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Canadian Jewish Congress organizational records
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn2
- Collection
- Canadian Jewish Congress organizational records
- Description Level
- Fonds
- Material Type
- textual record
- graphic material
- sound recording
- moving images
- Physical Description
- Env. 361.57 metres of textual records. - Env. 14100 photographs. - 1531 sound elements. - 43 films. - 1017 videos.
- Fonds No.
- CJC0001
- Date
- 1765-present.
- Scope and Content
- The collection consists of several classes of material, as described in the series descriptions below. While the CJC materials begin in 1919, Series Z, the documentation collection, contains material that precedes this date, a few items going back even as far as the earliest settlement of Jews in C…
- Description Level
- Fonds
- Material Type
- textual record
- graphic material
- sound recording
- moving images
- Physical Description
- Env. 361.57 metres of textual records. - Env. 14100 photographs. - 1531 sound elements. - 43 films. - 1017 videos.
- Scope and Content
- The collection consists of several classes of material, as described in the series descriptions below. While the CJC materials begin in 1919, Series Z, the documentation collection, contains material that precedes this date, a few items going back even as far as the earliest settlement of Jews in Canada in the late 18th century.
- Date
- 1765-present.
- Fonds No.
- CJC0001
- History / Biographical
- Canadian Jewish Congress was founded in Montreal in March 1919. "The Parliament of Canadian Jewry," CJC was constituted as the democratically elected, national organizational voice of the Jewish community of Canada, serving as the community's vehicle for defence and representation. Committed to preserving and strengthening Jewish life, CJC acted on matters affecting the status, rights and welfare of the Canadian Jewish community, other Diaspora communities and the Jewish people in Israel. CJC combatted antisemitism and racism, promoted human rights, fostered interfaith, cross-cultural relations and worked towards tolerance, understanding and goodwill among all segments of society in a multicultural Canada. The organization spoke on a broad range of public policy, humanitarian and social-justice issues on the national agenda that affected the Jewish community and Canadian society at large. Through its charitable operations, CJC provided domestic and international relief aid on a non-sectarian basis, following natural disasters and to isolated Jewish communities in need. The Archives department also fell under the mandate of CJC Charities Committee. In 1999 the CJC national office relocated to Ottawa, with three regional CJC offices (Quebec, Ontario and Pacific), as well as affiliated offices across the country. CJC ceased operations in July 2011, when it was absorbed into the newly-created Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs (CIJA), along with the Canada-Israel Committee, the Quebec-Israel Committee, National Jewish Campus Life and the University Outreach Committee. CJC and its charitable wing were formally disbanded in late 2015. Since that time the CJCCC National Archives, renamed the Alex Dworkin Canadian Jewish Archives as of January 2016, functions under the aegis of Jewish Federations Canada UIA.
- Custodial History
- Both the national headquarters and the Quebec Jewish Congress (formerly Quebec Region, Eastern Region) offices of the Canadian Jewish Congress were located in Montreal until 1999, when most of the national office relocated to Ottawa. The National Archives is the repository of records created and received in these offices. The collection also includes materials from the National Office in Ottawa, as well as the national records of Manuel Prutschi, Bernie Farber, and other national departments based in Toronto and Vancouver. The regional offices of Canadian Jewish Congress outside Quebec are little represented in the collection, aside from correspondence from across the country and certain publications which were addressed to the national office.
- Notes
- General note: The number of paper records in this collection is subject to change, due to additions to Documentation Series Z as well as the ongoing weeding of duplications. Most of the material was created after 1919, with the exception of Series Z, which includes photocopies and a small number of originals dating back as far as 1765.
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Canadian Jewish Archives
Images
NATIONAL COUNCIL OF JEWISH WOMEN (NCJW)
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn50
- Collection
- NATIONAL COUNCIL OF JEWISH WOMEN (NCJW)
- Description Level
- Fonds
- Material Type
- textual record
- graphic material
- sound recording
- moving images
- Physical Description
- 8.09 metres of textual records. - 1488 photographs. - 3 sound elements. - 3 discs. - 7 videos.
- Fonds No.
- I0048
- Date
- 1909-1990.
