Identification Card

Held by

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

Dates

September 04, 1953 (indexed as 1953)

Level

item

Extent

Identification Card : paper : Printed, stamped : ink : Yellow, purple, blue ; Ht: 19 cm x W: 7 cm

Scope & content

Form with purple stamp from boat on top, blue stamp from Quebec immigration services on the lower section. Name of immigrant is machine typed and signature is handwritten. Canadian immigration identification card. Card identified new immigrants from the moment they left their original place of residence to their arrival in Canada. Charlotte Goldhill became a “landed” immigrant on September 4, 1953. She came on the boat “Sydney” from Lauro Lines from Liverpool to Québec. 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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DocumentGovernmentHandwrittenIdentity CardImmigrationPrintedSealShipSignatureStampTypewrittenTagged automatically by a vision model; may contain mistakes.

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Imm. 1000 (Rev. 1.4.53)T.V "Sydney" 260Lauro LinesL'pool-Quebec4 Sept 1953CANADIAN IMMIGRATIONIDENTIFICATION CARDCANADA IMMIGRATIONSEP 4 1953QUEBECFRANÇAIS AU VERSO(To be shown to Examining Officer at port of arrival)Name in fullGOLDHILLCharlotteSTATUSSignature of PassengerPort StampFOLD HEREDULY STAMPED BY AN IMMIGRATION OFFICER, THIS CARD IS EVIDENCE OF YOUR STATUS IN CANADA. IT IS REQUIRED FOR CUSTOMS CLEAR-ANCE AND WILL ALSO PROVE USEFUL FOR OTHER PURPOSES.RETAIN IT CAREFULLYRead automatically; may contain mistakes.

Language

English

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