Temporary residence permit

Held by

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

Dates

February 04, 1949 (indexed as 1949)

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item

Extent

Temporary residence permit : Paper : Printed, Handwritten, Stamped : Ink : Beige, Black, Purple, Blue, Red ; Ht: 19 cm x W: 13 cm

Scope & content

1 page, double-sided. B&W square photograph of permit holder affixed at top left corner with 2 metal grommets. Two fiscal stamps affixed at centre left, with respective values of 15 and 100 francs. Document is a receipt for a requested identity card which also serves as a temporary identity card for 3 months after the date of its issue. Issued to Mayer Abramowicz. 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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RÉPUBLIQUE FRANÇAISERÉCÉPISSÉDE DEMANDE DE CARTE D'IDENTITÉou de renouvellement de la carte N°5me BureauProfession:Timbre de la Mairie ou du CommissariatDOMICILE INTERDITDans les Départements du Haut-Rhin, du Bas-Rhin, de la Moselle et des Alpes-MaritimesDans les Départements du Haut-Rhin, du Bas-Rhin, dans Marseille et des Alpes-Maritimes76E61640076CachetDélivré à M. (1) ABRAMOWICZ Mayerné le 10-11-1914 à Wilnode nationalité Ref. d'or. Polonaiserésidant à Paris 11eLe présent récépissé, tenant lieu de permis de séjour, sera valablejusqu'auA Paris, leTout étranger changeant de domicile sans esprit de retour (ou quittant la France dans les mêmes conditions) devra avant son départ, faire viser son récépissé au commissariat de police (ou, à son défaut, par le Maire).Dans les 48 heures de son arrivée au lieu de son nouveau domicile (ou de son retour éventuel en France, l'étranger devra également faire viser son récépissé au commissariat de police (ou, à défaut, par le Maire).L'étranger qui négligera de se conformer à ces prescriptions sera passible des peines prévues par l'article 475, 15, du Code pénal.(Il Nom et prénoms. Pour les femmes mariées, mentionner le nom de jeune fille après celui du mari.Ce récépissé ne saurait, en aucun cas, tenir lieu de pièce d'identitéRead automatically; may contain mistakes.

Language

French

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