Letter
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- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- textual record
- Physical Description
- Letter : Paper : Printed, Typed : Ink : Beige, Black, Purple ; Ht: 10 3/4 in. x W: 8 3/8 in.
- Date
- May 11, 1948
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- textual record
- Physical Description
- Letter : Paper : Printed, Typed : Ink : Beige, Black, Purple ; Ht: 10 3/4 in. x W: 8 3/8 in.
- Other Title Information
- Documentary Artifact
- Date
- May 11, 1948
- Physical Condition
- Good
- Language
- English
- Notes
- 1 page, single-sided. Folded once horizontally. Paper printed with letterhead of the Judische Gemeinde (Communal Association of Central European Jews) in Shanghai. Document is a letter which certifies that Salomon and Sara Heiss, with their daughter Erika, have lived in Shanghai since January 1939 as political refugees from Austria. The letter also states that the family has a good reputation. Narrative: Salomon and Sara Heiss were the parents of the donor, Erika Bloom. The Heiss family fled Nazi-occupied Vienna in 1938, after Salomon was arrested and detained in Dachau for 3 days. They survived the war in Shanghai, immigrated to Israel in 1949, and eventually settled in Montreal.
- Accession No.
- 2002.25.06
- Name Access
- Bloom, Erika
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
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