Class portrait

https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn76541
Collection
Montreal Holocaust Museum
Description Level
Item
Material Type
graphic material
Physical Description
Photograph : Cardstock : Printed : Ink : B&W ; Ht: 8,5 cm x W: 13,5 cm
Date
1920
Collection
Montreal Holocaust Museum
Description Level
Item
Material Type
graphic material
Physical Description
Photograph : Cardstock : Printed : Ink : B&W ; Ht: 8,5 cm x W: 13,5 cm
Other Title Information
Documentary Artifact
Date
1920
Physical Condition
Excellent
Language
Yiddish
Notes
B&W, indoors. 23 children pose with 10 young adults in roughly 4 rows. Placard in centre of bottom row with Yiddish or Hebrew text and the year 1920. Likely an educational or Zionist organization. Document is a postcard. Narrative: The donors parents were Meilach Magid and Yocheved Bejlach, both teachers. They came to Canada in 1921, returned to Poland, and then settled in Canada in 1924. Meilach graduated from McGill in 1929. He was the principal of United Talmud Torah School and later founded Herzliah High School in 1946.
Accession No.
2014.19.40
Name Access
Clamen, Miriam
Places
Bia?ystok , Poland, Europe
Archival / Genealogical
Archival Descriptions
Repository
Montreal Holocaust Museum
Images
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