Narrow Results By
Adolf Hilter im Berliner Stadion (Adolf Hitler inside the Berlin Stadium)
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn49625
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- Trading card : paper : printed : ink : beige, black, multi-colored ; Ht: 6,4 cm x W: 4,6 cm
- Date
- 1934
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- Trading card : paper : printed : ink : beige, black, multi-colored ; Ht: 6,4 cm x W: 4,6 cm
- Other Title Information
- Documentary Artifact
- Date
- 1934
- Physical Condition
- Good
- Language
- German
- Notes
- White border. Double sided rectangular card, with photograph on the recto, and black text on the verso. Photograph taken outdoors at a stadium, showing a group of men walking. Adolf Hitler is in the front of the group wearing a brown long jacket. The rest of the group are mostly wearing military uniforms. In the foreground is a grey statue of a man walking. Narrative: The cigarette cards were packaged inside of Salem cigarette packs and were used as NSDAP propaganda in the 1930s. They were meant to be collected and inserted into an accompanying album.
- Accession No.
- 1996.01.07
- Name Access
- Daudelin, Pierre
- Places
- Berlin, Germany, Europe
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
Images
Adolf Hitler auf der Funkausstellung 1933 (Adolf Hitler at the IFA -International Radio Exhibition- in 1933)
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn49620
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- Trading card : paper : printed : ink : beige, black, multi-colored ; Ht: 6,4 cm x W: 4,6 cm
- Date
- 1934
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- Trading card : paper : printed : ink : beige, black, multi-colored ; Ht: 6,4 cm x W: 4,6 cm
- Other Title Information
- Documentary Artifact
- Date
- 1934
- Physical Condition
- Good
- Language
- German
- Notes
- White border. Double sided rectangular card, with photograph on the recto, and black text on the verso. Group of men indoors, standing around a grey table with a grey fence around it. Adolf Hitler is in the middle of the group, wearing a grey suit, and is leaning on the fence with his right arm. the men in the group are wearing military uniforms. Photograph was taken at the Internationale Funkausstellung Berlin or International radio exhibition, one of the oldest industrial exhibitions in Germany. It was during this exhibition that the radio receiver called Volksempfänger was presented for the first time. Narrative: The cigarette cards were packaged inside of Salem cigarette packs and were used as NSDAP propaganda in the 1930s. They were meant to be collected and inserted into an accompanying album.".
- Accession No.
- 1996.01.02
- Name Access
- Daudelin, Pierre
- Places
- Berlin, Germany, Europe
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
Images
Atonement
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn47685
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- book
- Physical Description
- Book : printed, bound, gilded : black, gold, beige ; Ht: 20,9 cm x W: 14 cm
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- book
- Physical Description
- Book : printed, bound, gilded : black, gold, beige ; Ht: 20,9 cm x W: 14 cm
- Other Title Information
- Documentary Artifact
- Physical Condition
- Good
- Language
- German
- Hebrew
- Notes
- 565 pages. Hardcover, cardboard bound with string. Cover is black textured fabric, no text. Spine has 3 horizontal gilded double borders, with the title gilded between the top 2. The edges of the cover are folded over, covering the page edges. Interior pages are beige with text, some pages have both languages; the remaing pages, when lying flat, have German printed on the left page and Hebrew on the right.
- Accession No.
- 2011X.58.146
- Name Access
- MHMC
- Places
- Berlin, Germany, Europe
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
Images
Booklet fragment
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn48108
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- textual record
- Physical Description
- Booklet fragment : printed : beige, black ; Ht: 26 cm x W: 16,8 cm
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- textual record
- Physical Description
- Booklet fragment : printed : beige, black ; Ht: 26 cm x W: 16,8 cm
- Other Title Information
- Documentary Artifact
- Physical Condition
- Poor
- Language
- German
- Notes
- 15 pages. No cover, paper, not bound. Pages are beige with black text, divided into articles.
- Accession No.
