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Where
- Held by
- Montreal Holocaust Museum via Canadian Jewish Heritage Network (incl. Alex Dworkin Canadian Jewish Archives)
- Dates
- 1957 (indexed as 1957)
- Level
- item
- Extent
- Testimony : Paper : Typewritten : Ink : Beige, black, blue ; Ht: 27,8 cm x W: 21 cm
- Scope & content
- Page creased once horizontally, on first page top half is typed, second half and back page handwritten, entitled Eidesstattliche. Five pages total, remainder handwritten. Document was written by Susan Hardy, an acquaintance of Dr. Alexander Friedlieb, and recounts his whereabouts, death, and the story of Ruth Dressler during the war. She starts by attesting that Ruth Dressler had to wear the Jewish star from September 1941 to April 1945. Narrative: Dr. Alexander Friedlieb was born in 1895/1/10 in Bratislava, Slovenia. He received his medical certificate for dentistry in July 1921. Later, he became a Sergeant (višji vodnik) in the Slovenian army from around 1925-1935. He was married to Hilda Friedlieb, who was born 1907/9/2 in Sankt Pölten, Austria, to Grielor (?) and Gigela (?) Kreidl. They moved to Skalici, Slovakia, starting 1942/9/2. They were both captured and sent to separate concentration camps. Hilda died in the Auschwitz gas chamber in 1944, age 37. Alexander was sent to an unknown concentration camp where he worked physical labor and part-time in the hospital. He died on a train en route to Bergen-Belsen from illness shortly before 1945/2/20. Their daughter, Ruth E. (Friedlieb) Dressler, was born 1932/5/22 in Czechoslovakia. She was recognized as the first war orphan of World War 2 to be admitted to Canada. She was adopted by Mr. and Mrs. Eugene Hecht. As a child she wrote to a German pen pal in Australia. She graduated McGill University with a teaching degree and became a high school teacher in Montreal. She was married to Cary Dressler, in 1957, with a son, Kenneth, born in 1961. She died at age 30 in Newark, N.J. (USA), from Hodgkin’s disease. Death occurred in the Presbyterian hospital on 1963/4/20.
- Location
- McGill University · landmark · confidence 60% · landmark:geonames · found as “mcgill university”
- Genre / form
- textual record
- Language
- German
- Harvested
- 2026-10-19T03:21:16Z · source datestamp n/a · andornot
Digital objects at the source
- imageOpen original at source ↗2010_13_01.jpg