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Language of Description: English
Country: Canada

  1. Central Committee of Polish Jews — 1946 Activities Report

    Contains a report regarding the activities of the Central Committee of Polish Jews to aid Polish Holocaust survivors. These include providing food, clothes, children’s homes, etc. Booklet largely consists of graphs and diagrams.

  2. Collection about Rudolf Vrba

    Collection consists of articles, lectures, correspondence, newspaper clippings and other textual material produced and collected by John Conway relating to the life, activity and legacy of Dr. Rudolf Vrba, a Slovak Jewish Holocaust survivor escaped from Auschwitz and associate professor of pharmacology at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, BC.Collection has been arranged into the following series: Vierteljahrshefre für Zeitgelchichte documents series (1997–2010); Vrba memorial lecture series (2006–2014); Biographical material series (1987–2010); Correspondence and research rec...

  3. Collection about the Gottfried family

    The collection consists of vital records, administrative documents, trade certificates, travel papers, correspondence, letters of reference, liturgical materials, and photographs relating to the lives of members of the Gottfried family and the families of Gerda and Lori Gottfried's husbands (the Kraus and Seemann families, respectively). Records detail the vital statistics, career history, educational attainment, travels and emigration efforts of the family from the early twentieth century until the beginning of the twenty-first century. Collection has been arranged into the following serie...

  4. David and Regina Feldman fonds

    Fonds consists of identification papers, travel documents, letters of reference, ephemera as well as family photographs and heirlooms. Records document the Feldmans’ experience of the Holocaust in Poland, specifically their time in displaced persons camps, in Bergen-Belsen, as well as their immigration to and life in Canada.Fonds is divided into the following two series: Regina Feldman series ([1923?]–[196-]), David Feldman series ([18--]–1990).

  5. Dr. Erwin and Edie Koranyi fonds

    • Ottawa Jewish Archives
    • I0058
    • English
    • 1944-2011
    • textual records; 1 framed document; 3 books; 3 artifacts; 1 DVD interview 1 box in OS

    Fonds consists of the following documents, photographs and items: 1 framed document entitled Schutz-Pass No. 0176, issued in July 1944 by R. Wallenberg. It is written in German and Hungarian and contains a photograph of Erwin Koranyi (see 1-969); 1 Displaced Person’s Identity Card (with photograph) from Wiesenhof, Austria DP Camp (see 1-972-02/03); 1 document written 28 Feb 1951 from the International Refugee Organization (IRO) in Dusseldorf to Mr. Erwin Koranyi (see 1-972-04); 1 document written in Hungarian, issued by the Swedish Royal Embassy which exempted Erwin Koranyi from forced labo...

  6. Dr. Leon Komar collection

    Collection consists of materials relating to Warsaw, Poland, in the Second World War era. Records include correspondence from Komar's family living in the Warsaw ghetto, documents showing a German leaflet dropped on Warsaw in 1938 and accompanying translations and commentary by the donor. Collection has been arranged into two series: German leaflet dropped from planes ([1939?], 1990) and Letters from the Warsaw ghetto (1938-1942; 1996).

  7. DUCHOW, Rebecca Briansky = Memoirs of a Polish childhood, Grajewo

    209-page unpublished typescript with illustrations, titled . Also a diskette containing the text.

  8. Eisinger family fonds

    Fonds consists of vital records, passports and travel permits, correspondence, objects, photographs, letters of reference, and ephemera relating to the lives of members of the Eisinger family, as well as their family history. Fonds has been arranged into the following series: Eisinger family government and vital records series (1916–1980); Eisinger, Marcus family correspondence series (1939–1954); Bedrich Eisinger Czechoslovak Army documents and objects series (1940–1946); Gerda Eisinger career documents series (1939–1977); Eisinger family photographs series (1937–[197-]); Reparation and co...

  9. Ejnesman, Kornwaser family photograph collection

    Collection is comprised of original photographs and photo postcards of Shoshana Fidelman’s grandparents, parents, uncles and aunts and siblings, none of whom survived the Holocaust. Photographs were taken in Poland prior to the Second World War and mailed by Shoshana Fidelman’s family living in Starachowice-Wierzbnik and Bodzentyn to family members in Canada and Israel.

