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Country: Canada

  1. 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...

  2. 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

  3. Ottawa Jewish Community Council = Ottawa Vaad Ha'Ir = The Jewish Federation of Ottawa fonds

    • Ottawa Jewish Archives
    • O0043
    • English
    • 8m 44cm of records, 524 B&W and colour photographs and other material, 1 scrapbook Young Peoples Division poster located in OS Mixed Box 12

    Fonds consist of series of administration documents, minutes of meetings, correspondence, standing committees (including United Jewish Appeal), ad hoc committees and agencies and institutions. BOX 1 - Series: Minutes Organizational Meeting Minutes - 1934: Documents pertaining to the creation of an Ottawa Vaad Ha'Ir, as favoured unanimously by the Vaad Hakashruth. Minutes - Quarterly, General, Special notices of Meetings - 1934-1949. Officers Meeting Minutes - 1952-1965 (incomplete), 1971-1985. BOX 2 - Series: Minutes Officers Notices of Meetings and Agendas - 1952-1983, 1985 BOX 3 - Series:...

  4. Agudath Israel Congregation fonds

    • Ottawa Jewish Archives
    • C0005
    • English
    • 1938-2016
    • 16 boxes, 3 scrapbooks; 28 CD's containing photographs of events, 2 scrolls A.1.6 - A.2.3 2 scrolls in OS

    Fonds consists of the administrative records of the synagogue including minutes, annual meetings, financial, bulletins and the rich programming of the Men’s Club, Sisterhood, Malca Pass Library. Files contain: Minutes of the Board 1949-1986, 1993-2007, Annual Meetings - 1949-1986, 1991-2007, General Meetings, 1953-1981, various committees, 1955-1996; Bulletins (1948- 2009 with some gaps), Agudath Israel Men’s Club, (1961-1980); Sisterhood membership, (1938-1940,1956 - 1987), minutes of meetings, (1955-1997), Newsletters, (1955- 1984), Cinderella Ball, (1962-1983), Nearly New Shop (1968-2000...

  5. Cantor David Aptowitzer Family fonds

    Mohel Cantor D. Aptowitzer Circumcision Register, Book 1, bris 1 to 190 - September 1965 - September 1972; Mohel Cantor D. Aptowitzer Circumcision Register, Book 2, bris 191 to 858 - April 1973 - January 1986; Mohel Cantor D. Aptowitzer Circumcision Register, Book 3, bris 859 to 1444 - January 1986 - March 2000; Mohel Cantor D. Aptowitzer Circumcision Register, Book 4, bris 1445 to 1464 - July 2000 - July 2006; Mohel Cantor D. Aptowitzer Circumcision Index Book (alphabetical); File 1 - Biographical Information, Wall, Lawrence. “Aptowitzer memoirs document lines of turmoil, survival.” The Bu...

  6. 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...

  7. 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...

  8. 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.

  9. 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...

  10. 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.

  11. 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.

  12. 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...

  13. 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

  14. 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.

  15. 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.

  16. 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.

  17. 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.

  18. 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.

  19. 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.

  20. 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).