- 2011X.240.12
- Name Access
- Murownik, Sylvia
- Places
- Berlin, Germany, Europe
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
Card
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn59354
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- textual record
- Physical Description
- Card : Paper : Printed : Ink : Beige, black ; Ht: 15 cm x W: 20,5 cm
- Date
- 1939-1945
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- textual record
- Physical Description
- Card : Paper : Printed : Ink : Beige, black ; Ht: 15 cm x W: 20,5 cm
- Other Title Information
- Documentary Artifact
- Date
- 1939-1945
- Physical Condition
- Good
- Language
- German
- Notes
- Page folded vertically down center, double-sided, dotted cutting guide along left edge, entitled Merkblatt, sections divided by bullet points. Instructional card detailing passport and visa regulations during wartime in Germany.
- Accession No.
- 2011X.58.292
- Name Access
- MHMC
- Places
- Berlin, Germany, Europe
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
Images
Currency
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn51299
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- object
- Physical Description
- Currency : paper : ink : Black, White, Red ; Ht: 3 3/8 in. x W: 7 5/8 in.
- Date
- July 25, 1923
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- object
- Physical Description
- Currency : paper : ink : Black, White, Red ; Ht: 3 3/8 in. x W: 7 5/8 in.
- Other Title Information
- Exchange Medium
- Date
- July 25, 1923
- Physical Condition
- Good
- Language
- German
- Notes
- 1 page, one-sided. Inscription “50 millionen” in the background. Verso is white, not printed Narrative: Weimar republic inflation era currency
- Accession No.
- 2011X.72.27
- Name Access
- Becker, Hillel
- Places
- Berlin, Germany, Europe
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
Images
Deutsches Lesebuch für Volksschulen
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn47508
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- textual record
- Physical Description
- Book : printed, bound, graphic arts : green, red, black, beige
- Date
- 1943
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- textual record
- Physical Description
- Book : printed, bound, graphic arts : green, red, black, beige
- Other Title Information
- Documentary Artifact
- Date
- 1943
- Creator
- -
- Physical Condition
- Good
- Language
- German
- Notes
- 383 pages. Hardcover, cardboard bound. Cover is textured green, with a darker green title printed at the top. The spine is covered by an adhesive tape with a red and black wood-like pattern; the back cover is plain green. The interior pages are beige with black text and b&w illustrations. Some of the text has been written in poem and article style.
- Accession No.
- 1995.31.01
- Name Access
- Reiner, Susanne
- Places
- Berlin, Germany, Europe
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
Images
Die Geschichten der Bibel
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn75115
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- book
- Physical Description
- Book : Paper; Cardboard : Printed : Ink : Beige, Black, Yellow, Brown, White, Blue, Green ; Ht: 7,75 in. x W: 5,25 in.
- Date
- 1936
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- book
- Physical Description
- Book : Paper; Cardboard : Printed : Ink : Beige, Black, Yellow, Brown, White, Blue, Green ; Ht: 7,75 in. x W: 5,25 in.
- Other Title Information
- Documentary Artifact
- Date
- 1936
- Creator
- -
- Physical Condition
- Good
- Language
- German
- Notes
- Book, bound with hard cover. On front cover, drawings of scenes from the Old Testament of the Bible. On back cover, map of Ancient Israel. Narrative: The donor, Miriam Grünfeld (Braun) won this book in 1936 as first prize in a poetry contest held by the children's section of a newspaper. She left Germany in a Kindertransport in 1938.
- Accession No.
- 2011X.86.02
- Name Access
- Braun, Miriam
- Places
- Berlin, Germany, Europe
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
Images
Die Reiche Israel und Judah
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn51222
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- textual record
- Physical Description
- Book : Bound : Ink : Yellow, Black, White, Blue, Red, Green, Brown ; Ht: 7,75 in. x W: 5,75 in.
- Date
- 1935
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- textual record
- Physical Description
- Book : Bound : Ink : Yellow, Black, White, Blue, Red, Green, Brown ; Ht: 7,75 in. x W: 5,75 in.
