Allied Soldier Outside Barrack at Bergen-Belsen
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn76667
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- Photograph : paper ; Ht: 7 cm x W: 10 cm
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- Photograph : paper ; Ht: 7 cm x W: 10 cm
- Other Title Information
- Documentary Artifact
- Physical Condition
- Poor
- Notes
- B&w photograph with a white border. An outdoor scene, in which an Allied soldier is standing in front of a barrack at Bergen-Belsen. A woman is kneeling on the ground with what seems to be a pile of clothing. Narrative: A collection of photographs was brought back to Canada by RAF soldier Frank Wilshaw, who visited the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp after Liberation.
- Accession No.
- 2012.05.23
- Name Access
- Stobnicky, Arnie
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
Images
Allied Soldiers at Bergen-Belsen
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn76669
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- Photograph : paper ; Ht: 10 cm x W: 7 cm
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- Photograph : paper ; Ht: 10 cm x W: 7 cm
- Other Title Information
- Documentary Artifact
- Physical Condition
- Poor
- Notes
- B&w photograph with a white border. An outdoor portrait of two Allied soldiers standing beside an army vehicle at Bergen-Belsen. In the back of the van, the bodies of the victims are in a pile and overflowing. Narrative: A collection of photographs was brought back to Canada by RAF soldier Frank Wilshaw, who visited the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp after Liberation.
- Accession No.
- 2012.05.25
- Name Access
- Stobnicky, Arnie
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
Images
An Anthology of Songs and Poems from the Ghettos and Concentration Camps
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn51206
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- textual record
- Physical Description
- Book : printed : beige, black ; Ht: 31 cm x W: 21,3 cm
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- textual record
- Physical Description
- Book : printed : beige, black ; Ht: 31 cm x W: 21,3 cm
- Other Title Information
- Documentary Artifact
- Creator
- -
- Physical Condition
- fragile
- Language
- English
- Yiddish
- Notes
- 44 pages. Unbound. Pages have text, printed in columns, illustrations and musical scores. Includes poems from Lodz (Litzmannstadt) ghetto and the Partisan song by Hirsh Glik. Published by Holocaust survivors in Bergen-Belsen Displaced Persons camp.
- Accession No.
- 2011X.337.01
- Name Access
- Trepman, Babey
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
Images
Back from Hell: Collected Sketches by Berl Friedler
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn47879
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- textual record
- Physical Description
- Book : printed, bound, drawn : beige, black, red ; Ht: 22,4 cm x W: 30,2 cm
- Date
- 1947
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- textual record
- Physical Description
- Book : printed, bound, drawn : beige, black, red ; Ht: 22,4 cm x W: 30,2 cm
- Other Title Information
- Documentary Artifact
- Date
- 1947
- Creator
- -
- Physical Condition
- Poor
- Language
- English
- Yiddish
- Notes
- 44 pages, softcover, stapled spine, title written in Hebrew on the front cover and in English on the back cover. Book starts off with 2 pages of text, continues with 1 sketch per page with hebrew captions, some sketches have been coloured in with red pencil-crayon. Narrative: A series of sketches depicting scenes from concentration camps.
- Accession No.
- 2005.21.01
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
Images
Back from Hell: Collected Sketches by Berl Friedler
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn48197
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- textual record
- Physical Description
- Book : printed, bound, drawn : beige, black, red ; Ht: 22,4 cm x W: 30,2 cm
- Date
- 1947
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- textual record
- Physical Description
- Book : printed, bound, drawn : beige, black, red ; Ht: 22,4 cm x W: 30,2 cm
- Other Title Information
- Documentary Artifact
- Date
- 1947
- Creator
- -
- Physical Condition
- Poor
- Language
- English
- Hebrew
- Notes
- 44 pages, softcover, stapled spine, title written in Hebrew on the front cover and in English on the back cover. Book starts off with 2 pages of text, continues with 1 sketch per page with hebrew captions, some sketches have been coloured in with red pencil-crayon. Narrative: A series of sketches depicting scenes from concentration camps.
- Accession No.
