Celinka (Cecile), Elzbieta (Elizabeth) and Chana Zilberbogen

Held by

Montreal Holocaust Museum via Canadian Jewish Heritage Network (incl. Alex Dworkin Canadian Jewish Archives)

Dates

[ca. 1942] (indexed as 1942)

Level

item

Extent

Photograph : paper : b&w ; Ht: 8,7 cm x W: 6,1 cm

Scope & content

White border with deckled edges. Outdoor scene. From left to right, Celinka (Cecile), Chana and Elzbieta (Elizabeth) Zilberbogen sitting on a bench with winter clothes. Chana is wearing a fur coat and the two girls a wool coat. The three of them a wearing tights. 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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BenchCoatDoorFur CoatGirlGroup PortraitJewish CommunityPortraitRailingWindowWinterWinter CoatWomanTagged automatically by a vision model; may contain mistakes.

Text in the image

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Language

French

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2026-10-19T03:21:16Z · source datestamp n/a · andornot

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