- Other Title Information
- Documentary Artifact
- Date
- 1935
- Creator
- -
- Physical Condition
- Poor
- Language
- German
- Notes
- Hard cover. Stories of the bible for children. On the cover there are 12 oval shields with the names and symbols of the 12 tribes of Israel (Reuben, Simeon, Judah, Issachar, Zebulun, Benjamin, Dan, Naphtali, Gad, Asher, Ephraim and Manasseh). On the back is an illustration of a map of Israel with temples, important locations (Samariah, Jerusalem, Dan), borders with surrounding countries, people and animals.
- Accession No.
- 2011X.58.145
- Name Access
- MHMC
- Places
- Berlin, Germany, Europe
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
Images
Diploma
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn50280
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- textual record
- Physical Description
- Diploma : Paper : Ink : Blue, Red, Blue ; Ht: 7,25 in. x W: 9 in.
- Date
- December 30, 1946
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- textual record
- Physical Description
- Diploma : Paper : Ink : Blue, Red, Blue ; Ht: 7,25 in. x W: 9 in.
- Other Title Information
- Documentary Artifact
- Date
- December 30, 1946
- Physical Condition
- Good
- Language
- English
- Hebrew
- Notes
- 1 page, folded in the middle, printed front and back. Illustration of American Flag and White and biue flag with star of David in the centre. B&W photograph of student Chonom Murawnik is glued on the top left corner and stamped with three black ink stamps. Narrative: Chonom Murawnik completed a course in radio telegraphy at the Displaced Persons Camp "Düppel Center" in Berlin
- Accession No.
- 2011X.240.02
- Name Access
- Murownik, Sylvia
- Places
- Berlin, Germany, Europe
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
Images
Dlusy, Jon - Oral History of a Holocaust Survivor
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn60314
- Collection
- WITNESS TO HISTORY COLLECTION (MHMC-02)
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- moving images
- Physical Description
- 01:50:00
- Collection
- WITNESS TO HISTORY COLLECTION (MHMC-02)
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- moving images
- Physical Description
- 01:50:00
- Language
- English
- Notes
- Jon Dlusy was born Yonah Dlusniewski on October 29, 1927 in Berlin, Germany, to Polish parents. They had moved to Germany in 1919, living in the Charlottenburg area of Berlin. There, his father had established a clothing manufacturing business. Jon had an older brother who later worked for the Canadian Air Force and got killed in Scotland in 1944 returning from an operation. In May 1938, Jon’s father decided to leave Germany because of the increasing antisemitism. They obtained visas for Belgium and fled Germany, leaving everything behind. They stayed in Antwerp for about four months, waiting for the Canadian visas. Once they received them, they immigrated to Montreal via Liverpool and Halifax. They already had family in Canada. They lived in Outremont. Jon is now retired. His mother lived until 101 years old.
- Accession No.
- WTH-455
- Name Access
- Dlusy, Jon
- Places
- Berlin, Germany, Europe
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
Images
Dr. Goebbels trifft aus Genf kommend in Berlin ein (Dr. Goebbels coming from Geneva arrives in Berlin)
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn49639
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- Trading card : paper : printed : ink : beige, black, multi-colored ; Ht: 6,4 cm x W: 4,6 cm
- Date
- 1934
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- Trading card : paper : printed : ink : beige, black, multi-colored ; Ht: 6,4 cm x W: 4,6 cm
- Other Title Information
- Documentary Artifact
- Date
- 1934
- Physical Condition
- Good
- Language
- German
- Notes
- White border. Double sided rectangular card, with photograph on the recto, and black text on the verso. Group portrait of men standing behind a grey camera and stand. In the centre of the group is Joseph Goebbels wearing a white jacket and hat. The other men are wearing grey suits, and brown military uniforms. Narrative: The cigarette cards were packaged inside of Salem cigarette packs and were used as NSDAP propaganda in the 1930s. They were meant to be collected and inserted into an accompanying album.
