Telegram
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- Held by
- Montreal Holocaust Museum via Canadian Jewish Heritage Network (incl. Alex Dworkin Canadian Jewish Archives)
- Dates
- December 21, 1949 (indexed as 1949)
- Level
- item
- Scope & content
- 1 page, single-sided. Folded once horizontally and once vertically. Printed on letterhead of Canadian National Telegraphs, logo inside oversized 'C' is a maple leaf with a rectangular sign in centre reading 'Canadian National'. Three small beige maple leafs on right side of logo. Top quarter of page is maroon with beige letters and details, the rest of the page is beige. Text from telegraph is blue, printed on lighter beige strips of paper. Document is a telegram to Bella Herling from Helen and Jack, congratulating her on her wedding and expressing regret that they cannot attend. Narrative: Bella (Beila, Bela) Herling and Mayer (Majer, Meyer, Meir) Abramovitch (Abramovitz, Abramowicz, Abramowitz) were the parents of the donor, Toby Herscovitch. Bella was born in Suchedniów, Poland on September 25, 1925, the youngest of a family of ten children. Her parents and five siblings were murdered in the Holocaust. Bella and three of her sisters survived the war working as slave labourers in an ammunitions factory in Skarzysko-Kamienna. They were liberated by Russian troops on January 16, 1945, and made their way to the Feldafing Displaced Persons Camp, where they reunited with a brother who had survived Auschwitz. Bella volunteered for nursing training by a Jewish refugee agency, and worked as a nurse in the camp from 1946 to 1948. In 1948, she joined her sister Paula in Toronto, where she worked as a nurse's aide and married Mayer, a fellow survivor who she had known from Feldafing. Born November 10, 1914 in Vilna (Vilnius), he was the sole survivor of a family of six children. He lived in the Vilna ghetto and worked in a factory making window panes for German barracks; he was later sent to a labour camp in Tallin, Estonia, and then to Stutthof concentration camp. In the final days of the war, he escaped from a subsequent transfer to Dachau concentration camp and was liberated. He spent three months sick in a hospital and ended up in Feldafing, where he was active in the "Amchu" or "AMCHO" theater group, part of the Jewish Labour Committee. He lived for a year in France, and immigrated to Canada in May, 1949. Bella and Mayer moved to Montreal in 1950 and opened a fabric store. Mayer passed away in 2001, and Bella in 2014.
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- DocumentLetterheadLogoTelegramTelegraphTypewrittenWeddingTagged automatically by a vision model; may contain mistakes.
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- Extent
- Telegram : Paper : Printed, Typed : Ink : Beige, White, Red, Blue, Green ; Ht: 16,5 cm x W: 20 cm
- Genre / form
- textual record
- Format
- Document
- Text in the image
- EXCLUSIVE CONNECTION WITH WESTERN UNION CABLE SERVICEFORM 6122CANADIAN NATIONALW M ARMSTRONG GENERAL MANAGERTORONTOTELEGRAPHSSTANDARD TIME1949 DEC 21 PM 8 41NBA137 26 NL=D=NORTHBAY ONT 21325 HURON ST DELR 25TH 2 PM TOR=HEARTIEST CONGRATULATIONS ON THIS JOYOUS AND HAPPY DAYMAY YOUR NEW JOINT LIFE BRING YOU YEARS OF HAPPINESSAND SUCCESS REGRET WE CANNOT BE WITH YOU=HELEN AND JACK.FORM 6129Read automatically; may contain mistakes.
- Language
- English
- Harvested
- 2026-10-19T03:21:16Z · source datestamp n/a · andornot
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