Letter
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn76199
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- textual record
- Physical Description
- Letter : Paper : Printed, Typed : Ink : Beige, Black ; Ht: 10 7/8 in. x W: 8 3/8 in.
- Date
- May 10, 1948
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- textual record
- Physical Description
- Letter : Paper : Printed, Typed : Ink : Beige, Black ; Ht: 10 7/8 in. x W: 8 3/8 in.
- Other Title Information
- Documentary Artifact
- Date
- May 10, 1948
- Physical Condition
- Good
- Language
- English
- Notes
- 1 page, single-sided. Folded once vertically and once horizontally. Paper printed with letterhead of The American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee, Inc., Far Eastern Office, Shanghai. Document is a letter to the American Consulate General in Shanghai, certifying that Salomon Heiss had been working for the office as a messenger since August 12, 1947. Narrative: Salomon Heiss was the father of the donor, Erika Bloom. The Heiss family fled Nazi-occupied Vienna in 1938, after Salomon was arrested and detained in Dachau for 3 days. They survived the war in Shanghai, immigrated to Israel in 1949, and eventually settled in Montreal.
- Accession No.
- 2002.25.04
- Name Access
- Bloom, Erika
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
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