- Scope and Content
- National by-laws (1950, 1965, 1969). Resolutions (1961-1969). Administrative & financial records. Hotel facilities (1959-1965). Annual report (1970). Minutes (1955-1974 with gaps). Biennial reports and minutes (1950-1959). Correspondence. Year book (1944). Directory (1972-1973). Officers lists (194…
- Collection
- NATIONAL COUNCIL OF JEWISH WOMEN (NCJW)
- Description Level
- Fonds
- Material Type
- textual record
- graphic material
- sound recording
- moving images
- Physical Description
- 8.09 metres of textual records. - 1488 photographs. - 3 sound elements. - 3 discs. - 7 videos.
- Scope and Content
- National by-laws (1950, 1965, 1969). Resolutions (1961-1969). Administrative & financial records. Hotel facilities (1959-1965). Annual report (1970). Minutes (1955-1974 with gaps). Biennial reports and minutes (1950-1959). Correspondence. Year book (1944). Directory (1972-1973). Officers lists (1948-1949, 1973). Board member list (1971). Other membership lists. Pamphlets on International Council of Jewish Women. Biennial conventions (ICJW & NCJW). Minutes & information (1953-1973). Publications, flyers, invitations, seminar notes. Convention information, lecture notes and agendas. Gerontology conference notes (1968). Bulletin (1946). Magazines (1963-1973 with gaps). Programs & services materials (foster homes, Project Canada, School for Citizen Participation 1970), field service (1964-1965), workbooks, the elderly, National Theatre for Canada (1961-1963), overseas service (1954-1960), public affairs (1965-1967), leadership). Booklet on history of NCJW (1967). Material on "Canadian Women of the Century 1867-1967" (1967). Scrapbooks. Clippings (1940s-1990 and photocopies of 1909, 1912 articles). Photos, including slides of events, services, programs in Israel & Canada (1914-1975) - collection PC 3. Sound recordings of meetings and lectures (1950s-1970s).
- Date
- 1909-1990.
- Fonds No.
- I0048
- History / Biographical
- The National Council of Jewish Women was established in the United States in 1893, to help new Jewish immigrants. A Canadian branch began in Toronto in 1897. In Montreal the Baron de Hirsch Institute covered immigrant aid at that time, and the Montreal NCJW chapter was only founded in 1918. The International Council was formed in 1912. NCJW is dedicated to furthering human welfare in the Jewish and general community, locally, nationally, and internationally. They do and did so through scholarships, summer camps, libraries, aiding immigrants, volunteer work, pre-and post-war refugee aid, gerontology research, services to the elderly, support of the Golden Age Association, shipments of play and school materials to Israel and North Africa, lobbying for equal pay and other human rights bills, and opening a shelter for battered Jewish women. Their members across Canada and the world both fundraise and volunteer.The National office of NCJW Canada moved from Montreal to Toronto in the mid-1950s before settling in Winnipeg in the early 1990s where it remained until 2015.
- Custodial History
- The collection is divided into three parts: an original donation of material relating to the National office in Montreal and other locations up to 1978; National material donated in 2015 by the Winnipeg National headquarters office (1943-2009); and (see Series A) material relating to the Montreal Chapter office (1926-1999)
- Notes
- Alpha-numeric designations: MA 4, PC 3.
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Canadian Jewish Archives
Images
ABER, Ita
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn285
- Collection
- ABER, Ita
- Description Level
- Fonds
- Material Type
- graphic material
- object
- moving images
- sound recording
- textual record
- Physical Description
- 13 photographs. - 4 artefacts. - 2 videos. - 1 compact disc (CD-ROM). - Env. 0.07 metres of textual records.
- Fonds No.
- P0184
- Date
- [ca. 1930]-2015.
- Scope and Content
- Recipies Mother Never Knew Mizrachi-Hapoel, 1965. Glass milk bottle designed with input from Mrs. Aber's mother for Montreal's Milk Fund, pre-WWII. Pins and badges from Zionist groups and conventions, photos of the staff of Aid to Israel 1950, Aid to Israel Jewish Youth Group 1950, Zionist Organiza…
- Collection
- ABER, Ita
- Description Level
- Fonds
- Material Type
- graphic material
- object
- moving images
- sound recording
- textual record
- Physical Description
- 13 photographs. - 4 artefacts. - 2 videos. - 1 compact disc (CD-ROM). - Env. 0.07 metres of textual records.
