Collection

Montreal Holocaust Museum

Description Level

Item

Material Type

textual record

Physical Description

Certificate : Paper : Printed, Typed, Handwritten : Ink : B&W ; Ht: 29,7 cm x W: 21 cm

Other Title Information

Documentary Artifact

Date

[Later than 1945]

Physical Condition

Excellent

Language

French

Notes

1 page, single-sided. Folded 3 times horizontally. Official document from the Belgian Minister of Public Health and Environment, War Victims Administration, attesting that Otto Bondy was interned in Malines (Mechelen) transit camp in Belgium on September 18, 1943 and was deported from Malines on September 20, 1943 as prisoner number 3 on transport 22A. The document states that Otto Bondy did not return. Document refers to file number 00096, code ABSWA1, and 125/CB/PF is typed under the letterhead. Narrative: Otto Bondy was the father of the donor, Walter Absil. He was born in Vienna, Austria on January 27, 1897, and fled to Belgium with his family in 1938, one day after the annexion of Austria by the German Reich. He was deported from the Malines (Melechen) transit camp in Belgium to Auschwitz, Poland in September 1943, where he was murdered.

Accession No.

2011X.64.01

Name Access

Absil, Walter

Places

Brussels, Belgium, Europe

Archival / Genealogical

Archival Descriptions

Repository

Montreal Holocaust Museum

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