Immigration Certificate

Held by

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

Dates

November 26, 1940 (indexed as 1940)

Level

item

Extent

Immigration Certificate : Paper : Printed : Ink : Beige, black, purple ; Ht: 14,8 cm x W: 20,2 cm

Scope & content

Page creased horizontally and vertically, top and left edge serrated, gridded into sections of information, including birth date, parents name, and nationality. Card information listed on back. Registration for aliens was issued for Hilda Friedliebovà and was used as a personal identification document in Slovakia. 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”

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Genre / form

textual record

Format

Document

In the picture

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Text in the image

REPUBLIKA SLOVENSKA.EVIDENCIA CUDZINCOV.BOhlasovací lístok podľa § 7 zák. č. 52/1935 a § 8 vlád. nar. č. 143/1935 Sb. z. a n.Potvrdenie pôvodného hlásenia.Hlásil pobytdo obce pobytuÚčel pobytu na SlovenskuČís. skl. 138Meno a priezvisko cudzincaDôvod, pre ktorý nie je povinný žiadať za povolenie pobytu (§ 6. zák. alebo iná povolená úľava)Žiadosť podanáDeň, mesiac a rok narodeniaTerajšie miesto pobytu (obec, ulica, čp., okres, zem)Miesto a zem (štát) narodeniaŠtátna príslušnosťDeti do 14 rokov, žijúce s hlavou domácnosti, ktorý toto hlásenie podáva. (Meno a rok narodenia)Rodinný stav*)Meno druhého manžela a dáta jeho narodeniaPodpis ohlasujúceho:Meno a priezviskootcamatkyPovolanie*)Deň príchodu1930podpis príjemcu hlásenia.Vyplní ohlasujúci. Po potvrdení bude mu vrátená.štátna kniháčiareň v Bratislave633-40Read automatically; may contain mistakes.

Harvested

2026-10-19T03:21:16Z · source datestamp n/a · andornot

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