- 2012X.78.01
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
Images
Back from Hell: Collected Sketches by Berl Friedler
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn48198
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- textual record
- Physical Description
- Book : printed, bound, drawn : beige, black, red ; Ht: 22,4 cm x W: 30,2 cm
- Date
- 1947
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- textual record
- Physical Description
- Book : printed, bound, drawn : beige, black, red ; Ht: 22,4 cm x W: 30,2 cm
- Other Title Information
- Documentary Artifact
- Date
- 1947
- Creator
- -
- Physical Condition
- Poor
- Language
- English
- Hebrew
- Notes
- 44 pages, softcover, stapled spine, title written in Hebrew on the front cover and in English on the back cover. Book starts off with 2 pages of text, continues with 1 sketch per page with hebrew captions, some sketches have been coloured in with red pencil-crayon. Narrative: A series of sketches depicting scenes from concentration camps.
- Accession No.
- 2012X.79.01
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
Images
Bergen-Belsen
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn90339
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- Photograph : Paper : photograph : b&w ; Ht: 11.7 cm x W: 8.8 cm
- Date
- April 1945
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- Photograph : Paper : photograph : b&w ; Ht: 11.7 cm x W: 8.8 cm
- Other Title Information
- Documentary Artifact
- Date
- April 1945
- Physical Condition
- Poor
- Language
- English
- Notes
- b&w with white border, outdoor scene. Truck and car on a road lined with trees. On the first tree, a white poster reads: Entrance Belsen Camp.
- Accession No.
- 2011X.70.02
- Name Access
- Beauchamp, Pierre
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
Images
Bergen-Belsen
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn90340
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- Photograph : Paper : photograph : b&w ; Ht: 7.4 cm x W: 6.5 cm
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- Photograph : Paper : photograph : b&w ; Ht: 7.4 cm x W: 6.5 cm
- Other Title Information
- Documentary Artifact
- Physical Condition
- Good
- Language
- English
- Notes
- b&w with white border, outdoor scene. Level crossing gate next to a plate that reads: Warning - All ranks to be dusted before entering the camp. It is the entrance of the Bergen Belsen Concentration camp.
- Accession No.
- 2011X.70.03
- Name Access
- Beauchamp, Pierre
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
Images
Bergen-Belsen
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn90341
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- Photograph : Paper : photograph : b&w ; Ht: 7.4 cm x W: 6.6 cm
- Date
- April 25, 1945
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- Photograph : Paper : photograph : b&w ; Ht: 7.4 cm x W: 6.6 cm
- Other Title Information
- Documentary Artifact
- Date
- April 25, 1945
- Physical Condition
- Good
- Language
- English
- Notes
- b&w with white border, outdoor scene. Graveyard in the concentration camp of Bergen-Belsen with a plate that reads: Grave # 2 Approx 5000.
- Accession No.
- 2011X.70.04
- Name Access
- Beauchamp, Pierre
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
Images
Bergen-Belsen
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn90342
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- Photograph : Paper : photograph : b&w ; Ht: 7.4 cm x W: 6.6 cm
- Date
- April 1945
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- Photograph : Paper : photograph : b&w ; Ht: 7.4 cm x W: 6.6 cm
- Other Title Information
- Documentary Artifact
- Date
- April 1945
- Physical Condition
- Good
- Language
- English
- Notes
- b&w with white border, outdoor scene. Picture of the entrance of concentration camp Bergen-Belsen. On the left, there is a plate with the title “ Danger Typhus - Warning - No entry for visitors by order of commander 2nd army apply 899 “
- Accession No.
- 2011X.70.05
- Name Access
- Beauchamp, Pierre
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
Images
Bergen-Belsen former prisoners eating inside a building
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn45493
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- Photograph : paper : photography : black, white ; Ht: 8 in. x W: 10 1/4 in.
- Date
- 1945-1946
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- Photograph : paper : photography : black, white ; Ht: 8 in. x W: 10 1/4 in.
- Other Title Information
- Documentary Artifact
- Date
- 1945-1946
- Physical Condition
- Good
- Language
- French
- Notes
- b&w, white border. Indoors. Emaciated men wearing white shirts, their lower halves wrapped in blankets. They are sitting up on stretchers and eating or talking. The stretchers are lined up perpendicular to the wall and the windows are all open. Opposite the prisoners sit two soldiers, talking to them; the soldiers' faces are not visible.
