topic:"Trepman, Paul" found 2 records - The Canadian Jewish Heritage Network

Scope and Content: Consists of mainly textual records of association activities such as membership lists, anniversary gatherings, etc. Includes correspondence and scrapbooks.

Collection: Bergen-Belsen Survivors Association of Montreal

Description Level: Fonds

Material Type: multiple media

Physical Description: 0.3m. multiple media

Scope and Content: Consists of mainly textual records of association activities such as membership lists, anniversary gatherings, etc. Includes correspondence and scrapbooks.

Fonds No.: 1006

Storage Location: 1-2B

History / Biographical: At the initiative of Joseph Rosensaft a meeting was held in New York in December 1961 of Bergen-Belsen survivors. It was decided at that time that a World Federation of Bergen-Belsen survivors would be formed with associations in all cities where there were numbers of survivors present. As a result in early 1962 an association was formed in Montreal with Paul Trepman as president. The aims were the following: A. Making sure that neither the world nor the Jews ever forgot the Holocaust; B. Wage a continuous fight against Neo-Nazi groups and organizations; C. Offer brotherly aid to former Bergen-Belsen inmates who are in need; D. Keep alive the heroic and rich Bergen-Belsen tradition. The association met a number of times a year, although the main focus was the Liberation Rally, which took place on or around April 15th, the date of the Bergen-Belsen camp was liberated by the armed forces. Some of the other activities of the association were the erection of a monument in a local Jewish cemetery and a trip back to Belsen on the 25th anniversary of the liberation.

Language: English; Yiddish; French

Custodial History: Transferred by Paul Trepman, former director of the Jewish Public Library and a leader in the Bergen-Belsen Survivors Association.

Reproduction Restrictions: May contain materials restricted due to Copyright.

Subjects: Bergen Belsen (Germany: Concentration camp); Bergen-Belsen Survivors Association; Displaced persons; Trepman, Paul.

Archival / Genealogical: Archival Descriptions

Repository: Jewish Public Library Archives

Paul Trepman Fonds

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Collection: Paul Trepman Fonds

Description Level: Fonds

Material Type: textual record

Physical Description: 0.7 m textual records

Fonds No.: 1069

Date: 1940-2002

Scope and Content: Fonds consists of manuscripts and notes from Paul Trepman's articles, books, and lectures as well as personal biographical documents, correspondence, photographs, and ephemera.

Collection: Paul Trepman Fonds

Description Level: Fonds

Material Type: textual record

Physical Description: 0.7 m textual records

Scope and Content: Fonds consists of manuscripts and notes from Paul Trepman's articles, books, and lectures as well as personal biographical documents, correspondence, photographs, and ephemera.

Date: 1940-2002

Fonds No.: 1069

Storage Location: Bay 1

History / Biographical: Paul Trepman (1916-1987) was born in Warsaw, Poland and received both a traditional and modern education. Starting in his youth he was a strong Zionist supporter and also began to publish. He began studies at the Stefan Batory University in Vilna but his studies were interupted by the spread of war. Trepman survived the war using false Aryan identity papers. In 1943 he was arrested and accused of being a Soviet Spy. Trepman spent the remainder of the war in various camps before being liberated from Bergen-Belsen in 1945. Trepman was highly involved in the political and cultural spheres of life in the Bergen-Belsen displaced persons camp. He was the founding coeditor of the Unzer Shtime newspaper and helped to edit two other books - "Anthology of Songs and Poems from the Ghettos and Concentration Camps" by Zamy Feder and "Unzer Churbn in Bild", an album of the Holocaust coedited by Rafael Olewsky and David Rosenthal. Trepman met his wife Bebe, who was involved with the Yiddish theatre in the camp, through a journalist friend and they were married shortly after. In 1948, with the help of Hirsch Wolofsky, editor of the Keneder Adler, Babey and Paul Trepman immigrated to Montreal. Trepman taught at the Jewish People's School for 23 years, was involved with Camp Unzer and Camp Kindervelt, and was Executive Director of the Jewish Public Library between 1971 and 1981. He also helped to established the Montreal chapter of the Bergen-Belsen Survivors' Association, founded in 1961. He was a frequent lecturer and authored numerous articles and books including, "Among Men and Beasts" (1978), "A Traumatic Return to Poland" (1980), and "A Gesl in Varshe" (1949).

Language: English; Yiddish; Polish

Related Material: Bebe Trepman Fonds; Bergen Belsen Survivors' Association Fonds

Subjects: Trepman, Bebe; Trepman, Paul; Bergen Belsen (Germany: Concentration camp); Bergen-Belsen Survivors Association; Holocaust; Poland -- Jews.

Archival / Genealogical: Archival Descriptions

Repository: Jewish Public Library Archives