Letter

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

Dates

November 23, 1955 (indexed as 1955)

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item

Extent

Letter : Paper : typed : Ink : off-white, black ; Ht: 28 cm x W: 21,4 cm

Scope & content

1 page and one-sided. The letter was typed by Renia Mondschein and then corrected with an graphite pencil. The letter explains what the different steps of her internment during the Second World War. She mentions that her prisoner number in Auschwitz was A14893. Narrative: Renia Moszenberg, later Mondschein, was born in Kielce, Poland on 1924-08-08. In 1942-04, a ghetto was created in Kielce and Renia stayed in the Kielce ghetto until May 1943. She was then deported to Pionki's labour camp near Radom in Poland. From July 1944 to February 1945, she worked in a ammunition and weapon factory in a sub-camp of Auschwitz, known as Hindenburg (now Zabrze, Poland). Renia Moszenburg was committed to Concentration Camp Mittelbau-Dora, coming from Concentration Camp Auschwitz where she received the Prisoner Number: A 14 893, on 1945-01-28. She was brought to Nordhausen near Bergen-Belsen, Germany where, on 1945-04-14, she was liberated by the British armed forces. After the war, she lived in a Displaced Persons Camp in Germany where she met her husband Max Mondschein. She came to Canada in January 1948 and settled in Montreal.

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Renia Mondschein geb. Moszenberg,3860 Barclay Apt.9,Montreal, Que.EIDESSTATTLICHE ERKLAERUNGMontreal, November 23rd, 1955.Nach der Besatzung der Deutschen Truppen in Poland wurde in Kielce ein Ghetto gebildet, dass heisst ich und meine Familie musste uns re Wohnung verlassen und in einem bestimmten District zu uebersiedeln.Ich befand mich im Ghetto vom April 1942 bis Mai 1943.Ich wurde von meiner Familie separiert und habe von diesem Tage an bis heute meine Eltern und Bruder nie mehr gesehen.Von Mai 1943 bis July 1944 war ich in Arbeitslager "Pionki" b. Radom. In July 1944 wurde ich ueber Auschwitz nach K.Z. Hindenburg gebracht. In Auschwitz habe ich die Nummer A 11893 auf meiner linken Hand taetowiert. In Hindenburg war ich bis 15 Februar 1945. Von hier wurde ich ueber Nordhausen nach Bergen Belsen gebracht woselbst ich von den Englischen Truppen am 15 April befreit wurde.Read automatically; may contain mistakes.

Language

German

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

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