Men building a road
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn75226
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- Photograph : Paper : b&w ; Ht: 3 3/8 in. x W: 5 1/4 in.
- Date
- 1930
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- Photograph : Paper : b&w ; Ht: 3 3/8 in. x W: 5 1/4 in.
- Other Title Information
- Documentary Artifact
- Date
- 1930
- Physical Condition
- Good
- Notes
- b&w, group of men standing on a road being built. Avrum Katz, a civil engineer can be seen 4th from the left. The road is located between the city of Kowel and Vledema. Narrative: Awrum Katz was the donor's father. Born in 1892, Awrum Katz was married to Rebecca Pfeffer. He worked as a civil engineer. They moved to England in 1939, with their children Rose and Moshe. From England they travelled to New York to attend the World Fair. They were denied citizenship in the USA and later settled in Montreal. Avrum worked as a peddler and attended university at night to become a civil engineer. He died in 1942.
- Accession No.
- 1999.25.03
- Name Access
- Melnick, Rose
- Places
- Kowel, Poland, Europe
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
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