OSE Summer Camp
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- Collection
- MONTREAL HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL CENTRE (MHMC-01)
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Format
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- Photograph : Paper ; Ht: 4 1/2 in. x W: 6 5/8 in.
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
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- Collection
- MONTREAL HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL CENTRE (MHMC-01)
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Format
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- Photograph : Paper ; Ht: 4 1/2 in. x W: 6 5/8 in.
- Other Title Information
- Documentary Artifact
- Date
- [ca. 1928]
- Physical Condition
- Excellent
- Language
- English
- Notes
- b&w, outdoors, group of children are posing next to trees in what appears to be an orchard. Two young women, their camp couselors, are standing with them on the right hand side. Children were taking part in an OSE Summer camp. Narrative: The “Œuvre de secours aux enfants” (OSE) is a Jewish organization designed to help children. OSE was established in 1912 in St. Petersburg (Russia) by doctors to help disadvantaged Jewish populations. It was then called the “Society for the health protection of the Jewish population”, in Russian Obshchetsvo Zdravookhraneniya Yevreyiev, abbreviated OZE. It rescued thousands of Jewish children during the Second World War.
- Accession No.
- 2011X.310.046
- Name Access
- Sourkes, Shana
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Montreal Holocaust Memorial Centre
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