Letter
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn78397
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- textual record
- Physical Description
- Letter : Paper : printed, typed, stamped : Ink : beige, black, red ; Ht: 29,2 cm x W: 20,7 cm
- Date
- July 20, 1947
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- textual record
- Physical Description
- Letter : Paper : printed, typed, stamped : Ink : beige, black, red ; Ht: 29,2 cm x W: 20,7 cm
- Other Title Information
- Documentary Artifact
- Date
- July 20, 1947
- Physical Condition
- Poor
- Language
- German
- Notes
- 1 page. One-sided document on official letterhead. The body of the text was typed in black ink. On the c.l. are two punctured holes. The letter is a recommendation letter to Max Mondschein from the board of the Jewish Community for the town and country of Lüneburg, Germany. Narrative: Max Mondschein was born in Husiatyn (Austro-Hungarian Empire, later Poland, today Ukraine) on 1908-03-16. He moved to Vienna (Austria) early in life. On 1939-09-11, Max Mondschein was deported to the Buchenwald concentration camp as a political prisoner. He was transferred to Auschwitz on 1942-10 where he received the Prisoner Number: 68 585. He was transported to Buna to serve as forced laborer for the I.G. Farben chemical industry from 1942-12 to 1944-12. From 1944-12 to 1945-04, he was confined in a camp near the town for Ellrich, Germany. He was used as forced laborer in the Sachsenhausen-Oranienburg concentration camp in 1945-04 and was liberated on 1945-05-02. After the war, he lived in a Displaced Persons Camp in Germany where he met his wife Renia Maszenberg. He came to Canada in October 1947 and settled in Montreal.
- Accession No.
- 2014.23.15
- Name Access
- Janulaitis, Cynthia M.
- Places
- Luneburg, Germany, Europe
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
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