Birth certificate

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

Dates

May 21, 1947 (indexed as 1947)

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item

Extent

Birth certificate : Paper : Ink : Beige, Black, Green ; Ht: 8 in. x W: 5,75 in.

Scope & content

1 page, One-sided with a circular ink stamp on the bottom left of the page. Birth certificate for Max Beer. Narrative: Max is the son of Genia and Leo Beer. Genia (Gitla) Paris Eizenberg Beer, was born was born on July 7, 1916 in Radom Poland to Chaim Mordechai and Ruchla Paris. She had two sisters Devora and Freindel and five younger brothers. Both of her parents and all her siblings perished in the Holocaust except for one sister who went to Palestine in the late 1930s. Genia married Israel Einzenberg and had a child when the Holocaust broke out. Both were killed. During the war she was incarcerated in the Szarzysko Kamiena labor camp for three years. After the war she met her second husband, Leo (Leyb) Beer. Leo Beer was born in 1908 in Uhniv (Uhnow in Polish), a small shtetl called near Lviv, Poland (today Ukraine). Leo joined the soviet Army and was wounded in a German attack where he lost the use of his left arm. He was then transferred to Tashkent, Uzbekistan until the end of the conflict. His two brothers and mother were killed in the Holocaust. His father, who had immigrated to Canada in the late 1920s survived. Leo went back to Poland after the war, where he met Genia. In 1946, antisemitic pogroms in Poland led them to flee toward the East through Czechoslovakia. They settled in the Displaced Persons camp of Pocking, in Germany. Max, was born on May 18, 1847 in a UNRRA hospital. The Beer family landed in Canada on January 18, 1949.

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Geburtsurkunde(Standesamt PockingNr. 168 )Max Beerist am 18. Mai 1947 um 10 Uhrin Pocking im UNRRA-Hospital geboren.Vater: Lehrer Leib Beer, jüdisch, wohnhaft inPocking, Lager Waldstetten.Mutter: Genia Beer, geborene Paris, jüdisch,wohnhaft in Pocking, Lager Waldstetten.Änderungen der Eintragung:Pocking, den 21. Mai 1947Der StandesbeamteStandesamt PockingSiegelWalter König, Verlagsanstalt und Buchdruckerei, München 194419. Mai 1947 um 1c UhrLehrer Leib Beer, Judisch, wohnhaft in Pocking, Lager WaldstattGenia Beer geborene Paris, Judisch, wohnhaft in Pocking, Lager WaldstattE1In Vertretung:Read automatically; may contain mistakes.

Language

German

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