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Montreal Holocaust Museum via Canadian Jewish Heritage Network (incl. Alex Dworkin Canadian Jewish Archives)
Dates
December 04, 1945 (indexed as 1945)
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1 page. One-sided official letter on glossy papier. The Arms of Canada is on the t. part of the document. The letter is an response to Major James Coldwell, a Member of the Parliament at the House of Commons, from James Allison Glen, Minister of Mines and Resources. The letter is about Max Mondschein's immigration to Canada. The document also refers to Boruch Jacob Blaukopf, a insurance policy superintendent who received the Canadian citizenship on 1925-06-15, as Max Mondschein's garantor. Narrative: Max Mondschein was born in Husiatyn (Austro-Hungarian Empire, later Poland, today Ukraine) on 1908-03-16. He moved to Vienna (Austria) early in life. On 1939-09-11, Max Mondschein was deported to the Buchenwald concentration camp as a political prisoner. He was transferred to Auschwitz on 1942-10 where he received the Prisoner Number: 68 585. He was transported to Buna to serve as forced laborer for the I.G. Farben chemical industry from 1942-12 to 1944-12. From 1944-12 to 1945-04, he was confined in a camp near the town for Ellrich, Germany. He was used as forced laborer in the Sachsenhausen-Oranienburg concentration camp in 1945-04 and was liberated on 1945-05-02. After the war, he lived in a Displaced Persons Camp in Germany where he met his wife Renia Maszenberg. He came to Canada in October 1947 and settled in Montreal.
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Letter : Paper : printed : Ink : off-white, black ; Ht: 21 cm x W: 9,5 cm
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CANADAMINISTERMINES AND RESOURCESOttawa, 4th December, 1945.Dear Mr. Coldwell:Yours sincerely,M.J. Coldwell, Esq., M.P.,House of Commons,Ottawa - ONT.I have your letter of the 27th ultimo concerning the case of Maier or Max Mondschein, and I may say in reply to your enquiry that the authority issued in 1939 for the admission of this young man still stands, subject to the conditions that were outlined at that time. The applicant, Mr. Boruch Jacob Blaukopf, of Montreal filed a Statutory Declaration in June, 1939, that if his sister and her son, Maier, could be admitted to Canada, he undertook to set them up on a farm and agreed that they would remain on the farm for five years as from date of their admission. According to information received here recently, the man's mother was one of the victims of the war so that there will only be the one person to come forward.With regard to the young man proceeding to Canada at the present time, I would point out that it is not possible to move immigrants from Germany to Canada just now. There is no machinery as yet for the handling of immigrants on the Continent and, of course, steamship accommodation cannot be obtained in view of the acute shortage of westbound passenger space. Just as soon as the Department can deal with immigrants from Europe, there will be no objection to Maier or Max Mondschein coming forward under the original conditions of admission.Read automatically; may contain mistakes.
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English
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