
Where
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- Held by
- Montreal Holocaust Museum via Canadian Jewish Heritage Network (incl. Alex Dworkin Canadian Jewish Archives)
- Dates
- June 25, 1940 (indexed as 1940)
- Level
- item
- Extent
- Note : paper : beige, blue, purple ; Ht: 13,3 cm x W: 21,1 cm
- Scope & content
- One page. Handwritten letter to Chana (Anna) Zilberbogen (born Wartens) . On top left is an ink stamp of town hall of Bagnères-de-Luchon. On bottom is an oval postal ink stamp. 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. 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
- DocumentHandwrittenMunicipal GovernmentNoteSealSignatureStampTravelTagged automatically by a vision model; may contain mistakes.
- Text in the image
- MAIRIE DE BAGNÈRES-DE-LUCHONLaissez passer25 JUIN 1940Madame Chana Odes Zilberbogen et ses deux enfants Elzbieta-Ludwicka et Cecylia de nationalité polonaise sont autorisés à se rendre en Pologne par le poste frontière du Pont du Roi.Read 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_117.jpg