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- Held by
- Montreal Holocaust Museum via Canadian Jewish Heritage Network (incl. Alex Dworkin Canadian Jewish Archives)
- Dates
- March 19, 1945 (indexed as 1945)
- Level
- item
- Extent
- Receipt : Paper : Printed, Typed : Ink : Beige, Black ; Ht: 11 1/2 in. x W: 8 in.
- Scope & content
- One page, single-sided. Folded once horizontally and once vertically. Document dated March 19, 1945, issued by the Vice-Consul of France in Geneva, Switzerland. It states that Chaim and Ruchla Karasin have made a request to return to Graulhet, France, to the St. Pierre neighborhood where they used to live. Narrative: Chaim and Ruchla Karasin were the parents of the donor, Beatrice Barzilai (Karasin). Both were born in Warsaw, Poland. Chaim emigrated to Belgium in 1927, and Ruchla moved to the Netherlands with her family sometime in the 1930s. The details of how they met is unknown, but they married in 1942 in France, where Beatrice had been born a year prior. From 1943, the family survived the war in Switzerland, where Chaim was granted official refugee status.
- Location
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- Genre / form
- textual record
- Format
- Document
- In the picture
- CertificateDocumentGovernmentImmigrationLetterheadSignatureStampTypewrittenTagged automatically by a vision model; may contain mistakes.
- Text in the image
- CONSULAT GENERAL DE FRANCEA GENÈVEATTESTATIONPour le Consul Général de FranceLe Vice-ConsulLe Consul Général de France à Genève certifie que M. et Mme KARASIN, Chaïm et Ruchla, de nationalité russe, né à Var-sovie le 3 décembre 1913, domiciliés 19, rue Plantamour à Genève, ont déposé le 17 mars une demande en vue de regagner GRAULHET (Tarn), où ils résidaient quartier St. Pierre, en foi de quoi la présente attestation a été délivrée pour servir et valoir ce que de droit.Genève, le 19 mars 1946.Read automatically; may contain mistakes.
- Language
- French
- Harvested
- 2026-10-19T03:21:16Z · source datestamp n/a · andornot
Digital objects at the source
- imageOpen original at source ↗1996_27_25.jpg