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Country: Canada

  1. Interned Refugees

    1. UNITED JEWISH RELIEF AGENCIES (UJRA)

    Assistance to refugees from Germany and Austria, most of whom were Jewish, interned in Britain as "Prisoners of War" in May 1940 and transferred to Australia and Canada shortly thereafter.

  2. Supplementary Administrative Files about Refugees

    1. UNITED JEWISH RELIEF AGENCIES (UJRA)

    There are 8 boxes in this series:0.52 metres of refugee case files and transmigration files. 0.30 metres of refugee location services. 0.30 metres of Immigration and labour cases (1948-1952) relating to Shanghai, the Guild of Craftsmen, and Garment/ Tailor Projects. 0.30 metres of refugee transportation (departure lists, 1948-1954). 0.15 metres of transmission of funds. 0.15 metres related to projects: Refugee Youth Project (1947-1949), orphan cases (1948-1967), citizenship cases (1948-1950), Film Board projects (1949), and Rabbinical College (1950). General note: 2 photographs were removed...

  3. "Enemy Aliens": The Internment of Jewish Refugees in Canada, 1940-1943

    1. Vancouver Holocaust Education Centre fonds
    2. Exhibition records

    Sub-series consists of promotional materials, guest book, media coverage, exhibition catalogue, imaging licensing and permission documentation and other records to do with the "Enemy Aliens": The Internment of Jewish Refugees in Canada, 1940-1943 exhibition, which ran from June 12, 2012 to October 11, 2013.

  4. Questionnaires

    1. UNITED JEWISH RELIEF AGENCIES (UJRA)
    2. Interned Refugees

    Issued by the Central Committee for Interned Refugees and completed by interned refugees to facilitate their release. Arranged by case name alphabetically or by specialty required by Canadian War Industry or non-German or non-Italian nationality.

  5. Press Clippings

    1. UNITED JEWISH RELIEF AGENCIES (UJRA)
    2. JDC Refugee and Relief Program

    Jewish refugees from Europe, including Iberian refugees and those interned in Canada, as perceived by diverse segments of the Canadian press. Arrangement is by general subject with much material on individual cases included.

  6. Evacuees, Farm Settlers, Other A-K

    1. UNITED JEWISH RELIEF AGENCIES (UJRA)
    2. UJRA Refugee Case Files

    Includes Jewish mothers and children evacuated from Britain to Canada for the duration of the war. Currency regulations prevented transfer of funds from England, necessitating UJRA financial assistance in form of loans. The Council for Overseas Children was specifically charged with responsibility for this group. Also contains cases concerning relief to newly settled refugee farmers from Sudetanland, the latter having been initially sponsored by the Farm and Establishment Committee of what was the newly-formed Canadian Jewish Committee for refugees. Refugees from Japan and refugees in trans...

  7. Shanghai Post War Emigrants

    1. UNITED JEWISH RELIEF AGENCIES (UJRA)
    2. Transmission of Funds

    Account and related matters on emigration from Shanghai by self-supporting refugees and those requiring financial assistance for transportation. Excludes trust account deposits.

  8. Annual Files

    1. UNITED JEWISH RELIEF AGENCIES (UJRA)
    2. Administrative Files

    UJRA assistance to and on behalf of refugees in terms of relief, location of relatives and immigration. Casework, diplomatic efforts, resource material. Location requests all referred to JIAS.

  9. Memoranda

    1. UNITED JEWISH RELIEF AGENCIES (UJRA)
    2. Administrative Files

    From Saul Hayes National Executive Director on behalf of UJRA or the Central Committee for Interned Refugees. Related to wartime refugee programs.

  10. Supplementary Canadian Jewish Congress and related files

    1. Canadian Jewish Congress organizational records

    This series is composed of a diverse selection of recently arranged Canadian Jewish Congress and other organizational materials dating from the 1920s through to the 1980s. Highlights include H.M. Caiserman correspondence, labour correspondence, and information on Jews in Protestant schools, WW2 internees, and refugees.

