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- Held by
- Montreal Holocaust Museum via Canadian Jewish Heritage Network (incl. Alex Dworkin Canadian Jewish Archives)
- Dates
- June 11, 1946 (indexed as 1946)
- Level
- item
- Extent
- Letter : Paper : Ink : Black, White, Blue ; Ht: 11 cm x W: 13,5 cm
- Scope & content
- Envelope has 2 postage stamps, one in the upper right corner with an airplane on it, and one in the bottom left. There is also 1 circular ink stamp in the top center of the envelope. The letter is 1 page, double-sided. Narrative: Bertram Ellison (donor's uncle) was born on March 19 1909 in Montreal. He was born into a Jewish family, and was an insurance broker before the war. He joined the Canadian Army on June 5th 1941 as a 2nd Lieutenant. Between 1941 and 1945 he rose to the rank of major, and received 6 medals, including the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire which he received on December 18t 1945. He was part of the 21st Army Group, which was formed on July 9th 1943 by the 2nd British and 1st Canadian Army for a North Western European Invasion. While apart of the 21st Army Group, he saw Bergen-Belsen. Bertram Ellison sailed home on the RMS Queen Elisabeth on December 3rd – 9th 1945.
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- Genre / form
- textual record
- In the picture
- DocumentHandwrittenLetterLetterheadMilitaryTagged automatically by a vision model; may contain mistakes.
- Text in the image
- Sat Aft.3 PMHello My Darling!-I see you are withering under the heat. Never mind Darling soon you'll have someone to talk to when you have to stay awake at night.Believe me Darling it is still raining here and still not too warm. We haven't had heat on every day.Thanks a million for the draft. It will see me through just fine darling.Read automatically; may contain mistakes.
- Language
- English
- Harvested
- 2026-10-19T03:21:16Z · source datestamp n/a · andornot
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