Handbill

Held by

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

Dates

January 28, 1954-January 31, 1954 (indexed as 1954)

Level

item

Extent

Handbill : Paper : Printed : Ink : Yellow, Black ; Ht: 22,5 cm x W: 15 cm

Scope & content

1 page, single-sided. Folded once horizontally. Document is a handbill advertising a play to be performed at the Jewish Library, starring Rachel Relis. Myer Abramowitch listed as a feature player. English text on top half, Yiddish text on bottom. Narrative: Bella (Beila, Bela) Herling and Mayer (Majer, Meyer, Meir, Myer) Abramovitch (Abramovitz, Abramowicz, Abramowitz, Abramowitch) 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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GOOD NEWS FOR THE JEWISH THEATRE AUDIENCEFOR THE FIRST TIME IN MONTREALThe outstanding artist and folks singer who has appeared on Radio & Television in Paris & New YorkRACHEL RELISWHO WILL STAR IN THE PLAY"A ROOM TO LET"with the feature players LEIB APTER, MYER ABRAMOWITCH, LILI SCHWARTZ, ZYSZY LIPSMAN — BEDI TREPMAN at the pianoOn Saturday and Sunday, Jan. 30 & 31 1954 - 8.30 p.m.IN THE AUDITORIUM OF THE JEWISH LIBRARY120 MOUNT ROYAL WESTBERNARD HALPERN, Managing DirectorTickets on Sale from Jan. 28th at the Library from 6 - 9 p.m.For information call: CR. 8157 after 6 p.m.with the feature players LEIB APTER, MYER ABRAMOWICH, LILI SCHWARTZ, ZYSZY LIPSMAN — BEBI TREPMAN at the pianoרחל רעליסRead automatically; may contain mistakes.

Language

English

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

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