Runa Mauer and friends at dinner
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn45789
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- Photograph : Paper ; Ht: 12,1 cm x W: 9,5 cm
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- Photograph : Paper ; Ht: 12,1 cm x W: 9,5 cm
- Other Title Information
- Documentary Artifact
- Physical Condition
- Good
- Notes
- b&w photograph that is outlined with a thin white border. Photograph shows a group of 11 people gathered around a long, rectangular table. There are 2 older men (one wearing a hat), 2 boys and 7 women. The table is set with a white table cloth. There are white plates set on the table, and on top of each plate is a glass. Out of the 11 visible glasses, 6 are made of glass and 6 are made of sliver?, the glass glasses are filled with a dark liquid (wine?), and there is a bottle on the right side of the table that has a little bit of this liquid left. Next to the bottle, there is a rectangular paper pamphlet, whose theme is not visible in the picture. Towards the head of the table (near the man in the hat) there is a small stack of dishes that is covered by what looks like a lace dolly. Narrative: Runa Maltin was born on July 6th, 1910 in Skalat, Tarnopol (Ukraine). Runa lived in Tarnopol until 1939 where she worked as a dressmaker. From 1939 to 1941, she worked as a farmer labourer. From November 1941 to January 1942 she was placed in the Ghetto in Tarnopol. She was arrested in September 1942 and sent to a concentration camp. Between 1942 and 1943 she was interned in concentration camps in Tarnopol, Beresovica and Jageljnica (Poland). On the 22nd of July, 1943, Runa fled from the concentration camp and until March of 1944 she lived in a forest. In March 1944, she was liberated by the Russian Red Army and returned to Tarnopol, where she continued working as a dressmaker. Runa was the only one out of her immediate family to survive the Holocaust. she immigrated to Canada with the help of an aunt and uncle in 1948.
- Accession No.
- 2010.09.03
- Name Access
- Maltin (Zarkower), Erika
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
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