Cap

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Held by: Montreal Holocaust Museum via Canadian Jewish Heritage Network (incl. Alex Dworkin Canadian Jewish Archives)
Dates: 1933-1945 (indexed as 1933–1945)
Level: item
Extent: Cap : sewing : grey, blue ; Ht: 3 in. x W: 7 1/4 in.
Scope & content: Cap made of striped wool, machine stitched. The interior is lined with herringbone fabric. Narrative: The cap was given to Alec Edmison by a former prisoner when he visited Dachau in 1945 as an officer of the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration (UNRRA). Alec (John Alexander) Edmison was born in Cheltenham, Ontario and praticed law in Montreal until his enlistment into the Black Watch, Royal Highland Regiment of Canada, in 1940. He served overseas from June 1941 to 1945-01-01, when he was appointed by UNRRA as its Chief Liaison Officer to Supreme Head-quarters Allied Expeditionary Forces (SHAEF). In France and Germany he set up the organization for the care of refugees, displaced persons, and concentration camp survivors. He died in Peterborough, Ontario in 1980.
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