Identification card

Held by

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

Dates

1940 (indexed as 1940)

Level

item

Extent

Identification card : Paper : printed, handwritten : Ink : light green, blue, black ; Ht: 12.2 cm x W: 21.3 cm

Scope & content

Three panel identification card, double sided. The center page displays a black & white photo with a signature above. Details are inscribed in blue handwriting attesting to the identification of Yvonne-Augusta-Alphonse Pesser. This false identification card was created for Mindla Elgarten by the Belgian resistance movement. Narrative: Donor is the son of Icek Rabinowicz and Mindla Rabinowicz (born Elgarten). Mindla was born in Warsaw, Poland in 1923 and immigrated to Brussels with her family in 1926. Icek was born in 1919 in Ciechanow, Poland and immigrated to Belgium with his family at the age of 10. The two met through a Jewish youth group. They survived the war in Belgium by concealing their Jewish Identity and carrying false identification papers. They were also both members of the Belgian Resistance movement where they distributed false identification papers to other Jews in Belgium. They married in Brussels in 1946 and had two children, Daniel and Élise Rabinowicz. They immigrated to Canada in 1951, settling in Montréal, where Icek found work in his profession as a pursemaker. Mindla later went to University and obtained a degree as a translator. Mindla had two younger siblings and only her brother survived by hiding at a clergy house. Her sister was arrested by Germans and sent to a concentration camp where she was presumably killed.

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textual record

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Caisse de retraite. Loi 10-12-24 No compte:No 0392481²Nom ResserPrénoms Yvonne-Augusta-AlphonseEtat Civil ép.te de Godard AlbertNationalité BELGEnée Grand'Rechainle 22 juin 1919Profession ménagèreInscrit vol. 39 fol. 248Rue des Foshalles N° 42le 6 novembre 1931Observation: Quiconque modifie le texte de laSignature du porteurResser YvonneTaille 1 mètre centle 7 septembre 1940L'officier de l'Etat Civil (ou son délégué):présente carte, ou remplace la photographie y apposéeVERVIERSDemeures successivesVol. Fol.DateN° DateRUENo 039248Nom PesserEtat Civil 4e de Godard AlbertProfession employéeInscrit col. 39 fol. 248Rue des Foxhalles 42Yvonne PesserDomeures successivesRead automatically; may contain mistakes.

Language

French

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