Identification tag
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn80163
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- object
- Physical Description
- Identification tag : woven, painted : beige, black, red
- Date
- July 1, 1944
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- object
- Physical Description
- Identification tag : woven, painted : beige, black, red
- Other Title Information
- Personal Symbol
- Date
- July 1, 1944
- Physical Condition
- stained
- Notes
- Rectangular piece with the raw edges folded over on each side. On the leftside is an upside-down red triangle, with a horizontal brown bar over top. Narrative: George (Jiri) Ehrman was born in Strakonice (Czech Republic) on March 8, 1920. He was deported from Prague to Theresienstadt ghetto-camp (Czech Republic) in June 1942. In December 1943 he was sent from the Theresienstadt ghetto-camp to Auschwitz concentration camp (Poland) where his prisoner number was #170128. In July 1944, George Ehrman was sent to concentration camp Schwarzheide, a subcamp of Sachsenhausen, where he received this identification prisoner number.George recalls that he was made to build bunkers and repair damages after Allied air raids. From April 4, 1945 to May 5, 1945 George was part of a death march from Schwarzheide camp toward Theresienstadt ghetto-camp. He was with his brother Charles (Karel) during the march. Mr Ehrman believes that from their hometown, only him and his brother Charles (Karel) survived the Holocaust. George Ehrman immigrated to Canada and settled in Montreal.
- Accession No.
- 2011X.57.04
- Name Access
- Ehrman, George
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
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