  11. Hard Core Cases

    1. UNITED JEWISH RELIEF AGENCIES (UJRA)
    2. Canadian Jewish Congress Special Immigration Cases

    A group of especially difficult to resettle refugees with extreme social, occupational or physical disabilities for whom immigration to a suitable country, one able to provide appropriate social services, was essential for their rehabilitation. The CJC handled these cases primarily through JIAS

  12. Canadian Jewish Congress Special Immigration Cases

    1. UNITED JEWISH RELIEF AGENCIES (UJRA)

    Information on settlement of escapees (to Spain, Portugal, Tangier and Japan), refugees with extreme disabilities ("Hard Core Cases") and cases of deportation, inheritance, and Nazi war crimes. Also includes participants in the family unification program, and various subject files by Dr. Saalheimer.

  13. MS St. Louis

    Fonds consists of one folder containing a metal pin commemorating the MS St. Louis (November 7, 2018) and an invitation to a live broadcast of the government’s statement of apology for the MS St. Louis incident, written in French and English

  14. Arie van Mansum fonds

    • Ottawa Jewish Archives
    • I0022
    • English
    • 1940-2007
    • 21cm of textual records, 17 photographs 1 box in OS

    Fonds consists of textual records, photographs, and ephemera. Series include Arie Van Mansum's experiences during WWII, his postwar experiences, personal accounts, correspondence, Margaretha Van Mansum, pamphlets, the Dutch Undeground movement, and Canada. Fonds also contains a framed certificate from The Jewish Community Council of Ottawa to Arie van Mansum stating the establishment of the Arie van Mansum Holocaust Education Resource Project - 1991; a framed certificate in French and Hebrew, presented to Arie van Mansum by La Commission des Justes (Commission of the Righteous) in Jerusalem...

  15. UNITED JEWISH RELIEF AGENCIES (UJRA)

    This fonds is divided into 11 major series, relfecting the principal activities of the organization, with an emphasis on the WWII and postwar period.

  16. Publishing

    1. Michael Marrus fonds

    Series consists of records relating to Prof. Marrus’s vast publishing record. In particular, files pertain to specific publication projects (predominantly book projects), and include contracts, reviews, and correspondence with publishers, literary agents and readers. Few files include research notes. Files are arranged chronologically by publication date, with a general file of reviews at the end.Publications documented in these files• The politics of assimilation: a study of the French Jewish community at the time of the Dreyfus affair (Oxford: The Clarendon Press, 1971).• Vichy et les Jui...

  17. BOROD (BORODITSKY), Sam and Layah = Canadian Jewish Servicemen Memoir and Pioneer Women Na'amat

    Diary written while a World War II soldier, in a small notebook, also available in digital format; comprising 33 out of the approximately 127 pages of scanned materials, which also include newsclippings and photographs. CD of the digital copies of the diary and other documents, as initially received and scanned by Tatiana Jour in the context of her Russian Jewish Archives Project. It was noted at the time of the donation to the Archives that further materials on UNRAA (postwar aid to refugees) and Na'amat could be donated by the Borods at a later date. Added in 2007: Materials in prose, poe...

  18. Jean Rose fonds

    Fonds consists of case files, committee reports and correspondence relating to Rose’s work with Jewish immigrants to Canada in the 1940s and 1950s. Also included are a number of commemorative materials including obituaries and tribute articles.Fonds consists of the following series:1. Immigration case work2. Commemorative materials3. Audio testimony

  19. René Goldman fonds

    The records in this fonds pertain mostly to René Goldman and his parents, Wolf and Mira Goldman from Poland, Luxembourg and France. Fonds consists of family photographs, travel and identity documents, disappearance reports, certificates and post-war school records from orphanages resided in by René Goldman. Records have been arranged into the following two series: Goldman family photographs series (1917–[195-?]) and Goldman family records series (1929–1965).

  20. My name is Ethel Kerzner

    1. Kerzner Family fonds

    Summary: Ethel Kernzer (nee Kott) was born December 4 1931 in Troyanivka, Ukraine, to Mordechai and Risi (sp?) Kott. She had two older siblings, a brother named Moshe and a sister named Gittle. In 1942 at the age of 11 years old she became aware that things were changing in her town, neighbours became unfriendly and her father’s business went on the decline. Then one day all the Jews in town were called to come out to a big church in the center of the town and killings began. Ethel ran away and wound up living in the Ukrainian forest with neighbors, some family members, and others who had f...