Illustrated Jubillee Journal

Held by

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

Dates

1945-1946 (indexed as 1945–1946)

Level

item

Extent

Journal : Paper : Printed : Ink : Beige, Black, Blue ; Ht: 29 cm x W: 21 cm

Scope & content

36 pages, bound with 2 metal staples. All but bottom 5 cm of front cover contains hand-drawn illustration, blue with beige border. At top, Yiddish block text in rectangle on slight diagonal, with '1945' above and '1946' below. Beneath text, large image of a stage with an ornate pillar with a carved figure wearing a crown on each side, connected by an arch topped with more ornamentation, including a nymph-like head and 2 crossed trumpets. Stage curtains are opened, and 'AMCHO' is written in Yiddish text below above stage. Large open book with Yiddish text is superimposed over stage, on diagonal. Beneath illustration, caption reads 'ILLUSTRATED JUBILLEE JOURNAL / Edited by Dramat. Office "AMCHO" of the Jewish Labour Committee of Feldafing' in English. Inside, journal includes a variety of articles and photographs. All in Yiddish except English caption on cover. Document appears to provide a retrospective look at the activities of the theater group over 1945 and 1946. 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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אילוסטרירטער יובל-זשורנאל19451946ILLUSTRATED JUBILLEE JOURNALEdited by Dramat. Office "AMCHO" of the Jewish Labour Committee at FeldafingM. SCHUSTERאידיש טעאטער יובל-זשורנאלRead automatically; may contain mistakes.

Language

Yiddish

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