Letter
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn76206
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- textual record
- Physical Description
- Letter : Paper : Printed, Typed : Ink : Beige, Black, Blue ; Ht: 9 3/4 in. x W: 7 3/4 in.
- Date
- November 18, 1952
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- textual record
- Physical Description
- Letter : Paper : Printed, Typed : Ink : Beige, Black, Blue ; Ht: 9 3/4 in. x W: 7 3/4 in.
- Other Title Information
- Documentary Artifact
- Date
- November 18, 1952
- Physical Condition
- Good
- Language
- German
- Notes
- 1 page, single-sided. Folded twice horizontally and once vertically. Printed on tterhead of the Canadian Government Immigration Mission. Document is a letter from the Mission Chief to Salomon Heiss in Israel. Letter states that the Heiss family must contact the mission to arrange medical examinations in preparation for their immigration Canada. If there is no response in the next 3 weeks, Mr. Karansky warns that the application will be cancelled. Narrative: Salomon and Sara Heiss were the parents of the donor, Erika Bloom. The Heiss family fled Nazi-occupied Vienna in 1938, after Salomon was arrested and detained in Dachau for 3 days. They survived the war in Shanghai, immigrated to Israel in 1949, and eventually settled in Montreal.
- Accession No.
- 2002.28.04
- Name Access
- Bloom, Erika
- Places
- Linz, Austria, Europe
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
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