Identification card
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn76753
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- textual record
- Physical Description
- Identification card : Paper : printed, handwritten : Ink : light green: blue, black ; Ht: 12.2 cm x W: 21.3 cm
- Date
- 1940
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- textual record
- Physical Description
- Identification card : Paper : printed, handwritten : Ink : light green: blue, black ; Ht: 12.2 cm x W: 21.3 cm
- Other Title Information
- Documentary Artifact
- Date
- 1940
- Physical Condition
- Good
- Language
- French
- Notes
- Three panel identification card, double sided. The name on the inside reads Albert-Jean-Joseph Godard born in Dison, Belgium. The center page bears a black & white photo with a signature above. This false identification card was created for Icek Rabinowicz by the Belgian resistance movement. Narrative: Donor is the son of Icek Rabinowicz and Mindla Rabinowicz (born Elgarten). Icek Rabinowicz was born in Ciechanow, Poland in 1919 and immigrated to Belgium with his family at the age of 10 years old. Icek remained in Belgium during the war. He survived by concealing his Jewish Identity and carried false identification papers. He was a member of the Belgian Resistance movement along with his future wife Mindla, whom he had met through a Jewish youth group. They married in Brussels in 1946 and had two children, Daniel and Élise Rabinowicz. The family immigrated to Canada in 1951, settling in Montréal, where Icek found work in his profession as a pursemaker. Mindla later went to University and obtained a degree as a translator
- Accession No.
- 2014.03.03
- Name Access
- Rabinowicz, Daniel
- Places
- Verviers, Belgium
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
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