Identification card

Held by

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

Dates

1950 (indexed as 1950)

Level

item

Extent

Identification card : Paper : handwritten, printed : Ink : beige, black, red, blue ; Ht: 12.1 cm x W: 22 cm

Scope & content

Beige, three panel, foreign identification card, double sided. A black & white photograph is stapled to the first inside page. Details are inscribed in blue handwriting attesting to the identification of Mindla Elgarten (Rabinowicz). Four green fiscal stamps on the first inside page, three with a value of 100F and one 20F. 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

In the picture

DocumentHandwrittenIdentity CardMunicipal GovernmentPortraitPostage StampResidential AreaSealStampTypewrittenWomanTagged automatically by a vision model; may contain mistakes.

Text in the image

ElgartenMindlaVarsovieGemeentezegelEtat civilSt. Gilles (Brux)Vol. 1947 Fol. 1044Délivrée à Molenbeek-Saint-Jean,Afgeleverd te Sint-Jans-Molenbeek,Cette carte est valable jusqu'auDeze kaart is geldig totL'Officier de l'Etat civil (person delegué)No 24.086N° du dossier S.P.N° van het dossier O.V.NomNaamPrénomsVoornamenGeboren teDen17 janvier 1913NationalitéNationaliteitPolonaiseBurgerlijke standProfessionBeroepRésidence précédente :Vorige verblijfplaats :Inscrit :Ingeschreven :le 26 avril 195017 janvier 1952De Ambtenaar van de Burgerlijke Stand (of zijn gedelegeerde)RÉSIDENCES SUCCESSIVES - ACHTEREENVOLGENDE VERBLIJFPLAATSENDATUMCOMMUNES - GEMEENTENRUE - STRAATRead automatically; may contain mistakes.

Language

French

Harvested

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