Notebook

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Held by: Montreal Holocaust Museum via Canadian Jewish Heritage Network (incl. Alex Dworkin Canadian Jewish Archives)
Dates: October 15, 1941-January 12, 1942 (indexed as 1941–1942)
Level: item
Scope & content: 52 pages. softcover, paper bound with staples. Front cover has a color drawing of a man in a red jacket with a dogsled team watching an airplane fly near a mountain. Handwritten title in blue ink (see inscriptions). Back cover is beige with blue text describing how to make an airplane kite, complete with diagram. Interior pages are beige, with printed horizontal blue lines and vertical red border lines; consisting of handwritten exercises in blue and black ink, with corrections made in red pencil. Narrative: Used in internment camp in Quebec. Mr. Herbert Isaak used this French exercise book to practise writing French as he studied for the Quebc High School Diploma. Herbert left Germany at the end of July 1939 and entered England with a trainee permit. He registered with the Jewish Refuge committee and a tribunal ruled that he was a refugee from Nazi oppression. On July 13th 1940, Herbert entered Canada, and was placed in Camp N, in Sherbrooke, Quebec.
In the picture: Airplane Aviation Book Book Cover Dog Drawing Fur Coat Illustration Man Mountain Sled Snow WinterTagged automatically by a vision model; may contain mistakes.
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Extent: Notebook : bound, handwritten, graphic arts : red, brown, blue, white, black, beige ; Ht: 24 cm x W: 17,9 cm
Genre / form: textual record
Format: Document
Text in the image: TCACF-TCAJ. Herbert StadtmillerFRENCHNo 1cjhn.caMONARCH SERIESIN THE NORTHLANDCTCAJ. Herbert PearsonRead automatically; may contain mistakes.
Language: English
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