- Scope and Content
- Recipies Mother Never Knew Mizrachi-Hapoel, 1965. Glass milk bottle designed with input from Mrs. Aber's mother for Montreal's Milk Fund, pre-WWII. Pins and badges from Zionist groups and conventions, photos of the staff of Aid to Israel 1950, Aid to Israel Jewish Youth Group 1950, Zionist Organization of Canada 1949-1950. Material on the Jewish Child's Day Appeal. Clippings and ephemera re: Zionism, Child's Day, and actor William Shatner, a former Montrealer. 9 Photos of Montreal scenes. Material about Montreal's Talmud Torah, Jewish Artists at Congregation Shaar Hashomayim. Additions 2001: 2 photos (snapshots) of Camp Hashomer Hadati in Bronte, Ontario, Hebrew textbook and prayer book dated 1979, photo of a 9th-grade class of Baron Byng High School including Ita Aber, Clippings, 2 Videos. Additions post 2001 (passim): Articles written by Ita Aber, information about her artwork and recent exhibitions. Addition 2015: Autobiographical audio interview of Ita Herscovitch Aber recorded in New York January 9, 2015 by Renata Stein; WAV file, 56 minutes, provided on CD. Transcript of interview, done by her daughter Mindy Aber Barad via email correspondence from Israel, 30 pages. Themes covered in the interview include her early life in Montreal, art education at Baron Byng high school with teacher Ann Savage, religious background, mother's involvement in charitable efforts such as the Milk Fund, help given to a German Jewish internee and a Jewish refugee, Ita Aber's work for the Israeli consulate in Montreal in the early 1950s, her establishment in New York circa 1953, her career as a textile artist, encounters with Martin Luther King, and Judy Chicago, art groups such as the Pomegranate Guild, Jewish motifs in artwork.
- Date
- [ca. 1930]-2015.
- Fonds No.
- P0184
- History / Biographical
- Ita Aber was born in Montreal, in 1932 and grew up in a family dedicated to Zionist and charitable causes. She later moved to New York, where she made her name as an artist. As described in a 2001 article; "Ita Aber is an artist who delights in unconventional formats that provide unique and startling insights into Jewish Life. Her work is found in almost every major Jewish museum throughout the world. She is a master of the fabric arts, which is by its very nature, an interdisciplinary field. As practiced by Ita Aber, the fabric arts explode in scale to include the diverse skills of embroidering, beadwork, sewing, appliqué, silkscreen, jewelry design, weaving, painting, sculpture, and assemblage. The stunning range of her talents is reflected in the vast array of work and Judaic objects she has produced, from wall hangings, jewelry, and sculpture to Torah covers, etrog boxes, and Purim masks." Ita Aber is also known as a conservator of textiles, an art historian, a curator, teacher, and the author of The Art of Judaic Needlework: Traditional and Contemporary designs (Scribner 1979).
- Custodial History
- This collection was donated by Mrs. Ita Aber.
- Notes
- Alpha-numeric designations: P01/12, P93/08, and subsequent additions (ongoing to P15/04.). Associated material: Clippings by and about Canadian-born journalist Sam Orbaum (1956-2002), a Jerusalem Post humour columnist (donated by Ita Aber and filed under his name.) General note: The biography is from an article published in The Artists Proof, Spring 2001.
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Canadian Jewish Archives
Images
JEWISH IMMIGRANT AID SERVICES (JIAS)
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn16328
- Collection
- JEWISH IMMIGRANT AID SERVICES (JIAS)
- Description Level
- Fonds
- Material Type
- textual record
- graphic material
- sound recording
- moving images
- Physical Description
- Env. 376.3 metres of textual records. - 3250 photographs. - 123 sound elements. - 9 videodiscs.
- Fonds No.
- I0037
- Date
- 1920-1989.
- Collection
- JEWISH IMMIGRANT AID SERVICES (JIAS)
- Description Level
- Fonds
- Material Type
- textual record
- graphic material
- sound recording
- moving images
- Physical Description
- Env. 376.3 metres of textual records. - 3250 photographs. - 123 sound elements. - 9 videodiscs.
- Date
- 1920-1989.
- Fonds No.
