Object numberM2013/020:002
DescriptionThis is an identification card issued by the University of Paris. It officiates that the holder, Mr. Marek Kamrat, was studying his medical doctorate at the institution between 1932 and 1934. Born in Poland, Marek moved to France to study medicine and then undertook a specialised degree in stomatology (oral surgery).
It was during this period that he met his wife Nicole, also Polish born and a student and apprentice of millinery. They married in 1940 and by 1941 they were expecting their first child. For Marek however, the pleasure of freedom and family would be denied by the anti-Jewish measures of the ruling Vichy Government. Arrested and interned at the French Beane-la-Rolande transit camp for Jews, he was then transported to Auschwitz. Marek would later receive the French Silver Medaille Des Epidemies for his remarkable effort in saving those suffering illness and disease in some of the most notorious Nazi extermination camps.
It was during this period that he met his wife Nicole, also Polish born and a student and apprentice of millinery. They married in 1940 and by 1941 they were expecting their first child. For Marek however, the pleasure of freedom and family would be denied by the anti-Jewish measures of the ruling Vichy Government. Arrested and interned at the French Beane-la-Rolande transit camp for Jews, he was then transported to Auschwitz. Marek would later receive the French Silver Medaille Des Epidemies for his remarkable effort in saving those suffering illness and disease in some of the most notorious Nazi extermination camps.
Production placeParis, France
Production date 1933 - 1934
Object nameidentity cards
Materialpaper
Dimensions
- width: 80.00 mm
height: 120.00 mm
Credit lineSydney Jewish Museum Collection, Donated by Ms Nicole Strasser