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- Held by
- Montreal Holocaust Museum via Canadian Jewish Heritage Network (incl. Alex Dworkin Canadian Jewish Archives)
- Level
- item
- Extent
- Postcard : Paper : printed, handwritten : Ink; Pencil : black, beige, blue, red , purple, green ; Ht: 9 cm x W: 13,9 cm
- Scope & content
- The recto shows a color drawing of the city hall of Basel, Switzerland. In front of the city hall are a lot of people, possibly a market. On the verso are an address, on the r., and a handwritten message, on the l. Postcard is being sent in Opatow in Poland. Narrative: Leah Erman was a dressmaker in Opatow, Poland before the war. During World War II, she was forced to live in a ghetto in Sandomierz, Poland with her husband, Saul Erman and her son Erman Meir. In 1943, she and her son were sent to Starachowice labor camp, Poland where her son was working in an ammunition plant since his was a blacksmith. In 1944, the labor camp was liquidated and the prisoners still able to work were sent to Auschwitz where her head was shaved. She was then separated from her son. Leah came to Montreal from Austria. The donor, Erman Meir, went the Palestine after the war and immigrated in Montreal after the war.
- Location
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- Genre / form
- textual record
- In the picture
- ArchBicycleCity HallCrowdHandbagLampMarketPostcardPramShopStreet LampStreetscapeTowerTagged automatically by a vision model; may contain mistakes.
- Text in the image
- Basel, RathausOGENBACH z ARMRead automatically; may contain mistakes.
- Language
- Yiddish
- Harvested
- 2026-10-19T03:21:16Z · source datestamp n/a · andornot
Digital objects at the source
- imageOpen original at source ↗1991_14_06.jpg
- imageOpen original at source ↗1991_14_06a.jpg