- I0037
- History / Biographical
- Jewish Immigrant Aid Services was established during the first Plenary Assembly of the Canadian Jewish Congress, in 1919. The need to settle Jewish post-World War I immigrants became apparent at this time, but the community organizations established in part for this purpose, such as the Baron de Hirsch Institute, were overwhelmed by the flow of Jews into Montreal and the rest of Canada. Thus JIAS, an organization devoted solely to helping immigrants, was founded. Since 1919, Jewish immigrants to Canada have depended on this organization during their period of adjustment to this country. The JIAS intervenes with the government on behalf of current and prospective immigrants, helps to locate housing and jobs, and organizes language and citizenship classes. JIAS assists new immigrants in following the proper application procedures, provides counselling, and offers a directional service to community resources. JIAS also makes submissions to the authorities on all matters affecting Jewish immigration to Canada, jointly with the Canadian Jewish Congress. The national office moved from Montreal to Toronto in the 1990s. In 2008 the Montreal office of JIAS merged with two other Jewish social service agencies under the name Agence Ometz.
- Notes
- Alpha-numeric designations: MA 4.General note: As of 2017 the total amount of textual records in the JIAS collection is 376.3 metres, of which 66.3 metres are administrative records and 310 metres are case files. 192 metres of the case files are preserved in off-site storage.
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Canadian Jewish Archives
Images
Congregation Shaar Hashomayim's Programs for Elderly People
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn44497
- Collection
- CONGREGATION SHAAR HASHOMAYIM MUSEUM AND ARCHIVES
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- moving images
- Physical Description
- Video : English : duration: 28.67 seconds
- Fonds No.
- SH-01; 222
- Date
- 2001
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- moving images
- Physical Description
- Video : English : duration: 28.67 seconds
- Date
- 2001
- Fonds No.
- SH-01
- Item No.
- 222
- Physical Condition
- Excellent
- Notes
- "The Open Gate" is a weekly socializing program for the elderly, organized by the Congregation.
- Places
- Montreal, Quebec, Canada
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Congregation Shaar Hashomayim Museum and Archives
Images
YouTube
Congregation Shaar Hashomayim's Programs for Elderly People
https://www.youtube.com/embed/fZ6e_Ipxxtc
Reverend David Wolfson speaks of activities at the Congregation Shaar Hashomayim
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn44502
- Collection
- CONGREGATION SHAAR HASHOMAYIM MUSEUM AND ARCHIVES
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- moving images
- Physical Description
- Video : VCR tape : English : duration: 1 minute 3.07 seconds
- Fonds No.
- SH-01; 228
- Date
- 2001
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- moving images
- Physical Description
- Video : VCR tape : English : duration: 1 minute 3.07 seconds
- Date
- 2001
- Fonds No.
- SH-01
- Item No.
- 228
- Physical Condition
- Excellent
- Notes
- Reverend Wolfson organizes weddings, Bar Mitzvahs, etc. at the Shaar Hashomayim. This video contains a short interview with a masgiach (kashruth inspector) in training and a glimpse of a musical group for youths.
- Places
- Montreal, Quebec, Canada
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Congregation Shaar Hashomayim Museum and Archives
Images
YouTube
Reverend David Wolfson speaks of activities at the Congregation Shaar Hashomayim
https://www.youtube.com/embed/ZYfCBkYrZTg
New Torah Covers for Congregation Shaar Hashomayim
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn44506
- Collection
- CONGREGATION SHAAR HASHOMAYIM MUSEUM AND ARCHIVES
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- moving images
- Physical Description
- Video : VCR tape : English : duration: 1 min 19 sec
- Fonds No.
- SH-01; 313
- Date
- 1995
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- moving images
- Physical Description
- Video : VCR tape : English : duration: 1 min 19 sec
- Date
- 1995
- Fonds No.
- SH-01
- Item No.
- 313
- Physical Condition
- Good
- Notes
- A video showing the 14 needlepoint Torah covers that were made by women from the Shaar Hashomayim in honour of the synagogue’s 150th anniversary. The covers were made for a Jewish artists competition organized by Mrs. Millie Lande.
