Calendar

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Held by: Montreal Holocaust Museum via Canadian Jewish Heritage Network (incl. Alex Dworkin Canadian Jewish Archives)
Dates: 1943 (indexed as 1943)
Level: item
Scope & content: Tear off calendar held by staples on top. Calendar for the year 1943; it was kept by Paula Deutz (nee Vogt). In it Paul kept the dates relative to her husband's internment. Along with other non-Jewish wives of Jewish German men, Paula had formed a support group. In the calendar also figure 12 dates on which the wives received notification from the camps that their husbands had died. Narrative: Willie Deutz, a German Jew from Frankfurt was married in 1929 to a German gentile woman named Paula. They had met as Paula worked as a servant for Willie’s parents. Willie was arrested in 1943 and sent to a prison in Darmstadt (Germany). Willie was killed on August 25, 1943 in Auschwitz-Birkenau (Poland). Paula received a death notice from the camp commandant, pretending her husband had succumbed to an infection and she could retrieve his ashes if she desired to do so.
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Extent: Calendar : paper : ink : beige, black, red ; Ht: 3,25 in. x W: 4 in.
Genre / form: textual record
Format: Document
Text in the image: APRIL 1943SonntagMontagDienstagMittwoch1. Brief von WillyDonnerstagFreitagSamstag45678910Read automatically; may contain mistakes.
Language: German
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