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Letter
Montreal Holocaust Museum · small copy hosted here (www.cjhn.ca blocks its images elsewhere)

Letter

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Montreal Holocaust Museum via Canadian Jewish Heritage Network (incl. Alex Dworkin Canadian Jewish Archives)
Dates
January 11, 1942 (indexed as 1942)
Level
item
Scope & content
One page of graph paper. Two personal letters. One from daughter Elzbieta (Elizabeth) (?) and one from M. Aizenberg of the Sanatorium-Marin of Palavas-les-Flots to mother Chana (Anna) Zilberbogen (born Wartens). Handwritten in blue and black ink. M.Aizenberg tells that Chana’s daughters are going well. Elzbieta asks her mother when she will come to visit and enumerates what she eats at the Children’s home. 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.
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Letter : paper : beige, black, blue ; Ht: 22 cm x W: 17,1 cm
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dimanche 14 janvier 1942cher mamanChère MadameM. Aizenbergdimanche 11 janvier 1942Comme vous le voyez vos enfants vont trèsbien, elles vous attendent avec impatienceet espère vous voir bientôt. Et nous vousMes meilleures sympathies à vousRead automatically; may contain mistakes.
Language
French
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