Postcard
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn51351
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- textual record
- Physical Description
- Postcard : Paper ; Ht: 4 in. x W: 5 3/4 in.
- Date
- August 31, 1949
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- textual record
- Physical Description
- Postcard : Paper ; Ht: 4 in. x W: 5 3/4 in.
- Other Title Information
- Documentary Artifact
- Date
- August 31, 1949
- Physical Condition
- Good
- Language
- German
- Notes
- Pre-printed information card. Black ink circular postal ink stamp with date and place on top right corner; brown postal stamp with image of a church and number 4 on top right corner. Purpple ink stamp for IRO on bottom left side. Addressed to Emil Kroo in Fürth regarding his status as refugee and informatoin on how to get help from the International Refugee Organization. Narrative: Donor Emil Kroo is a Holocaust survivor originally from Munkacz (Czech Republic). Emil was in terned in a slave labour cmap in Hungary until 1944. He later met his wife Rosa Magien in Romania. After the war they were in a displaced persons camp in Fürth, Germany. Emil Kroo was the Vice-President of the Central Committee of liberated Jews in the American Zone of Germany. They immigrated to New York in 1950 before settling in Montreal.
- Accession No.
- 2001.17.05
- Name Access
- Kroo, Emil
- Places
- Wuerzburg, Germany, Europe
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
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