- Places
- Montreal, Quebec, Canada
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Congregation Shaar Hashomayim Museum and Archives
Images
YouTube
New Torah Covers for Congregation Shaar Hashomayim
https://www.youtube.com/embed/WJRnbik1mvA
Presentation of a Coat of Arms for Congregation Shaar Hashomayim
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn44507
- Collection
- CONGREGATION SHAAR HASHOMAYIM MUSEUM AND ARCHIVES
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- moving images
- Physical Description
- Video : VCR tape : English : duration: 1 min 21 sec
- Fonds No.
- SH-01; 315
- Date
- 1995
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- moving images
- Physical Description
- Video : VCR tape : English : duration: 1 min 21 sec
- Date
- 1995
- Fonds No.
- SH-01
- Item No.
- 315
- Physical Condition
- Good
- Notes
- In this video the Shaar Hashomayim receives a coat of arms.
- Places
- Montreal, Quebec, Canada
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Congregation Shaar Hashomayim Museum and Archives
Images
YouTube
Presentation of a Coat of Arms for Congregation Shaar Hashomayim
https://www.youtube.com/embed/tjzDMBSzkkA
Artist Terry Lightman
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn44508
- Collection
- CONGREGATION SHAAR HASHOMAYIM MUSEUM AND ARCHIVES
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- moving images
- Physical Description
- Video : DV tape : English : duration: 1 min 22 sec
- Fonds No.
- SH-01; 320
- Date
- 2002
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- moving images
- Physical Description
- Video : DV tape : English : duration: 1 min 22 sec
- Date
- 2002
- Fonds No.
- SH-01
- Item No.
- 320
- Physical Condition
- Excellent
- Notes
- Interview with artist Terry Lightman, a long-time curator of the Congregation Shaar Hashomayim Museum and Library. Many of her works are shown in this video clip.
- Places
- Montreal, Quebec, Canada
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Congregation Shaar Hashomayim Museum and Archives
Images
YouTube
Artist Terry Lightman
https://www.youtube.com/embed/wJtC9LLn6DQ
Goldberg, Peter - Oral History of a Holocaust Survivor
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn60297
- Collection
- WITNESS TO HISTORY COLLECTION (MHMC-02)
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- moving images
- Physical Description
- 00:59:33
- Collection
- WITNESS TO HISTORY COLLECTION (MHMC-02)
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- moving images
- Physical Description
- 00:59:33
- Language
- English
- Notes
- Peter Goldberg was born on May 12, 1919 in Paberze, a village approximately 20 km from Vilnius, Lithuania (Vilna, Poland), where he and his nine siblings were raised in an orthodox Jewish home. The Russian Army occupied Vilnius in 1939 until the Germans took over in 1941. Peter recalls the many restrictions placed on Jews, including the wearing of yellow stars, forced labour, and the establishment of the Jewish ghetto. Peter and his wife had to stay in the ghetto for about seven months. They remained there, often in hiding, until it was liquidated by the German Gestapo. Then, for ten months, they paid to live in a Polish house approximately 10 km from the Ghetto. Peter was taken to do forced labour as a coal digger in Bielawaka ? concentration camp. Once the camp was liquidated, he and his wife had to return to the ghetto in Vilnius for a second time until it closed in 1943. They spent about eight months in the Vilnius HKP-562 concentration camp where Peter was forced to work as a mechanic. The Germans liquidated the camp in July 1944. After liberation by the Russian Army, he and his wife returned home. He knew that most of his family had been killed immediately upon arrival in the ghetto in Vilnius (Vilna). After the war, Peter worked as a baker and a stock keeper of food for the Russian Army. When the borders opened in 1957, Peter, his wife and their daughter immigrated to Poland. They lived there until December 1958 when they decided to immigrate to Canada, as Peter’s sister was living in Montreal. Once here, Peter worked as a butcher and manager of a meat store.
- Accession No.