- Accession No.
- 1996.01.21
- Name Access
- Daudelin, Pierre
- Places
- Berlin, Germany, Europe
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
Images
Driver's license
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn59806
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- textual record
- Physical Description
- Driver's license : paper, cardstock : Printed, stamped : ink : Grey, purple, beige, black. ; Ht: 15 cm x W: 11 cm
- Date
- April 13, 1937
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- textual record
- Physical Description
- Driver's license : paper, cardstock : Printed, stamped : ink : Grey, purple, beige, black. ; Ht: 15 cm x W: 11 cm
- Other Title Information
- Documentary Artifact
- Date
- April 13, 1937
- Physical Condition
- Good
- Language
- German
- English
- French
- Czech
- Yiddish
- Russian
- Polish
- Dutch
- Spanish
- Notes
- Softcover booklet, 39 pages, issued to Chaim Braude, b&w photo of him on page 3 with Nazi ink stamp, contains versions of the form in multiple European languages
- Accession No.
- 2006.24.3
- Name Access
- Etingin, Marina
- Places
- Berlin, Germany, Europe
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
Images
Eintopf in der Reichskanzlei (Stew at the Reich Chancellery)
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn49641
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- Trading card : paper : printed : ink : beige, black, multi-colored ; Ht: 6,4 cm x W: 4,6 cm
- Date
- 1934
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- Trading card : paper : printed : ink : beige, black, multi-colored ; Ht: 6,4 cm x W: 4,6 cm
- Other Title Information
- Documentary Artifact
- Date
- 1934
- Physical Condition
- Good
- Language
- German
- Notes
- White border. Double sided rectangular card, with photograph on the recto, and black text on the verso. Group of men sitting around a a white table. In the foreground is Adolf Hitler wearing a brown suit with a red arm band. To his left is a man also wearing a brown suit, and seems to be talking to Hitler. Photograph was taken at the Chancellery. Narrative: The cigarette cards were packaged inside of Salem cigarette packs and were used as NSDAP propaganda in the 1930s. They were meant to be collected and inserted into an accompanying album.
- Accession No.
- 1996.01.23
- Name Access
- Daudelin, Pierre
- Places
- Berlin, Germany, Europe
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
Images
Elefandl
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn75146
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- book
- Physical Description
- Book : Paper : Printed : Ink : Beige, Black, Red ; Ht: 10 3/4 in. x W: 8 1/2 in.
- Date
- 1922
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- book
- Physical Description
- Book : Paper : Printed : Ink : Beige, Black, Red ; Ht: 10 3/4 in. x W: 8 1/2 in.
- Other Title Information
- Documentary Artifact
- Date
- 1922
- Creator
- -
- Physical Condition
- Good
- Language
- Yiddish
- Notes
- Bound hardcover children's book. Front cover shows a cartoon elephant walking upright, trunk in the air, inside a red circle. Title above image in alternating red and black letters. Author's last name above title in black text. Red and black border. Yiddish translation of the children's book "Elephant's Child" by Joseph Rudyard Kipling.
- Accession No.
