Notification Card

Held by

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

Dates

1938 (indexed as 1938)

Level

item

Extent

Notification Card : cardstock : Printed : Ink : Bege, black ; Ht: 14 cm x W: 9 cm

Scope & content

Distributed card with printed message to refugees. Handwritten inscription in the top left corner and circular stamp in black ink in the middle with the letter “R” (for refugee?). Document distributed to newly arrived refugees in Great-Britain. Liselotte Goldberger (Charlotte Urban) received it when she arrived in England from Vienna. Narrative: Charlotte Urban, originally called Liselotte Goldberger, was born in 1919 in Vienna, Austria. Her parents were Yaakob and Franzi Goldberger. She lived with her family in an apartment on Staudinger Gasse in Brigittenau, which was a mostly-Jewish area. She considered herself more Viennese, and her first language was German. In a statement she says she remembers when the Germans invaded Austria during the Anschluss. One day, she and her mother were ordered out of their building by the SA and forced to scrub the pavement in front of a crowd. Afterwards the commander wrote them a receipt for their work on a piece of cigarette paper. Charlotte kept it until her death. Her father had made it to England, and was working to get her and her mother visa. He was away during the Kristallnacht. They remained safe because their land lady, Frau Grabner, had a son in the Nazi party and would use that to discourage troops from coming into their room. When Charlotte got her papers her mother decided to stay with her family. They parted at the station, and Charlotte never saw her again. Liselotte later discovered that her mother had been deported to Theresienstadt in October 1942. Charlotte changed her name to Charlotte Goldhill and married Joseph Urban in 1951. She became a Canadian citizen in 1959.

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Genre / form

textual record

Format

Document

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DocumentGovernmentImmigrationLegal DocumentNoticePostcardPrintedTagged automatically by a vision model; may contain mistakes.

Text in the image

ACHTUNG.Deutschen Fluechtlingen wird dringendst geraten, aeusserst vorsichtig in ihren Gespraechen zu sein.In Ihrem eigenen Interesse empfehlen wir Ihnen dringend, keine Arbeitsangebote irgendwelcher Art anzunehmen, ohne vorher die Erlaubnis der englischen Regierung eingeholt zu haben.cjhn.caRead automatically; may contain mistakes.

Language

German

Harvested

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

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