- Accession No.
- 2005.37.02
- Name Access
- Benoit, Lucien
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
Images
Burying the Dead at Bergen-Belsen
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn76646
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- Photograph : paper ; Ht: 6,9 cm x W: 10 cm
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- Photograph : paper ; Ht: 6,9 cm x W: 10 cm
- Other Title Information
- Documentary Artifact
- Physical Condition
- Good
- Notes
- B&w photograph with a white border. An outdoor scene, in which SS personnel are forced to bury the corpses in pits, while Allied troops point their guns at them. The bodies are overflowing from a wagon. In the background, the barracks and army vehicles are visible. Narrative: A collection of photographs was brought back to Canada by RAF soldier Frank Wilshaw, who visited the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp after Liberation.
- Accession No.
- 2012.05.02
- Name Access
- Stobnicky, Arnie
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
Images
Burying the Dead at Bergen-Belsen
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn76647
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- Photograph : paper ; Ht: 7 cm x W: 10 cm
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- Photograph : paper ; Ht: 7 cm x W: 10 cm
- Other Title Information
- Documentary Artifact
- Physical Condition
- Good
- Notes
- B&w photograph with a white border. An outdoor scene, in which SS personnel are forced to carry and bury the corpses in a mass grave at Bergen-Belsen, while an Allied troop looks on. Narrative: A collection of photographs was brought back to Canada by RAF soldier Frank Wilshaw, who visited the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp after Liberation.
- Accession No.
- 2012.05.03
- Name Access
- Stobnicky, Arnie
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
Images
Corpses at Bergen-Belsen
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn76654
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- Photograph : paper ; Ht: 7 cm x W: 9,9 cm
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- Photograph : paper ; Ht: 7 cm x W: 9,9 cm
- Other Title Information
- Documentary Artifact
- Physical Condition
- Good
- Notes
- B&w photograph with a white border. An outdoor portrait of corpses that were found at Bergen-Belsen upon the camp's Liberation. There is a mound of clothing visible through the dirt. A male body is emaciated and is found on top of the others. The man's eyes were open when he died and his left hand is reaching towards his face. Narrative: A collection of photographs was brought back to Canada by RAF soldier Frank Wilshaw, who visited the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp after Liberation.
- Accession No.
- 2012.05.10
- Name Access
- Stobnicky, Arnie
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
Images
Exiting Bergen-Belsen
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn76657
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- Photograph : paper ; Ht: 6,9 cm x W: 9,9 cm
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- Photograph : paper ; Ht: 6,9 cm x W: 9,9 cm
- Other Title Information
- Documentary Artifact
- Physical Condition
- Poor
- Language
- English
- German
- Notes
- B&w photograph with a white border. An outdoor portrait of the exit at Bergen-Belsen. There are two signs, one in English and one in German. The English one says "You are leaving camp bounds. Are you armed?" The German one says "Nach Obernkirchen." In the background, there is a building visible, surrounded by many trees. Narrative: A collection of photographs was brought back to Canada by RAF soldier Frank Wilshaw, who visited the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp after Liberation.
- Accession No.
- 2012.05.13
- Name Access
- Stobnicky, Arnie
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
Images
Gravestone
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn60111
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- Photograph : Paper ; Ht: 2 3/4 in. x W: 4 in.
- Date
- 1955-1957
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- Photograph : Paper ; Ht: 2 3/4 in. x W: 4 in.
- Other Title Information
- Documentary Artifact
- Date
- 1955-1957
- Physical Condition
- Good
- Language
- English
- German
- Notes
- b&w picture of a gravestone in form of a simple sign that reads: "Here lie buried 2000 bodies" in English and German and the date 23/04/1945 Narrative: The grave was dug up and a wooden board was placed on the earth as a memorial for the buried death inmates of the concentration camp Bergen-Belsen. The donor and her late husband Thomas took these photos in 1955 - 1957 when they were stioned in Germany. Her husband was a soldier in the Canadian army and then became part of the NATO peacekeeping troops.
- Accession No.
