Letter

https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn75128
Collection
Montreal Holocaust Museum
Description Level
Item
Material Type
textual record
Physical Description
Letter : Paper : Printed, Typed, Handwritten : Colour pencil; Ink; Graphite pencil : White, Black, Blue ; Ht: 10 3/4 in. x W: 8 1/2 in.
Date
November 08, 1940
Collection
Montreal Holocaust Museum
Description Level
Item
Material Type
textual record
Physical Description
Letter : Paper : Printed, Typed, Handwritten : Colour pencil; Ink; Graphite pencil : White, Black, Blue ; Ht: 10 3/4 in. x W: 8 1/2 in.
Other Title Information
Documentary Artifact
Date
November 08, 1940
Physical Condition
Good
Language
French
German
Dutch
Notes
Letter issued by Brussels police informing Otto Bondy that he has been fined 3 RM for a traffic infraction. Details are handwritten in the top left-hand corner, with signature underneath. Some unintelligible writing in blue pencil diagonally above this. Narrative: Otto Bondy was the father of the donor, Walter Absil. He was born in Vienna, Austria on January 1, 1897, and fled to Belgium with his family in 1938. He was deported from the Malines (Melechen) transit camp in Belgium to Auschwitz in September 1943, where he was murdered.
Accession No.
1990.96.05
Name Access
Absil, Walter
Places
Brussels, Belgium, Europe
Archival / Genealogical
Archival Descriptions
Repository
Montreal Holocaust Museum
Images
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