Envelope
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- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- textual record
- Physical Description
- Envelope : Paper : Handwritten : Ink : Blue, Red ; Ht: 9 cm x W: 16 cm
- Date
- February 06, 1946
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- textual record
- Physical Description
- Envelope : Paper : Handwritten : Ink : Blue, Red ; Ht: 9 cm x W: 16 cm
- Other Title Information
- Documentary Artifact
- Date
- February 06, 1946
- Physical Condition
- Poor
- Language
- English
- French
- Spanish
- Notes
- Air mail envelope with two air mail stamps -one of which has been partly removed. Red and blue border follows bottom and right edges. Two United States Air Mail stamps to the value of 6 cents each. Air mail decal decorates the TL corner with the inscription 'Via Air Mail - Par Avion - Correo Aereo.' There is a yellow liquid stain on TL corner. Envelope is opened, interior decorated with blue crosshatches. Reverse reads 'After Five Days Return To:' Ink addresses are illegible. May be addressed to Lavy Becker in Montreal, Quebec. Return post to N.Y. Narrative: Born in 1905, Becker was a rabbi and a businessman. He was a National Vice-President of Canadian Jewish Congress, an executive chairman of Federation of Jewish Community Services. He was on the Board of Governors Canadian Welfare Council, Board of Directors America-Israel Cultural Foundation, and Board of Governors of the Combined Jewish Appeal. He was a National Vice-President Zionist Organization of Canada; Director of the Joint Distribution Committee in U.S.A. Zone, Germany. He is a former Executive Director Young Men's Hebrew Association. He was a representative of the Jewish Welfare Board in Caribbean countries, a founder of the Beth-El Congregation in the Town of Mount Royal, and he was the founder and first rabbi of Reconstructionist Synagogue, Hampstead. He died in Montreal in 2001.
- Accession No.
- 2011X.72.28
- Name Access
- Becker, Hillel
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
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