American Joint Distribution Committee activities: A welfare worker and client
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn59627
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- Drawing : paper : Print ; Ht: 30 cm x W: 20,5 cm
- Date
- 1947
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- Drawing : paper : Print ; Ht: 30 cm x W: 20,5 cm
- Other Title Information
- Original Art, Work on Paper
- Date
- 1947
- Creator
- Markowitz-Benjamin, Sylvia
- Physical Condition
- Good
- Language
- German
- Notes
- A print of a drawing by Sylvia Malkowitz depicts a Joint Distribution worker sitting at a desk next to a client in felt hat. A map to Hamburg is on the wall, next to two pictures of Men taking down a fence. Signed 'HE 47' in the bottom center. Narrative: Sylvia Benjamin (then Markowitz) started working as overseas staff for the American Joint Distribution Committee in Dec 1945. Her first assignment was at the Bergen-Belsen Displaced Persons camp near Hamburg. She was charged with interviewing for and distributing visas to Sweden, helping Jews locate surviving family, and for arranging medical care. After 6 months she was transferred to Hamburg where she helped re-establish a Jewish community. Her focus was on rebuilding a sense of community and spirit above mere survival requirements.
- Accession No.
- 2011X.75.09
- Name Access
- Benjamin, Sylvia
- Places
- Germany, Europe
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
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