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Identification card
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Identification card

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Montreal Holocaust Museum via Canadian Jewish Heritage Network (incl. Alex Dworkin Canadian Jewish Archives)
Dates
May 02, 1949 (indexed as 1949)
Level
item
Scope & content
1 page, double-sided. Document is a tourist class immigration identification card for Mayer Abramowicz. Name of ship M/V "Sobieski" stamped on it. On left side of card is space for Medical Examination Stamp, left blank. Ink stamp on right sde of card in space for Civil Examination Stamp. On verso, instructions are printed in 12 languages 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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Identification card : Cardboard : Printed, Typed, Stamped : Ink : Beige, Black, Blue ; Ht: 7,5 cm x W: 13 cm
Genre / form
textual record
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Document
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"TOURIST CLASS"Imm. 183.IMMIGRATION IDENTIFICATION CARDTHIS CARD MUST BE SHOWN TO THE EXAMINING OFFICER AT PORT OF ARRIVALName of passengerABRAMOWICZ MAYERName of shipM/V "SOBIESKI"Name appears on Return, sheetlineMedical Examination StampCivil Examination StampLANDED IMMIGRANTCANADA IMMIGRATIONMAY 2 1950HALIFAX, N.S.(See back)MAY 2 1949111Read automatically; may contain mistakes.
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