Affidavit
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- textual record
- Physical Description
- Affidavit : paper : Ink : beige, black, green ; Ht: 22,5 cm x W: 19,8 cm
- Date
- August 1958
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- textual record
- Physical Description
- Affidavit : paper : Ink : beige, black, green ; Ht: 22,5 cm x W: 19,8 cm
- Other Title Information
- Documentary Artifact
- Date
- August 1958
- Physical Condition
- Good
- Language
- German
- Notes
- 2 pages, single sided. Page numbers in the bottom right corner. Sworn statement from Zali Friedman (nee Adler), testifying of her realtionship to the Zilberbogen family. Narrative: The Zilberbogen were a Jewish family originally from Warsaw (Poland). Mother Chana and daughters Elzbieta (born 1933) and Celinka (born 1937) moved to Belgium in 1939. The father, Szygmundt, an engineer, stayed in Poland. During the Second World War, the mother and daughters were first sent to Brens camp and then to Rivesaltes camp in the South of France before being released. Chana was then hospitalized and spent the war hidden in a Sanatorium in Mazamet from 1940 to 1947. Elzbieta and Celinka were hidden in various locations in the South of France, including a farm and different children's homes run by OSE. Szygmundt was killed in Poland. Chana and her daughters went back to live in Belgium after Liberation until immigrating to Canada in 1951.
- Accession No.
- 2012.15.189
- Name Access
- Peltier, Cécile
- Places
- Montreal, Canada, North America
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
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