HAIBLEN, Alfred : Internee and Post-Internment Papers

HAIBLEN, Alfred : Internee and Post-Internment Papers 

HAIBLEN, Alfred : Internee and Post-Internment Papers 

Env. 0.06 metres of textual records. - 8 photographs. - 4 drawings. 

Several folders of correspondence with various Canadian and American family friends and sponsors, McGill university documents, all from the late 1930s and early to mid-1940s. Short biographical and explanatory letters written by Mr. Haiblen in 1980, 1993, 2000 and 2004, with explanatory notes appended by his daughter Barb Rugo. Addition: 1 copy print photo Alfred Haiblen (at left) and 3 other McGill land surveying course students on a fieldtrip, outside the Seignory Club at Montebello in 1944. 7 additional photos of Fred Haiblen (1939-1946). One additional folder of school-related documents (1941-1948). 1 article from McGill University magazine about the former internee students, with a photo including Mr. Haiblen, 2001. 1 pen and ink with water color drawing in card format, documenting Mr. Haiblen's journey from England to Canada painted by Norbert Berstl, another inmate of the camp. Added in February 2012: 1 cm. of additional internment papers, sketches and ephemera found among the papers of the late Alfred Haiblen and donated through his daughter Barb Rugo. The documents include: currency exchange records from camps A and Q, travel itinerary between camp Q, and blank forms of consent to return to the United Kingdom accompanied by handwritten note of refusal to return voluntarily. Also a certification letter regarding Joseph Ettinger as a geometry teacher in Camp A. The ephemera includes: Camp A, luggage tags, canteen tokens, unused camp postcard and envelopes. There are 3 pencil sketches: one a portrait of (Alfred) Hans-Dieter Haiblen as a young man, one of a guard tower (initialed with a monogram possibly composed of the letters"L, J, E"), and one showing several identified figures in a group, perhaps meant to accompany a group photograph.