- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Der Führer zum Erfolg: Maschinenschreiben
- Identification tag
Where
Not on the map yet.
- Held by
- Montreal Holocaust Museum via Canadian Jewish Heritage Network (incl. Alex Dworkin Canadian Jewish Archives)
- Dates
- 1944 (indexed as 1944)
- Level
- item
- Extent
- Identification tag : Ht: 3,7 cm x W: 3,7 cm
- Scope & content
- Square tag with hole at one corner. Meant to be worn around the neck. Narrative: This tag was given to Hershel (Harry) Taichman as a prisoner in Majdanek concentration camp. Because his prisoner number started with the number 18, Harry believed he would survive (Ches-Yud spells the word Chai, which means "Living" or "Life". It is spelled with with the letter Yud which is number 10 and the letter Ches which is number 8, making 18 the number for "life"). Harry was born on April 24, 1922 in Demlin, Poland near the Russian border. His was an orthodox family and Harry with 6 brothers and sisters. His parents were killed in 1939 in an air raid. Harry, his brother and 2 sisters worked and lived in a nearby ghetto. Harry managed to find work in various factories and was briefly in and out of different concentration and labour camps including Ricke, Majdanek and Varta. Harry was liberated in Hasak on January 17, 1945. In 1945, he went to Lublin, then Ryki, where he got married and then to Lodz. He escaped work in the Polish Army and fled to Germany where he stayed until 1947. Shortly after, he immigrated to Canada with his wife and settled in Montreal.
- Location
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- Genre / form
- object
- Format
- Object / artifact
- In the picture
- Close-upJewish CommunityStill LifeTagged automatically by a vision model; may contain mistakes.
- Text in the image
- 1891Read automatically; may contain mistakes.
- Harvested
- 2026-10-19T03:21:16Z · source datestamp n/a · andornot
Digital objects at the source
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