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Letter
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Letter

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Montreal Holocaust Museum via Canadian Jewish Heritage Network (incl. Alex Dworkin Canadian Jewish Archives)
Dates
June 01, 1946 (indexed as 1946)
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item
Scope & content
1 page. Two-sided letter from Gustav Herzog. The text was typed with a 2 cm margin on the l. and no margin on the r. Gustav Herzog and Max Mondschein became friends during internment in concentration camp. The purpose of the letter is to inform Max Mondschein about the whereabouts of common friends. Gustav Herzog also writes about his potential immigration to the United States. Many survivors are named: Beck, Fitz; Rausch, Felix; Lustings, Fredl; Meier, Fritz Winter; Kozwara, Paul; Grünberg, Paul; Friedental, Rudi; Spitzer, Pauli. Some of them are survivors from the Buna-Monowitz concentration camp. 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 : typed, stamped : Ink : beige, black, purple ; Ht: 29,5 cm x W: 20,8 cm
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textual record
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Wien,1.Juli 1946Dr.Gustav HerzogWien, IV.Belvederegasse 23/7Herrn Max MondscheinFeldstrasse 4LüneburgLieber, alter Mondi!Dein so überaus lieber Brief hat mir wirklich viel Freude gemacht.Read automatically; may contain mistakes.
Language
German
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