| Dates ultimes |
1991-2005. |
| Niveau de description |
Fonds |
| Collection |
FINKELSTEIN, Harry (Harry Kel) : Poetry, Biography: Holocaust, Post-War.
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| No du fonds |
P0204 |
| Collation |
Env. 0.03 metres of textual records. |
| Notice biographique / histoire administrative |
Harry "Kel" Finkelstein was born in 1947 in the Wolfrathshuasen DP camp to Polish parents from the town Zdunska-Wola, who had survived Auschwitz-Birkenau. He came to Canada (Montreal) at the age of one, in 1948. After working in textiles with his father, they later moved to Toronto. Harry Finkelstein writes of his struggles with bipolar disorder, which affected his career and coloured his prolific poetry writing. His website "www.harrykel.org" reflects his concerns with the Holocaust and its after-effects. |
| Histoire de la conservation |
The collection was donated to the Archives on Nov. 9, 2005, by Harry Finkelstein. |
| Portée et contenu |
Self-published spiral bound volume of poetry, c. 200 pages, 1991-1995, themes of Holocaust and depression. Biography from www.harrykel.com (illustrated) about parents in Poland, Auschwitz-Birkenau, Wolfrathshausen DP camp, and author in Montreal and Toronto. |
| Notes |
P04/14, ZB.Testimony of the child of survivors including reference to the effect of the Holocaust on the author's mental state. He relates the pain of bi-polar depression to the feelings invoked by the events of war. |
| Dépôt d'archives |
Canadian Jewish Congress Charities Committee National Archives |
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