Archival Descriptions

Displaying items 1 to 20 of 95
Language of Description: English
Country: Canada
  1. 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:...

  2. Beth Shalom Congregation fonds

    • Ottawa Jewish Archives
    • C0008
    • English
    • 1943-2016
    • textual records, photographs, textiles. A.2.5 - A.3.1

    Fond consists of a DVD of: A 50th anniversary celebrations, 2007; A large framed colour photograph of the interior of Beth Shalom (see 4-738); A 2012/2013 (5773) Congregation of Beth Shalom Calendar; One kippa from the 50th Anniversary celebration - 2008; An envelope of photos, mostly from Beth Shalom in the 1970's. Includes photos of the Beth Shalom Choir, various events like Chanukah parties and Beth Shalom's birthday, Beth Shalom Family picnic, a ladies fashion show, several colour slides of an event from the 1970's and various others. UNSCANNED. This envelope is being stored in the phot...

  3. 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...

  4. Ottawa Post of the Jewish War Veterans fonds

    • Ottawa Jewish Archives
    • O0047
    • English
    • 1999-2007
    • textual records, 23 photographs and other material. vault

    Fonds consists of documents related to the published book, "THERE I WAS... A collection of Reminiscences by members of the Ottawa Jewish Community who served in World War II." It also consists of Photographs taken by Elly Bollegraaf at various events from 2001-2012. Textual material consist of newspaper clipping (February 28, 2000); correspondence from Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak (May 9, 2000), Ambassador of Israel David Sultan (May 30, 2000), and Parliamentary librarian Richard Pare (July 28, 2000); 22 typed transcripts; the book THERE I WAS...A collection of Reminiscences by members...

  5. B'nai B'rith Ottawa Lodges Fonds

    • Ottawa Jewish Archives
    • O0005
    • English
    • Textual records, 205 B&W, 2 colour photographs, 2 framed charter documents, 6 framed panoramics, 1 small book, 1 textile uniform The Jewish Star issue located in OS Mixed Box 14; Uniform in Mixed Box 2

    -1. One sole box remains in the collection: The Covenant: The Covenant is the official newspaper of B'nai B'rith. Articles contain mentions of Emergency Fund, Board of Governors, J. Horowitz, Board Committee, Ottawa Lodge News, M. Kapinsky, Parliament Lodge, E. Cohen, New Members, Herb S. Gray - 1967-1972; Minutes - April 1924- January 1927; Book of records of B'nai B’rith's Officer's meeting activities and minutes. Book contains descriptions, invitations, and letters, from the general meetings, events, and activities performed by B'nai B'rith - 1946-1949; Executive and General Meetings Min...

  6. Hy Bloom fonds.

    • Ottawa Jewish Archives
    • I0101
    • English
    • 1951-1998
    • 80 audio cassettes, 28 audio reels, 6 b&w photographs and 10 folders of textual material vault

    Fonds consists of audio cassettes, audio reels, photographs and folders of programs and pamphlets relating to taped events. Inventory of Audio Cassettes: Holocaust- Dedication Holocaust Memorial, Jewish Community Centre, Ottawa, May 7, 1978 - 2 copies (audio reel) Yom Ha Shoah, Holocaust Observance Memorial Service, May 6, 1979 at the Metcalfe Rd. Cemetery. - 2 copies Holocaust Memorial observance for the six million martyrs, May 3, 1981 at the site of the Holocaust Memorial, Jewish Community Cemetery, Ottawa. Holocaust Memorial observance for the six million martyrs, May 2, 1982 at the sit...

  7. Ottawa Talmud Torah Board fonds

    • Ottawa Jewish Archives
    • E0007
    • English
    • 9 boxes of textual records, 131 photographs; B&W, 27 photographs; colour. A.4.1 - A.4.6 2 boxes in OS

    Series consists of Minutes, (1939-1983) of the board and various committees including the Education Committee and the Afternoon School Committee; Parent and Students series, (1910-1994) of early activities of the Board, anniversary celebrations, graduations, yearbooks and Parent Teachers Association; Administration series, (1921-1994) of financial, legal, and teachers activities; and Correspondence series, (1954, 1961-1977) of letters and memos of Directors of education, chairmen of the board and subject categories. UPDATING OF BOX LISTS NEEDED AS OF SEPTEMBER, 2014 Box 1, Box 2 - MINUTE SE...

