Presentation of plaque to Prime Minister Lester B. Pearson at Holocaust rally in Ottawa
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn60116
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- Photograph : Paper ; Ht: 10 in. x W: 8 in.
- Date
- May 1965
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- Photograph : Paper ; Ht: 10 in. x W: 8 in.
- Other Title Information
- Documentary Artifact
- Date
- May 1965
- Physical Condition
- Excellent
- Notes
- b&w, Lou Zablow presents plaque to Prime Minister Lester B. Pearson in front of the Houses of Parliament Narrative: Lou Zablow (1924-2005) was a Holocaust survivor from Lodz, Poland. He survived the Lodz ghetto, was deported to Auschwitz where he stayed four days before being sent to slave labour in Lieberose, Sachenhausen, and Mauthausen concentration camps. In April 1945, he was forced on a death march to Gunskirchen concentration camp where he was liberated by the US army. He immigrated to Montreal in 1949 and became the president of the Association of Survivors of Nazi Oppression (circa 1963-1971) and took part in the creation of the MHMC in 1979.
- Accession No.
- 2011X.359.22
- Name Access
- Zablow, Lou
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
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