Men on a row boat, boys on the dock
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn76530
- 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
- Good
- Language
- Yiddish
- Notes
- 1 page, double-sided. On recto is a b&w outdoor photograph. Cabin in background with wooden support/railing which runs along edge of river. Trees on either side of cabin. Five young boys stand in front of cabin, leaning on railing. Five men in long row boat in the water in front of the cabin; three sit, one reclines, and the man on far right stands, wearing a light-coloured suit, holding a pole or oar which is partially immersed in the water. 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.
- 2014.19.29
- Name Access
- Clamen, Miriam
- Places
- Poland, Europe
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
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