Portrait of two women
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn76519
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- textual record
- Physical Description
- Photograph : Cardstock : Printed, Handwritten : Ink : B&W ; Ht: 8,5 cm x W: 13,5 cm
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- textual record
- Physical Description
- Photograph : Cardstock : Printed, Handwritten : Ink : B&W ; Ht: 8,5 cm x W: 13,5 cm
- Other Title Information
- Documentary Artifact
- Physical Condition
- Excellent
- Language
- Yiddish
- Notes
- 1 page, double-sided. On recto is a b&w indoor portrait of two women sitting on a wooden bench. Brocade carpet. Woman on left is younger, wears a dark pleated skirt and long-sleeved shirt with white lace decorative collar. Woman on right is older, with short dark hair and horn-rimmed glasses. On verso, handwritten Yiddish text. Document is a postcard. Narrative: The donors parents were Meilach Magid and Yocheved Bejlach, both teachers. They came to Canada in 1921, returned to Poland, and then settled in Canada in 1924. Meilach graduated from McGill in 1929. He was the principal of United Talmud Torah School and later founded Herzliah High School in 1946.
- Accession No.
- 2014.19.18
- Name Access
- Clamen, Miriam
- Places
- Poland, Europe
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
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