Train scene with Elzbieta (Elizabeth) Zilberbogen

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Held by: Montreal Holocaust Museum via Canadian Jewish Heritage Network (incl. Alex Dworkin Canadian Jewish Archives)
Dates: [Later than 1945] (indexed as 1945)
Level: item
Scope & content: White border, outdoor scene. Group portrait of fifteen tennagers standing in and in front of a train including Elzbieta (Elizabeth) Zilberbogen on the top right of image. Narrative: The Zilberbogen were a Jewish family originally from Warsaw (Poland). Mother Chana and daughters Elzbieta (born 1933) and Celinka (born 1937) moved to Belgium in 1939. The father, Szygmundt, an engineer, stayed in Poland. During the Second World War, the mother and daughters were first sent to a transit camp in the South of France before being released. Chana was then hospitalized and spent the war hidden in a Sanatorium in Mazamet. Elzbieta and Celinka were hidden in various locations in the South of France, including a farm and different children's homes run by OSE. Szygmundt was killed in Poland. Chana and her daughters went back to live in Belgium after Liberation until immigrating to Canada in 1951.
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Extent: Photograph : paper : b&w ; Ht: 12,5 cm x W: 17,2 cm
Genre / form: graphic material
Format: Photograph
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Language: French
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