- 2000.102.11
- Name Access
- Quinsey, June
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
Images
Gravestone
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn60112
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- Photograph : Paper ; Ht: 2 3/4 in. x W: 4 in.
- Date
- 1955-1957
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- Photograph : Paper ; Ht: 2 3/4 in. x W: 4 in.
- Other Title Information
- Documentary Artifact
- Date
- 1955-1957
- Physical Condition
- Good
- Language
- English
- German
- Notes
- b&w picture of a gravestone in form of a simple sign that reads: "Here lie buried 800 bodies" in English and German and the date 23/04/1945 Narrative: The grave was dug up and a wooden board was placed on the earth as a memorial for the buried death inmates of the concentration camp Bergen-Belsen. The donor and her late husband Thomas took these photos in 1955 - 1957 when they were stioned in Germany. Her husband was a soldier in the Canadian army and then became part of the NATO peacekeeping troops.
- Accession No.
- 2000.102.13
- Name Access
- Quinsey, June
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
Images
Identification card
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn76176
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- textual record
- Physical Description
- Identification card : Cardboard : Printed, Handwritten : Ink : Beige, Black ; Ht: 5 in. x W: 8 in.
- Date
- September 29, 1945
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- textual record
- Physical Description
- Identification card : Cardboard : Printed, Handwritten : Ink : Beige, Black ; Ht: 5 in. x W: 8 in.
- Other Title Information
- Documentary Artifact
- Date
- September 29, 1945
- Physical Condition
- Good
- Language
- English
- Notes
- 1 page, double-sided. Folded once vertically. Document is a copy of the registration record of Judith (Judit) Winkler for the Displaced Persons system of the AEF (Allied Expeditionary Force). Recto is a printed form with personal information about Judith. Numbered G21539790. On verso, printed section entitled 'medical clearance certificate' left blank. Narrative: Judith Winkler was born in Hungary. She was deported to Auschwitz on July 9, 1944 and was liberated on May 14, 1945 in Dachau. After the war she lived in the Bergen-Belsen Displaced Persons Camp until her brother found her and took her to Ainring Displaced Persons Camp. He was living there with Mendel Berlach; both men had survived a death march together. Judith and Mendel married in March 1947.
- Accession No.
- 1999.29.08
- Name Access
- Berlach, Judith
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
Images
Jewish Women in Liberation March at Bergen-Belsen
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn45713
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- Photograph : Ht: 9 cm x W: 6,4 cm
- Date
- 1946
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- Photograph : Ht: 9 cm x W: 6,4 cm
- Other Title Information
- Documentary Artifact
- Date
- 1946
- Creator
- 0
- Physical Condition
- Good
- Notes
- b&w with a white border. Outdoor scene. Jewish women holding flags and marching on the occasion of the anniversary of the liberation of the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp. A building is seen in the background behind them with a tall lamp post in front of it. In the background, one can see a sign stating “On the day of Liberation”, a star of David as well as three flags: one with the star of David, one British flag and one American flag. The women are dressed in long dark skirts and white blouses with the exception of the two leaders who wear white blouses with light coloured pants. Narrative: The photograph was taken during a visit of the camp by a group of Polish soldiers after Liberation
- Accession No.
- 2011.40.01
- Name Access
- Glaser, Willie
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
Images
Letter
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn45467
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- textual record
- Physical Description
- Letter : paper : handwritten : ink : grey, black ; Ht: 7,5 in. x W: 10,25 in.
- Date
- April 30, 1945
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- textual record
- Physical Description
- Letter : paper : handwritten : ink : grey, black ; Ht: 7,5 in. x W: 10,25 in.
- Other Title Information
- Documentary Artifact
- Date
- April 30, 1945
- Physical Condition
- Good
- Language
- English
- Notes
- Double-sided personal letter on an envelope which unfolds; there is writing in both sides, as well as the address and sender's information. Written by Saul Stein to his father Ben Stein in Montreal. Saul describes his impressions of Bergen-Belsen when he and other R.C.A.F. soldiers liberated the concentration camp. He details his impressions, asks that his friends and family spread the news and hopes they can find some way of helping.
- Accession No.
- 2000.10.10
- Name Access
- Stein, Saul
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
Images
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