Internment certificate

Held by

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

Dates

May 16, 1940-May 18, 1940 (indexed as 1940)

Level

item

Extent

Internment certificate : Paper : Typed, Handwritten : Ink : B&W, Purple ; Ht: 10 3/4 in. x W: 8 3/8 in.

Scope & content

1 page, single-sided. Folded once horizontally and once vertically. Document issued May 16, 1940 by the King's Prosecutor in Ieper, Belgium. Document states that Gustave Bauer was interned in Kortrijk according to the legal decisions of October 12, 1918, Article 2, and September 28, 1939, Article 1. Stamp at bottom left corner indicates that Gustave was held in the prison on May 17-18, 1940. Narrative: Document was donated by Eudice Bauer, the wife of Gustave Bauer. Gustave was born in 1924 in Hamburg, Germany, and was on vacation in Denmark with his mother Anna and brother Werner when the Nuremberg Laws of 1935 were passed. They decided not to return to Germany, and went to stay with Anne's sister in Brussels, Belgium. Gustave's father Manfred was arrested for smuggling money out of Germany and spent the next two years in prison. Manfred joined his family in Brussels when he was released from prison in 1937. In 1940, immediately before Germany occupied Belgium, all German males born before 1924 were ordered to register. Manfred and Werner were sent to France, where they were interned. On their way to France to join them, Gustave and his mother were arrested and sent to England on the last boat to leave Belgium before it was occupied. In England, Gustave spent time in Folkestone, Pentonville Prison, Kempton Park, and Douglas, Isle of Man. He was in England from May 19 to July 4, 1940. IOn July 4, 1940 he was sent to Canada on the S.S. Sobiesky with other German nationals as prisoners of war.He was in Camp T, in Trois-Rivières, Quebec, from July 15 to August 12, 1940. He was thenmoved to Camp B, in New Brunswick, and then in 1941 was sent with other Jewish internees to Camp I, Île aux Noix, Quebec. He was sponsored for release in 1942, and his mother joined him in Canada in 1947. His father was deported from Drancy to Majdanek in 1943. It is unknown what happened to Gustave's brother Werner once he was sent to France. Neither man survived the war.

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PARKET te IEPERBEVEL tot INTERNERINGOp bevel van den Minister van Justitie,Gelet op artikel 2 van de Besluit-wet van 12 October 1918 en artikel 1 van de Besluit-wet van 28 September 1939,Ieper, den 16 Mei 1940 vijftig.De Procureur des Konings,GEVANGENIS TE KORTRIJK17 okt. 194018 okt. 1940is geinterneerd in de daartoe bestemde instelling, voorloopig te KORTRIJK.Ieper, den 16 Mei 1940 veertig.De genaamde Bauer Gustav, geboren te Homburg op 18-1-1924, wonende te Schaarbeek Vanoostsstraat 64 is geinterneerd in de daartoe bestemde instelling, voorlopig te KORTRIJK.Read automatically; may contain mistakes.

Language

Dutch

Harvested

2026-10-19T03:21:16Z · source datestamp n/a · andornot

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