryans and left the Vilnius ghetto for a place called Miadzol. In March 1943, a policeman came to their house and asked Blanca to follow him to the local German authorities. Blanca put on her sheepskin jacket and followed him. Later, along with three other people, she was taken away in a train. After a long ride, their guard let them out and went into a home to get a mug for them to drink out of. While he turned away from his prisoners, Blanca ran away. The guard shot after her, but missed. In a courtyard shed nearby she found inside an old-fashioned buffet in which she managed to hide. The German guard didn’t find her and she spent the night hiding in the buffet. The following day she walked through the fields in direction of Vilnius. She walked to a place called Wojstom where she found refuge in a priest’s home. He let her stay overnight, fed her and procured her with a birth certificate under the name Maryia Gorska. Following the priest’s directions, Blanca managed to get back to the Vilnius ghetto where she was reunited with her brother Marek. As Maryia Gorska, she applied for a job in a farm in Lithuania and worked there until the end of the war. All that time, Blanca never parted with her jacket, which brought her “warmth, shelter, and some solace”. She brought it with her when she immigrated to Canada in 1948.
- Accession No.
- 2011X.71.02
- Name Access
- Becker, Alex
- Places
- Warsaw, Poland, Europe
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
Images
Kerchief
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn47637
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- object
- Physical Description
- Kerchief : Paper : woven, sewn, machine, dyed : Ink : white, blue, black, yellow
- Date
- 1963
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- object
- Physical Description
- Kerchief : Paper : woven, sewn, machine, dyed : Ink : white, blue, black, yellow
- Other Title Information
- Documentary Artifact
- Date
- 1963
- Physical Condition
- Good
- Language
- Polish
- Russian
- Yiddish
- Notes
- Rectangular shaped with a shiney front and a mat back. Colour blocked lines with text along the inside border. In the centre is 2 b&w abstract images of people, along with more text. Narrative: Commemorating Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, 1963. 20th Anniversary.
- Accession No.
- 2011X.326.02
- Name Access
- Taca, Roza
- Places
- Warsaw , Poland, Europe
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
Images
Kiddush cup
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn76262
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- object
- Physical Description
- Kiddush cup : Hammered ; Ht: 4 1/2 in. x W: 2 7/8 in.
- Date
- May 28, 1939
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- object
- Physical Description
- Kiddush cup : Hammered ; Ht: 4 1/2 in. x W: 2 7/8 in.
- Other Title Information
- Ceremonial Artifact
- Date
- May 28, 1939
- Physical Condition
- Good
- Language
- Hebrew
- Notes
- Silver kiddish cup, bulbous stem and circular base. Decorative etching on outside of cup in zigzag patterns forming borders and ferns; inscribed with Hebrew words on each side. Narrative: This cup was given as a wedding gift to Yehuda Elberg by his grandfather. It was lost during the war and recovered by Elberg at an auction in New York. Elberg was born in Zgierz, Poland in 1912. He became a rabbi but focused on writing short stories and newspaper articles in Hebrew and Yiddish. During the war, he was involved in resistance activities in ?ód? and Warsaw, avoiding deportation. After the war, he lived in Paris and New York, eventually settling in Montreal. He died in his sleep in 2003.
- Accession No.
- 2005.25.01
- Name Access
- Elberg, Nathan
- Places
- Warsaw, Poland, Europe
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
Images
Ticket
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn50153
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- object
- Physical Description
- Ticket : Paper : Beige, Black ; Ht: 2 7/8 in. x W: 4 1/2 in.
- Date
- 1913
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- object
- Physical Description
- Ticket : Paper : Beige, Black ; Ht: 2 7/8 in. x W: 4 1/2 in.
- Other Title Information
- Exchange Medium
- Date
- 1913
- Physical Condition
- Excellent
- Language
- Polish
- Notes
- Entrance ticket for services on Rosh Hashana and Yom Kippur at the Synagogue located at Muranowska 34. New year 5674 - 1913.
- Accession No.
- 2011X.316.01
- Name Access
- Starker, Krisha
- Places
- Warsaw?, Poland, Europe
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
Images
Wallet
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn47606
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- object
- Physical Description
- Wallet : leather worked, sewn (machine), embossed, woven : brown, dark-brown, grey
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- object
- Physical Description
- Wallet : leather worked, sewn (machine), embossed, woven : brown, dark-brown, grey
- Other Title Information
- Personal Gear
- Physical Condition
- Excellent
- Notes
- Brown wallet with a darker brown embossed design on the obverse. In the centre of the design is a man standing on a pedestle, holding a sword in his left hand and a cross in the right hand. Above the man is an eagle, looking left; below the man is the outline of a mermaid, holding a sword in her left hand and a shield in her right hand. There is a surrounding border of a shield with lines, dots and scrolls. There is stitching along the edge of the wallet. Opens like a book. On the interior, on each side, are 3 rows of leather, forming pockets. The inside of the pockets are lined with a shiney grey material. There is an additional pocket that opens at the top edge of the wallet, when opened.
- Accession No.
- 1999.29.112
- Name Access
- Friedman, Esther
- Places
- Warsaw, Poland, Europe
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
Images
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