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- Out of the Shtetl: the personal memoirs of the late Edith Webber nee Yidka Najdorf
Out of the Shtetl: the personal memoirs of the late Edith Webber nee Yidka Najdorf
item1897-1918
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- Held by
- Montreal Holocaust Museum via Canadian Jewish Heritage Network (incl. Alex Dworkin Canadian Jewish Archives)
- Creator
- Webber, Edith
- Dates
- 1897-1918 (indexed as 1897–1918)
- Level
- item
- Extent
- Manuscript : paper : printed : ink-jet print : blue (cover), white (pages) ; Ht: 30 cm x W: 24 cm x De: 1,5 cm
- Scope & content
- 99 printed pages, bound in marbled cover with snap closure. Manuscript is divided in 2 parts named Book 1 and 2. Book 1: 1897-1905, 35 pages entitled “Daily life of a Jewish girl in a Polish ghetto. Leaving Poland for England”. Book 2: 1905-1918, 63 pages entitled “Daily life of a Jewish girl in an English town. The First World War”. Narrative: Edith Webber left the shtetl of Tomaszów with her parents to live in England. Because of her husband's heart condition, they moved from London to Leeds at the beginning of World War 2. They had three daughters: Jeannie Berger, Sandra "Sandy" Kaye and Joyce Denning. Out of Edith's family who stayed in Poland, only one person survived (Ithzak Werber). He was deported, jumped out of a train through floor boards, was shot at, but escaped through the forest and got to Palestine during World War 2.
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- Genre / form
- textual record
- In the picture
- DocumentHandwrittenTypewrittenTagged automatically by a vision model; may contain mistakes.
- Text in the image
- ManuscriptBerger LeonUn.Rec.#Acc.#20101801Box8593cjhn.caRead automatically; may contain mistakes.
- Language
- English
- Harvested
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