- 2011X.172.03
- Name Access
- Jewish Public Library
- Places
- Berlin, Germany, Europe
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
Images
Exiner, Robert - Oral History of a Holocaust Survivor
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn60307
- Collection
- WITNESS TO HISTORY COLLECTION (MHMC-02)
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- moving images
- Physical Description
- 01:37:33
- Collection
- WITNESS TO HISTORY COLLECTION (MHMC-02)
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- moving images
- Physical Description
- 01:37:33
- Language
- English
- Notes
- Robert Exiner was born on March 2, 1916 in Berlin, Germany. His father was in the clothing business and his mother helped him. They were a middle-class family and lived well. Robert was an only child, though he had an older brother who died before he was born. His family was not strictly religious; however, he had had a bar mitzvah. Robert identified as a German who happened to be Jewish. He attended a private preschool for three years before moving to a French gymnasium that focused on Liberal Arts. He graduated when he was 18, in 1934. After graduating he could not go to university since he was Jewish. A textile college accepted him, not for the regular two-year course but for the six-month course. He did four. He was not ready to leave Germany. During this time his father died. Robert was a member of the Iron Front, a Nationalist organization. They were dissolved, but carried on illegally for a year in Upper Silesia before being caught. He spent a night in an SS cell after which he decided to leave Germany. He had had a visa to Australia, but that had expired. He managed to get another one and left for Australia in July 1938. He spent three months in Sydney before moving on to Melbourne, where he found nightshift work in a ribbon factory. When the war broke out in 1939 he volunteered for and joined the army. Eventually he was made an assistant in the medical hut, trained for the medical core, and then ran a depot specializing in the prevention of venereal diseases. After the war, Robert found work running a factory, handling the business side. He stayed there until he retired at age 70. During this time he married a dancer/dance teacher who ran a dance studio. They had two sons. He regrets not having been able to go to university when he was younger and pursue an academic career, but he did obtain his M.A. at the age of 76. Now he gives lectures in Melbourne, volunteers for a classical music station and plays the recorder twice a week with difference groups.
- Accession No.
- WTH-321
- Name Access
- Exiner, Robert
- Places
- Berlin, Germany, Europe
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
Images
Extermination of Polish Jews: Album of Pictures
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn45486
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- book
- Physical Description
- Book : printed, bound, photographed : black, white ; Ht: 21,8 cm x W: 31,7 cm
- Date
- 1958
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- book
- Physical Description
- Book : printed, bound, photographed : black, white ; Ht: 21,8 cm x W: 31,7 cm
- Other Title Information
- Documentary Artifact
- Date
- 1958
- Physical Condition
- Good
- Language
- English
- French
- Hebrew
- Yiddish
- Polish
- Russian
- Notes
- 103 pages, hardcover, bound with string. Black covers with title in English, Hebrew and Yiddish on the front, blank on the back. Interior pages consist of 238 photographs of Jews in ghettos and concentration camps with captions in various languages on glossy paper.
- Accession No.
- 2005.09.01
- Name Access
- Knecht, Sara
- Places
- Berlin, Germany, Europe
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
Images
Extermination of Polish Jews: Album of Pictures
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn48199
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- book
- Physical Description
- Book : printed, bound, photographed : black, white ; Ht: 24,7 cm x W: 34,2 cm
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- book
- Physical Description
- Book : printed, bound, photographed : black, white ; Ht: 24,7 cm x W: 34,2 cm
- Other Title Information
- Documentary Artifact
- Physical Condition
- Poor
- Language
- English
- French
- Polish
- Russian
- Yiddish
- Notes
- 103 pages, hardcover. Black covers with title in English and Polish on the front, blank on the back. Interior pages consist of 238 photographs of Jews in ghettos and concentration camps with captions in various languages on glossy paper.
- Accession No.
