Manuscript
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn59629
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- textual record
- Physical Description
- Manuscript : Paper : Typewritten : Ink : Black, white, red, blue ; Ht: 28 cm x W: 21 cm
- Date
- 1948-1949
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- textual record
- Physical Description
- Manuscript : Paper : Typewritten : Ink : Black, white, red, blue ; Ht: 28 cm x W: 21 cm
- Other Title Information
- Documentary Artifact
- Date
- 1948-1949
- Physical Condition
- Good
- Language
- English
- Notes
- 7 printed pages, copies of an original testimony by Sylvia Markowitz. Page 1 is entitled 'Additional Information in Reference to the Overseas Assignment With the American Joint Distribution Committee.' Chapters include 'The Jewish Gemeinde Hamburg,' 'Warburg Children's Home, Hamburg,' and the 'Hamburg office.' In her account, Sylvia describes her work in the AJDC and some of its other offices in Germany. It focuses on redeveloping the Jewish community in Europe and resourcing Holocaust survivors. In closing she mentions that she feels this was a worthwhile experience for her and that she would like to continue. 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 in the Jewish Gemeinde. Her focus was on rebuilding a sense of community and spirit above mere survival requirements.
- Accession No.
- 2011X.75.12
- Name Access
- Benjamin, Sylvia
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
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