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Jegergarn, Chaim - Oral History of a Holocaust Survivor
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn60305
- Collection
- WITNESS TO HISTORY COLLECTION (MHMC-02)
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- moving images
- Physical Description
- 01:59:14
- Collection
- WITNESS TO HISTORY COLLECTION (MHMC-02)
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- moving images
- Physical Description
- 01:59:14
- Language
- English
- Notes
- Chaim Jegergarn was born in Janow Lubelski, Poland in 1912. He and his seven siblings were raised in a poor family. He did not go to school. At only ten years old, he learned to be a tailor. In 1935, he served in the Polish Army for 18 months. He got married in 1937. After Kristallnacht, he escaped with his family to Russia. From there they went to Lvov, Ukraine (Lwow, Poland), where Chaim registered to go to work in Selovalika ?, Russia, where he worked as a tailor. There, they were bombed so they moved by train to a small place in the woods near Yaroslavl. In 1941, he moved to Kozyatyn, Uzbekistan, to work in a factory. Chaim obtained a Russian pass and moved near Tashkent, where he stayed for nearly three years working in the coal mines. He contracted typhus and later worked as tailor in a factory. In 1945, he left Tashkent to return by train to Szczecin, Poland. Except for two brothers, the rest of his family in Poland perished during the Holocaust. From 1946 to 1948, Chaim stayed in a DP camp in Eschwege, Germany. In July 1948, Chaim came to Montreal with his wife, son, daughter, and brother in an effort to begin a new life.
- Accession No.
- WTH-290
- Name Access
- Jegergarn, Chaim
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
Images
SCHWARTZ, Musia = Photos of postwar Germany and Canada.
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn305
- Collection
- SCHWARTZ, Musia = Photos of postwar Germany and Canada.
- Description Level
- Fonds
- Physical Description
- 22 records in electronic form.
- Fonds No.
- P0205
- Date
- 1946-1952.
- Scope and Content
- 22 TIFF scans of photos borrowed from her personal album, showing Eschwege DP camp. Glasterhausen orphanage. Hamburg and scenes after immigrating to Montreal. Some are portraits of the donor and some include husband Leon and friends, aunt.
- Description Level
- Fonds
- Physical Description
- 22 records in electronic form.
- Scope and Content
- 22 TIFF scans of photos borrowed from her personal album, showing Eschwege DP camp. Glasterhausen orphanage. Hamburg and scenes after immigrating to Montreal. Some are portraits of the donor and some include husband Leon and friends, aunt.
- Date
- 1946-1952.
- Fonds No.
- P0205
- History / Biographical
- Musia Schwartz came to Canada as a war orphan after having lived under a false identity through the war years. She was a student and later close friend of Irving Layton, who dedicated a poem to her For Musia's grandchildren.
- Custodial History
- The photos were made available to CJCNA through filmmaker Dov Okouneff, who is also using them in a film. They were donated, with Musia's permission, on June 1, 2002.
- Notes
- PCAT, P06/02.Mrs. Schwartz should be notify if used.UJRA - War Orphans collection.
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Canadian Jewish Archives
Images
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