- 2012X.80.01
- Name Access
- MHMC
- Places
- Berlin, Germany, Europe
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
Images
Feist, Ursula - Oral History of a Holocaust Survivor
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn60304
- Collection
- WITNESS TO HISTORY COLLECTION (MHMC-02)
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- moving images
- Physical Description
- 01:41:00
- Collection
- WITNESS TO HISTORY COLLECTION (MHMC-02)
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- moving images
- Physical Description
- 01:41:00
- Language
- English
- Notes
- Ursula Feist (née Erber) was born on June 2, 1921 in Berlin, Germany. Before Hitler, Ursula, her parents and sister, Brigitta, lived in a comfortable economic status. Ursula had a good educational background. Her father was very observant and Ursula discusses how she might have turned out more observant in her life today, had she not been forced by her father to go to synagogue. With the rise of Nazism, Ursula describes living in perpetual fear from 1933 until 1939. Beginning in 1934, the family experienced financial hardship and Ursula went to a commercial college to learn how to type and take short hand. She found employment at an Italian agency from March until November 1938 -- Kristallnacht. Ursula describes Kristallnacht as the most horrible thing: she remembers coming down in the morning and seeing windows smashed and synagogues burning. By the beginning of 1939, many Jews were leaving Germany. Ursula obtained tickets to Shanghai from the Italian agency for her parents and sister. For herself, she made arrangements to go to England to stay with a longtime pen pal. On May 19, 1939, two weeks before her eighteenth birthday she got onto a children's transport to England. Her parents left for Shanghai in June 1939. She remembers the SS coming on the train and emptying out suitcases to find anything of value. In England, Ursula stayed with the Wicker family near Chester in North England. The family treated Ursula like one of their own. She had to adjust to a life where she did not have to worry. Ursula went to Birmingham and trained as a nurse. In May 1940, she was interned at a woman’s camp on the Isle of Man for one year. The British government had no way of knowing who was a Nazi sympathizer so they interned everybody. While in the camp, she met a woman from Munich who was the aunt of her future husband, David. Ursula worked as a waitress in the Cumberland Hotel and David came and asked her if he could take her to the theatre. Later she got a monitoring service job at the BBC. She listened to Hitler's speeches and had to translate and transcribe them. She and David married in 1943. David wanted to join the Commandos when he learnt that his mother was killed but instead he got into the intelligence corps and then the pioneer corps. Their first son, Anthony, was born in London in 1948. By this time, communication with Ursula’s parents had stopped. They had been living under Japanese control in Shanghai and under terrible circumstances. After the war they immigrated to Minneapolis, United States. Her father had angina and died. Later, her mother and sister moved to New York. Life in post-war England was difficult due to very high taxes. In 1951, Ursula and David came to Canada in search of employment. They did not go to the United States because they were afraid that their son would be drafted. Their second son, Daniel was born in Montreal in 1954. Ursula worked in the Neurological Hospital and then the Royal Victoria Hospital as an administrative assistant to the chief of surgery. Her children are both married and she has two grandchildren from each son. Ursula talks about the fact that she is still homesick for London; they visit very often and have very close friends there. She has also been back to Berlin several times.
- Accession No.
- WTH-267
- Name Access
- Feist, Ursula
- Places
- Berlin, Germany, Europe
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
Images
YouTube
Feist, Ursula - Oral History of a Holocaust Survivor
https://www.youtube.com/embed/oAO-Kk5yy_8
Form
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn78387
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- textual record
- Physical Description
- Form : Paper : Printed : Ink : beige, black ; Ht: 30 cm x W: 21,3 cm
- Date
- [ca. 1966-05-23]
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- textual record
- Physical Description
- Form : Paper : Printed : Ink : beige, black ; Ht: 30 cm x W: 21,3 cm
- Other Title Information
- Documentary Artifact
- Date
- [ca. 1966-05-23]
- Physical Condition
- Poor
- Language
- German
- Notes
- 7 two-sided pages. A booklet form regarding compensation for Holocaust victims. The document is blank. Inside, a leaflet, without page number, is inserted to give instructions. Throughout the document, ten sections are identified with roman numerals. Narrative: Deszo Losoncy, also known as Löwy or Losonczy, was born in Szentes, Hungary on 1904-04-12. He was deported to Birkenau, Poland for 14 to 16 months as a political prisoner. In this concentration camp, he was forced to work and clean Dr. Josef Mengele's laboratory. Later, Deszo Losoncy was also detained in Sachsenhausen, Germany, where he was liberated on 1945-04-25 by the Red Army. After the war, he lived in Budapest, Hungary and became a textile professional. He left Hungary soon after the Hungarian Revolution of 1956 and settled in Montreal, Canada in 1957-01 with his wife Sylvia Holcz.
- Accession No.
- 2014.21.01
- Name Access
- Loronci, Susan
- Places
- Berlin, Germany, Europe
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
Images
{{ server.message }}