?
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- textual record
- Physical Description
- ? : Paper : Printed : Ink : Beige, Black ; Ht: 29,5 cm x W: 21 cm
- Date
- May 13, 1947
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- textual record
- Physical Description
- ? : Paper : Printed : Ink : Beige, Black ; Ht: 29,5 cm x W: 21 cm
- Other Title Information
- Documentary Artifact
- Date
- May 13, 1947
- Physical Condition
- Good
- Language
- Yiddish
- Notes
- 1 page, single-sided. Folded once horizontally and once vertically. Triangular stamp with "Amchu" insignia of harp in centre, Yiddish text. Document relates to "Amchu" Artist's Group in Feldafing. Contains list of members. Mayer Abramowicz is first on the list. Narrative: Bella (Beila, Bela) Herling and Mayer (Majer, Meyer, Meir) Abramovitch (Abramovitz, Abramowicz, Abramowitz) were the parents of the donor, Toby Herscovitch. Bella was born in Suchedniów, Poland on September 25, 1925, the youngest of a family of ten children. Her parents and five siblings were murdered in the Holocaust. Bella and three of her sisters survived the war working as slave labourers in an ammunitions factory in Skarzysko-Kamienna. They were liberated by Russian troops on January 16, 1945, and made their way to the Feldafing Displaced Persons Camp, where they reunited with a brother who had survived Auschwitz. Bella volunteered for nursing training by a Jewish refugee agency, and worked as a nurse in the camp from 1946 to 1948. In 1948, she joined her sister Paula in Toronto, where she worked as a nurse's aide and married Mayer, a fellow survivor who she had known from Feldafing. Born November 10, 1914 in Vilna (Vilnius), he was the sole survivor of a family of six children. He lived in the Vilna ghetto and worked in a factory making window panes for German barracks; he was later sent to a labour camp in Tallin, Estonia, and then to Stutthof concentration camp. In the final days of the war, he escaped from a subsequent transfer to Dachau concentration camp and was liberated. He spent three months sick in a hospital and ended up in Feldafing, where he was active in the "Amchu" or "AMCHO" theater group, part of the Jewish Labour Committee. He lived for a year in France, and immigrated to Canada in May, 1949. Bella and Mayer moved to Montreal in 1950 and opened a fabric store. Mayer passed away in 2001, and Bella in 2014.
- Accession No.
- 2014.10.14
- Name Access
- Herscovitch, Toby
- Places
- Feldafing, Germany, Europe
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
Less detail
?
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- textual record
- Physical Description
- ? : Paper : Drawn, Typed, Stamped : Ink : Yellow, Black, Red ; Ht: 27,5 cm x W: 21,5 cm
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- textual record
- Physical Description
- ? : Paper : Drawn, Typed, Stamped : Ink : Yellow, Black, Red ; Ht: 27,5 cm x W: 21,5 cm
- Other Title Information
- Documentary Artifact
- Physical Condition
- Good
- Language
- Yiddish
- Notes
- 1 page, single-sided. Folded once vertically and 3 times horizontally. Large printed line drawing of a closed book, with a red stamp at top right corner of an opened book with Yiddish text superimposed over it. Text in Yiddish within the image of the book. Narrative: Bella (Beila, Bela) Herling and Mayer (Majer, Meyer, Meir) Abramovitch (Abramovitz, Abramowicz, Abramowitz) were the parents of the donor, Toby Herscovitch. Bella was born in Suchedniów, Poland on September 25, 1925, the youngest of a family of ten children. Her parents and five siblings were murdered in the Holocaust. Bella and three of her sisters survived the war working as slave labourers in an ammunitions factory in Skarzysko-Kamienna. They were liberated by Russian troops on January 16, 1945, and made their way to the Feldafing Displaced Persons Camp, where they reunited with a brother who had survived Auschwitz. Bella volunteered for nursing training by a Jewish refugee agency, and worked as a nurse in the camp from 1946 to 1948. In 1948, she joined her sister Paula in Toronto, where she worked as a nurse's aide and married Mayer, a fellow survivor who she had known from Feldafing. Born November 10, 1914 in Vilna (Vilnius), he was the sole survivor of a family of six children. He lived in the Vilna ghetto and worked in a factory making window panes for German barracks; he was later sent to a labour camp in Tallin, Estonia, and then to Stutthof concentration camp. In the final days of the war, he escaped from a subsequent transfer to Dachau concentration camp and was liberated. He spent three months sick in a hospital and ended up in Feldafing, where he was active in the "Amchu" or "AMCHO" theater group, part of the Jewish Labour Committee. He lived for a year in France, and immigrated to Canada in May, 1949. Bella and Mayer moved to Montreal in 1950 and opened a fabric store. Mayer passed away in 2001, and Bella in 2014.
