Identification card

Held by

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

Dates

August 27, 1941 (indexed as 1941)

Level

item

Extent

Identification card : Paper : Black, White, Red ; Ht: 4 in. x W: 3 in.

Scope & content

Two sided, with two vertical folds. The front has a photograph of David Kropveld, as well as three stamps, one is a circular stamp with the Coat of arms of the republic of the United Netherlands in the middle. The back has two finger prints, as well as one circular stamp with the Coat of Arms of the Republic of the United Netherlands in the middle. Narrative: Identification Card used by David Kropveld while in Holland. David Kropveld was born on January 3, 1918, in Amsterdam, Holland. In July 1940, David and his father joined the White Brigade resistence group in the south of France. As members of the White Brigade, David and his father gave up their Jewish identities. In October 1942, David was arrested while smuggling war-related information between occupied and Vichy France. He was tortured for ten days before being released. He was reunited with his father in Brussels, but the two were arrested by Gestapo officers one week later. They were incarcerated for three months and deported to Auschwitz concentration camp (Poland). Father and son wore the badges of political prisoners and were selected for the slave labour camp of Monowitz, where they stayed for about five days prior to being transferred to camp of Treblinka (Poland). In Treblinka, David witnessed his father’s murder at the hands of a guard. In the fall of 1944, a guard recognized David as a boxer he had admired and had him transferred back to Auschwitz and Monowitz in December 1944 to compete boxing matches against other prisoners. In December 1944, David managed to escape the death march with a few other prisoners. He was rescued shortly after and brought to a hospital until his health improved. No members of his family survived the war.

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Genre / form

textual record

In the picture

DocumentGovernmentHandwrittenIdentity CardMilitaryMilitary OrderPortraitPrintedSealSignatureStampTagged automatically by a vision model; may contain mistakes.

Text in the image

PERSOONSBEWIJSGEMEENTEAMSTERDAMMISBRUIK WORDT GESTRAFTMISDRIJF WORDT GESTRAFTGeldig gedurende vijf jarenRead automatically; may contain mistakes.

Language

Dutch

Harvested

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

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