Passport
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn78290
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- textual record
- Physical Description
- Passport : Paper : printed, handwritten : Ink : beige, black, purple, blue, red ; Ht: 29,2 cm x W: 19,8 cm
- Date
- August 28, 1940
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- textual record
- Physical Description
- Passport : Paper : printed, handwritten : Ink : beige, black, purple, blue, red ; Ht: 29,2 cm x W: 19,8 cm
- Other Title Information
- Documentary Artifact
- Date
- August 28, 1940
- Physical Condition
- Poor
- Language
- Polish
- French
- Portuguese
- Notes
- 1 page. Two-sided passport document issued by Poland. On the recto, b.l., are two B&W identity pictures. On the left is Jacob Baron (b. 1902-03-2) and on the right is his wife, Rajzla Baron nee Klarman (b. 1903-06-01). On the verso are multiple stamps and, on the b.r., the indication that the couple was admitted at Philadephia on 1944-04-09. Narrative: The donor and his family fled from Nancy (France) to Toulouse (France) in 1940, where they were assigned forced residence status on 1941-02-02. The Vichy Statute of 1940-10-04 stated that foreign Jews could at any time be assigned a forced residence by the prefect of the department in which they resided. This forced residence was in Bagnères-de-Luchon, on the Spanish border. On 1942-12-17 the Barons crossed the Pyrenees mountains on foot, entered Spain and lived in Barcelona (Spain) for one year. They obtained visas to enter Canada via Portugal and travelled to Philadelphia on the Serpa Pinto, which left Lisbon on 1944-03-23 and docked in Philadelphia on 1944-04-06. They arrived in Montreal by train on 1944-04-08. The Serpa Pinto was a Portuguese transport ship, which sailed under the command of Captain Americo Dos Santos. With a capacity of 600 people, the ship made regular trips from Lisbon, Portugal to Rio de Janeiro, New York City, Philadelphia and Baltimore. It has been said that the ship transported about 7,800 refugees during the Second World War, among them hundreds of Jews.
- Accession No.
- 2002.13.05
- Name Access
- Baron, Maurice
- Places
- Toulouse, France, Europe
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
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