- Accession No.
- 2014.10.26
- Name Access
- Herscovitch, Toby
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
Less detail
$1,000,000 purchasing program in Canada envisaged for the first 6 months of the year 1948 - Purchasing program; Overseas shipment; SOS campaign; Overseas staff; Accounting; JTA
- Collection
- Canadian Jewish Congress organizational records
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- textual record
- Fonds No.
- CJC0001; FA 2; CJC-IOI-FA2-345
- Date
- 03/04/1948
$1,000 bequest for Archives of Congress - Martin Wolff
- Collection
- Canadian Jewish Congress organizational records
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- textual record
- Fonds No.
- CJC0001; FA 2; CJC-IOI-FA2-574
- Date
- 02/15/1949
$1,000 received from Regina
- Collection
- Canadian Jewish Congress organizational records
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- textual record
- Fonds No.
- CJC0001; FA 2; CJC-IOI-FA2-317
- Date
- 01/26/1948
$1,000 received from Regina, Sask.
- Collection
- Canadian Jewish Congress organizational records
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- textual record
- Fonds No.
- CJC0001; FA 2; CJC-IOI-FA2-363
- Date
- 03/31/1948
$1,000 remittance from Sherbrooke
- Collection
- Canadian Jewish Congress organizational records
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- textual record
- Fonds No.
- CJC0001; FA 2; CJC-IOI-FA2-625
- Date
- 05/04/1949
$1,000 scholarship for orphan boy in Montreal - Mr. Harry Wolfe of Wolfe Stevedores Ltd.
- Collection
- Canadian Jewish Congress organizational records
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- textual record
- Fonds No.
- CJC0001; FA 2; CJC-IOI-FA2-723
- Date
- 09/26/1949
$ 1,000 transmission on behalf of World Jewish Congress
- Collection
- Canadian Jewish Congress organizational records
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- textual record
- Fonds No.
- CJC0001; FA 2; CJC-IOI-FA2-59
- Date
- 12/31/1946
1st Fundraiser, 1998-1999 and Opera Concert 1998
- Collection
- Saidye Bronfman Centre Fonds
- Description Level
- File
- Material Type
- textual record
- Physical Description
- 1 file of textual records
- Fonds No.
- 1061; 6.2; 01616
$1,160,000 for UJRA Overseas Relief program from January to October 1947 - Transmissions and supplies
- Collection
- Canadian Jewish Congress organizational records
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- textual record
- Fonds No.
- CJC0001; FA 2; CJC-IOI-FA2-288
- Date
- 12/12/1947
$1,209,958 quota of Combined Jewish Appeal in Montreal over-subscribed by $85,648
- Collection
- Canadian Jewish Congress organizational records
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- textual record
- Fonds No.
- CJC0001; FA 2; CJC-IOI-FA2-260
- Date
- 11/04/1947
$1,250,000 per month estimated by JDC for transportation costs for immigration to Israel
- Collection
- Canadian Jewish Congress organizational records
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- textual record
- Fonds No.
- CJC0001; FA 2; CJC-IOI-FA2-453
- Date
- 08/13/1948
$1,400 received from Corner Brooke, Newfoundland
- Collection
- Canadian Jewish Congress organizational records
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- textual record
- Fonds No.
- CJC0001; FA 2; CJC-IOI-FA2-644
- Date
- 06/01/1949
$1,489 paid for tailors' relief in Montreal
- Collection
- Canadian Jewish Congress organizational records
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- textual record
- Fonds No.
- CJC0001; FA 2; CJC-IOI-FA2-393
- Date
- 05/17/1948
$1,502 paid for shipments costs
- Collection
- Canadian Jewish Congress organizational records
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- textual record
- Fonds No.
- CJC0001; FA 2; CJC-IOI-FA2-207
- Date
- 08/08/1947
1,715 people visited book exhibit in Montreal
- Collection
- Canadian Jewish Congress organizational records
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- textual record
- Fonds No.
- CJC0001; FA 2; CJC-IOI-FA2-57
- Date
- 12/27/1946
$1,997 costs of shipments of Kosher meat to Germany, Italy and France
- Collection
- Canadian Jewish Congress organizational records
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- textual record
- Fonds No.
- CJC0001; FA 2; CJC-IOI-FA2-532
- Date
- 12/17/1948
$1,997 transportation costs of orphans brought to Canada in November
- Collection
- Canadian Jewish Congress organizational records
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- textual record
- Fonds No.
- CJC0001; FA 2; CJC-IOI-FA2-552
- Date
- 01/14/1949
$2,000,000 Campaign - report at the Toronto conference
- Collection
- Canadian Jewish Congress organizational records
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- textual record
- Fonds No.
- CJC0001; FA 2; CJC-IOI-FA2-140
- Date
- 04/28/1947