- WTH-050
- Name Access
- Goldberg, Peter
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
Images
YouTube
Goldberg, Peter - Oral History of a Holocaust Survivor
https://www.youtube.com/embed/kd0CWEt_Qrc
Rosen, Chaim - Oral History of a Holocaust Survivor and WWII Veteran
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn60298
- Collection
- WITNESS TO HISTORY COLLECTION (MHMC-02)
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- moving images
- Physical Description
- 01:44:56
- Collection
- WITNESS TO HISTORY COLLECTION (MHMC-02)
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- moving images
- Physical Description
- 01:44:56
- Language
- English
- Notes
- Chiam Rosen was born on December 7, 1918 in the small Polish town of Tomaszow Mazowiecki, to a father who was a ritual slaughterer/cantor/Hebrew teacher and a mother who was a housewife. When he was two, he moved to Magdeberg, Germany. His two brothers were born there, one in 1920 and the other in 1924. He began school in Madgeberg and finished, after another move, in Braunschweig, where he lived until the war broke out. In 1933 he and his brother were kicked out of school. His father took him to a cabinet-maker, where he became an apprentice. He worked there for 3.5 years. When he turned 18 he realized Germany was not the place for him and he obtained a Pioneer Certificate. He was given a certificate to go to Palestine. When he left in July 1937 he was seeing his parents for the last time. He made his way to Palestine via Italy. When he arrived he joined a kibbutz, building defense walls before working as a mounted police defending the towns. Eventually he joined the Palestinian army, was trained under the British army, and served in artillery groups. He was sent to Italy and there he received news of his brothers, both of whom had also joined the army, and his parents, who had been transported to the Warsaw (or Lodz) ghetto. Once the war was over Chiam went from Italy to Austria to Germany and Belgium, helping prisoners from DP camps, bringing food, transporting supplies and trying to help orphaned children. He visited Bergen-Belsen, not as part of the army but with a group of people who wanted to help. Eventually he was discharged and returned to Palestine. On the way he was reunited with one of his brothers. In Palestine he helped in preparation for the Israeli War of Independence, but did not fight in it. He and his brothers contacted their uncle who was living in Montreal, Canada. They were granted visas and emigrated to Montreal. Eventually they moved to Quebec City to work in the scrap metal business. Chiam married in 1954 in Canada. They separated after 40 years with no children.
- Accession No.
- WTH-060
- Name Access
- Rosen, Chaim
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
Images
Kipman, Stella - Oral History of a Holocaust Survivor
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn60299
- Collection
- WITNESS TO HISTORY COLLECTION (MHMC-02)
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- moving images
- Physical Description
- 01:41:29
- Collection
- WITNESS TO HISTORY COLLECTION (MHMC-02)
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- moving images
- Physical Description
- 01:41:29
- Language
- English
- Notes
- Stella Kipman (née Ginsburg) was born on January 14, 1918 in Slomniki, Poland. Her family moved to Krakow where she completed her education. After marrying, Stella and her husband moved to Sosnowiec. In 1939, about a year and a half after marrying and moving to Sosnowiec, the war broke out and Stella returned to her father in Krakow. She went back to Sosnowiec where she got a job in social service. Stella and her husband were forced to live in the Sosnowiec ghetto; she speaks of how difficult life was during this time, including the many restrictions and being forced to wear a band and yellow star. Between 1943 and 1944, Stella was sent to Katowice labour camp. In January 1944, Stella and her older sister obtained false papers and went to Berlin where she stayed with a housekeeper. However, she was soon discovered and put into prison by German Gestapo to work for several months. Afterwards, they sent her to Birkenau-Auschwitz to clean rooms and cook. In January 1945, Stella and many other camp inmates were sent by transport to a Polish barrack in Ravensbrück. Six weeks before liberation by the French Army, Stella lost consciousness due to a terrible fever – the Polish women in her barracks took care of her because she was the wife of a Polish officer. After liberation, she was taken to a hospital to recover and later returned to Sosnowiec by train. In December 1945, she was flown by a military plane to Paris and from there went to Freiburg for 18 months. Stella and her husband immigrated to Canada in 1951, followed by her only surviving sister.
- Accession No.
