- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Der Führer zum Erfolg: Maschinenschreiben
- American Joint Distribution Committee activities: A welfare worker interviews a couple
American Joint Distribution Committee activities: A welfare worker interviews a couple
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- Held by
- Montreal Holocaust Museum via Canadian Jewish Heritage Network (incl. Alex Dworkin Canadian Jewish Archives)
- Creator
- Markowitz-Benjamin, Sylvia
- Dates
- 1947 (indexed as 1947)
- Level
- item
- Extent
- Drawing : paper : Print : Ink : Black, white ; Ht: 30 cm x W: 20,5 cm
- Scope & content
- Print of a drawing by Sylvia Markowitz, depicts a woman in military dress at a desk interviewing two elderly Jewish people. Map of Palestine and Jerusalem on the wall. Silhouette of another man waiting in the background. Narrative: Sylvia Benjamin (then Markowitz) started working as overseas staff for the American Joint Distribution Committee in Dec 1945. Her first assignment was at the Bergen-Belsen Displaced Persons camp near Hamburg. She was charged with interviewing for and distributing visas to Sweden, helping Jews locate surviving family, and for arranging medical care. After 6 months she was transferred to Hamburg where she helped re-establish a Jewish community. Her focus was on rebuilding a sense of community and spirit above mere survival requirements.
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- Genre / form
- graphic material
- In the picture
- BookshelfCharityCoupleDeskDrawingFiling CabinetJewish CommunityManMapOfficePrintTelephoneWomanTagged automatically by a vision model; may contain mistakes.
- Text in the image
- PALESTINARead automatically; may contain mistakes.
- Harvested
- 2026-10-19T03:21:16Z · source datestamp n/a · andornot
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