  8. 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

  9. Hugo Levendel fonds

    Fonds consists of a portfolio of significant Byward Market photographs and members of the Ottawa Jewish community in the late 1930's taken by Hugo Levendel; correspondence, speeches, biographical material; collections of pamphlets, news clippings, Canadian Zionist periodicals outlining the Zionist pathway since the early 1940's (itemized below), Israel Mereminsky's 1933 speech to the Ottawa Histadrut Campaign, 7 scrapbook pages; documentation of his leadership and association with the Poale Zion Ottawa (1933-1944), Israeli Forum, (1949-1953), Jewish Philosophy and Ethics Study Group (1955-1...

  10. Alexander and Gina Dimant fonds

    • Vancouver Holocaust Education Centre
    • RA016
    • English
    • 11.7 cm of textual records4 postcards71 photographs : prints ; black and white, colour7 coins2 bank notes2 thimbles : silver, glass1 pane (20 postage stamps)

    Fonds is comprised of correspondence, photographs, identity and personal documents, society registration documents, minutes, clippings, memorabilia and ephemera created or collected by Alexander and Gina Dimant in Poland, the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR), Italy and Canada. Records pertain to their family history, work, school, and social and volunteer activities prior to and after the Second World War.Records have been arranged into the following series: Correspondence (1941–2019), Photographs ([1920?]–[2016], Personal records (1938–2013), Artefacts (1940–[before 1948], 1997),...

  11. Miriam (London) Goldstein fonds

    Fonds consists of letters written by a Lithuanian friend, Isak Markowitz (Isak Ben Chanan) to Miriam (London) Goldstein in Ottawa. The early letters are from Lithuanian and then from Kibbutz Yagour, Palestine and then a town near Jerusalem, Israel and include observations of the economic, political and social climate; photographs donated by Morton Rappaport and family trees for the descendants of Mozes Moritz Goldstein and the decendants of David Gluck, (the connection between the Gluck family and the Goldstein family is that Mozes Goldstein married a Bella Gluck in May, 1907); DVD entitled...

  12. 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...

  13. JACOBSON, Percy and Joe

    The Percy Jacobson portion of the collection donated in 1990 consists of a typed diary covering the years 1939-1949 in Montreal, correspondence, plays and other writings (some published), legal and financial documents, McGill University Scholarships information, Canadian Authors' Association programs, minutes and reports. There are also documents relating to the sale and copyright of his plays, including contracts and information on the Copyright act. There are some publications among the papers; mostly magazines and newsletters containing articles by Percy Jacobson. There are also some new...

  14. 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...

  15. Vilcsek family collection

    Collection consists primarily of records generated or used during the period of the Second World War by the Vilcsek family in Budapest, Hungary. These include vital statistics and personal records of the Vilcsek family, photographs, and postcards mailed to the family from Ernő Vilcsek while he was in a labour camp in Hungary. Collection also consists of artworks, several on the theme of the Holocaust, created by Eva Kero after her immigration to Vancouver, BC.Collection has been arranged into three series: Correspondence (1942), Family records ([after 1881]–1949) and Artworks (1969–1971).

  16. Vera Gara fonds

    Fonds consists of 1 video cassette produced by CPAC (Canadian Public Affairs Channel) entitled Searching for Nazi Looted Art, January, 29, 2001.

  17. 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).

  18. Pollák, Deneberger, Kiss family fonds

    Fonds is comprised of correspondence, family records and photographs created and/or kept by members of the Pollák, Deneberger and Kiss family, a Jewish family living in Tápiószele, Hungary during the Second World War. Records document the family's separation, internment, hiding and well as pre- and post-war activities.

  19. Kaplan, Shak family fonds

    • Vancouver Holocaust Education Centre
    • RA017
    • English
    • 4.5 cm of textual records99 photographs : black and white, colour37 slides : 35 mm ; colour5 books1 videocassette2 audio cassettes6 objects

    Fonds consists of vital records, citizenship documents, correspondence, photographs, slides, published materials, manuscript, videocassette, audio cassettes and objects relating to the lives and interests of the Kaplan family. Fonds has been arranged into the following series: Kaplan family personal records series (1994–1948); Kaplan family correspondence series (1947–1960); Kaplan family audio-visual materials series ([circa 1975], 1992); Kaplan, Shak family collected published materials series ([before 1989]); Kaplan, Shak photographs series ([193-]–1992); Kaplan, Shak family artefacts se...

  20. 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...