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- Held by
- Montreal Holocaust Museum via Canadian Jewish Heritage Network (incl. Alex Dworkin Canadian Jewish Archives)
- Dates
- August 7, 1942 (indexed as 1942)
- Level
- item
- Extent
- Certificate : Paper : Printed, Typed ; Ht: 5 1/2 in. x W: 8 1/8 in.
- Scope & content
- 1 page, single-sided. Folded once horizontally and once vertically. Document issued by the Toulouse Regional Anti-Cancer Centre (trad.), attesting that Mrs. Chana Berkowicz was hospitalized at the Centre from July 10 to August 7, 1942. Narrative: Chana (Chane, Annie) (Trompeter) Berkowicz was the mother of the donor, Jack (Jacques) Berkowicz. Born in Mielec, Poland, was living in Vienna, Austria with her parents and two sisters. In 1938, after the German annexation of Austria, the family fled, driving to France via Belgium. Tuwja (Tuwyas, Tuwia, Tuvia, Tobias) Bercowicz (Berkowicz) was the donor's father. Born in Vilna, Tuwyas immigrated to Belgium in 1933 and when Belgium fell to Nazi Germany in 1940, he fled to France, hoping to reach Morocco by boat from Marseilles. Tuwyas and Chana met in Lyon, France in 1941 and married. Their daughter Dorothée was born in 1942. The family attempted to flee France by boat in Marseilles, but were stopped by Vichy police. They fled Marseilles and went south, into the Pyrenees region, living in various small vilages. Their son Jack was born in Bernac-Dessus in 1944. The family survived the war and returned to Brussels from 1945-1948, and then immigrated to Canada with the help of the American Joint Distribution Committee. They were sponsored by Tuwyas' sister Luba, who was already living in Halifax. The Berkowicz family settled in Montreal.
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- Genre / form
- textual record
- Format
- Document
- In the picture
- CertificateClinicDocumentHandwrittenHospitalMedicineSealSignatureStampTypewrittenTagged automatically by a vision model; may contain mistakes.
- Text in the image
- CENTRE REGIONAL ANTI-CANCEREUX de TOULOUSE(Hospice de la Grave)CERTIFICAT.L'ADMINISTRATEUR du Centre Régional Anti-Cancéreux de TOULOUSE, soussigné, certifie que Madame TROMPETER, Chana, épouse BERKOWICZ, à Bernac Dessus a été hospitalisé dans l'établissement ci-dessus désignédu 10 Juillet 1942 au 7 Août 1942.TOULOUSE le 7.8.42Read 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 ↗2005_1_20.jpg