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- Held by
- Montreal Holocaust Museum via Canadian Jewish Heritage Network (incl. Alex Dworkin Canadian Jewish Archives)
- Dates
- July 25, 1947 (indexed as 1947)
- Level
- item
- Extent
- Letter : paper : beige, gray ; Ht: 21 cm x W: 13,5 cm
- Scope & content
- One page of lined paper. Double-sided. Personal letter from Elzbieta (Elizabeth) to mother Chana (Anna) Zilberbogen (born Wartens). Handwritten with pencil. Tells mother that she likes the place where she lives and go to school. She eats well and does nice activities. She also tells that she had news from her sister Celinka (Cécile). 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 Brens camp and then to Rivesaltes camp in the South of France before being released. Chana was then hospitalized and spent the war hidden in a Sanatorium in Mazamet from 1940 to 1947. Elzbieta and Celinka were hidden in various locations in the South of France, including a farm and different children's homes run by OSE including one in Palavas-les-Flots. Szygmundt was killed in Poland. Chana and her daughters went back to live in Belgium after Liberation until immigrating to Canada in 1951.
- Location
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- Genre / form
- textual record
- Format
- Document
- In the picture
- DocumentHandwrittenLetterTagged automatically by a vision model; may contain mistakes.
- Text in the image
- ma chère mamanÉcole communale(Lot)En attendant de tes nouvellessemaineRue AmadourRead automatically; may contain mistakes.
- Language
- French
- Harvested
- 2026-10-19T03:21:16Z · source datestamp n/a · andornot
Digital objects at the source
- imageOpen original at source ↗2012_15_148.jpg
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