  10. Elly Bollegraaf fonds

    Fonds consists of two parliamentary letters from MPP Naqvi and Preimer McGuinty; a photo album of photos from the "A Coat of Many Colours" exhibit; a photo album of photos from the first international gathering of children hidden during the Second World War, 1991; a photo album of photos of "The Courage to Remember" exhibit 1991; a photo album of photos from the Leo Haas "Visual Memory" exhibit; 3 packets of photographs; a card sent to Elly from Anna Heilman, an Auschwitz survivor

  11. Elsbeth Heckers fonds

    Fonds consists of: a scrapbook of photos and Second World War / Holocaust letters outlining the family history and deportations.

  12. Exhibition material and poetry, the Kaddish Series

    This file contains poetry, notes and photographic documentation related to Briansky's Kaddish Series.

  13. Family Remembrance

    Contains two booklets of Holocaust memorials, 'Yom Hashoah, Holocaust Commemoration Service, 1995' and "We Will Not Forget Them - In Memory of the Jews of Vilna (1943- 1963)." Herein Sonia Tencer (nee Smolnik) tells the story of the murder of her brother, Leib Smolknik, during the Holocaust.

  14. Frank Orban fonds

    • Vancouver Holocaust Education Centre
    • RA027
    • English
    • 2005
    • 2.15 cm textual records12 postcards3 photographed documents1 album (86 photographs)53 photographs : black and white, colour1 photograph : slide

    Fonds consists of postcards, photographs, identity, work and personal documents produced or received by Frank Orban relating to his family, work and life in Hungary, Israel, Greece and Canada. Fonds has been arranged into the following series: Postcards series (1944), Photographs series ([after 1919]–2005), Personal records series (1938–2005), and Compensation correspondence series (1998–2004).

  15. Freda Hoffman Zgodzinski Collection

    Consists of manuscript in Yiddish entitled, "My Struggle 1939-1945 under the Nazi Occupation of Poland" by Freda Hoffman-Zgodzinski.

  16. GIBEROVITCH, Myra : Contributions of Montreal Holocaust Survivor Organizations to Jewish Communal Life

    The sound portion of the collection consists of 49 audio tapes, 1987-1990. There are transcripts of many of the interviews. The other textual records consist of background materials for her M.A. thesis, "The Contribution of Montreal Survivor Organizations to Jewish Communal Life" (McGill School of Social Work, 1988), with information on key participants from Canada's large community of Holocaust survivors. The collection includes issues of The Voice of Survivors (magazine), 1963, 1966 and Voice of Radom (magazine), 1980-1987.

  17. GUTMAN, Adam = ADAMS, George (pseudonym)

    • Alex Dworkin Canadian Jewish Archives
    • P0195
    • English
    • 1936-2003
    • Env. 0.18 metres of textual records. - 3 compact discs (CD-ROM). - 6 photographs. - 21 discs. - 6 books. - 19 sound elements. - 4 videos.

    Poetry volume , desktop published, containing poems and a reproduction of a Gutman painting (done under the pseudonym Benjamin Raysele.) Photocopies of musical scores for Yiddish poems, clippings about French Canadian music scene, including singer Alys Robi. Added 2000: Clippings about October 2000 tribute to Gutman at CJC National Archives, CD of music composed by Gutman (compiled by his son Jimmy), CD of song sheets and illustrated posters for Gutman's music composed for popular French singers in Quebec in the 1950s and 1960s. Addition 2007: 4 color photo, 1967-2000. One sketch of Adam Gu...

  18. HAIBLEN, Alfred : Internee and Post-Internment Papers

    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...

  19. Henry Morgentaler and Gertrude Katz

    This fonds is divided into three sections. The first consists of correspondence, writings, and other materials that directly pertain to Dr. Henry Morgentaler or were authored by him. The second section consists of documents pertaining to Gertrude Katz's role in the Morgentaler Clinics, her professional and creative writings, and her volunteer activities. The third consists of additional biographical material donated by Gertrude Katz, including information about other family members, notably about the World War II experience of her husband Carl in the merchant marine.

  20. The Herz (Volume 1, Issue 2)