- WTH-074
- Name Access
- Kipman, Stella
- Places
- S?omniki, Poland, Europe
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
Images
Hiess, Anna - Oral History of a Holocaust Survivor
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn60300
- Collection
- WITNESS TO HISTORY COLLECTION (MHMC-02)
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- moving images
- Physical Description
- 01:04:39
- Collection
- WITNESS TO HISTORY COLLECTION (MHMC-02)
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- moving images
- Physical Description
- 01:04:39
- Language
- English
- Notes
- Anna Hiess (née Fliesser) was born in Vienna, Austria on April 12, 1914. Her family moved to Lemberg in 1918, after Anna’s father’s death. They were an assimilated family and did not experience discrimination before 1938, with the exception that they could not study wherever and whatever they wanted. Anna married in 1938. She left Lemberg with her husband in 1941, shortly after the German invasion. They went to Hrubieszow where they stayed a few months under false identity, leaving when people started to suspect they were Jews. They moved to Garwolin by train where they were helped by Stanislaw Piaskowski and the underground that provided them with a place to live and ration cards. Anna’s job was to conceal the forbidden radio while her husband worked in the income tax department. After the war, they moved to Lodz and started a new life with their son. The family immigrated to Israel in 1950 because Anna’s husband was in danger since he got involved in politics. They were disappointed when they arrived in Tel-Aviv and felt hostility coming from Jews who had lived in Israel since before the war. They decided to immigrate to Montreal in 1952, sponsored by a Canadian family they never met.
- Accession No.
- WTH-086
- Name Access
- Hiess, Anna
- Places
- Vienna, Austria , Europe
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
Images
Roessler, Karl-Georg - Oral History of a Holocaust Survivor
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn60301
- Collection
- WITNESS TO HISTORY COLLECTION (MHMC-02)
- Description Level
- Item
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- 01:41:05
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- Karl-Georg Roessler was born in Crimmitschau, Germany on September 1, 1923. He and his sister grew up in a secular home; only his mother was Jewish. After the Nazis passed the restrictive Anti-Jewish Nuremberg laws in 1935, his father divorced his mother. Karl and his older sister stayed with their mother and were considered as Jews. In September 1940, Karl's maternal grandmother was deported to Plauen where she had to live in the Jewish ghetto. Karl and his mother joined her there. His grandmother and mother were later sent to Theresienstadt. On April 4, 1944, Karl was deported to a labour camp in Valognes, France, to do heavy manual labour at a construction site. In June 1944, Karl escaped the camp and stayed in hiding in the outskirts of Paris. He returned to Germany where he continued living in hiding with a family whose daughter would later become his wife. Karl returned to his home town but was arrested by the German police and placed in solitary confinement in the district prison for eight weeks. Shortly after, the American Army arrived. After liberation, Karl traveled to Theresienstadt by motor bike to reunite with his mother and together they returned to Plauen. After the war, Karl became politically active against Communism; as a result, he was blacklisted and had to escape from East Germany to West Germany where he was employed by the American Military Government. Karl and his family came to Canada in 1960 as he was offered a position in Montreal as the president of a company. He was later transferred to California for ten years.
- Accession No.
- WTH-090
- Name Access
- Roessler, Karl-Georg
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
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Calderon, Leon - Oral History of a Holocaust Survivor
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn60302
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- 02:02:03
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- 02:02:03
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- Leon Calderon was born in 1926 in Salonika, Greece, to a family of Yugoslavian origins. He had four siblings who, along with his parents, perished in Auschwitz in 1943, except for one brother who died in the Warsaw ghetto. After the war broke out in Greece, he lived in Salonika in the ghetto until April 1943, when he was deported to Auschwitz-Birkenau. He was there for about six months. In October 1943, he was transferred to the Warsaw ghetto, where he had to clean up and collect bricks after the uprising. In June 1944 the Russians were approaching, and after a five-day death march, he was transferred by train to Dachau, where he remained for a week. Then he was transferred to the Mildorf labor camp in Germany, where he worked on the construction of a tunnel until April 1945. With the American Army approaching, they were put on a train, which was also bombed, and were finally liberated on April 30, 1945 by the Americans. Leon stayed for a week in a DP camp near Munich, then for a month in the Landsberg DP camp. He returned to Salonika until the Greek civil war began in 1949. He moved to Israel, returning to Salonika in 1953 to obtain visas for Canada. In August 1955, he came to Canada by boat. He got married and he had two daughters. He worked as a salesman and manager of a store, and owned his own company until 1975.
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- WTH-161
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- Calderon, Leon
- Places
- Salonika, Greece, Europe
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
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Gillatt, Eva - Oral History of a Holocaust Survivor and WWII Veteran
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn60303
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- 03:41:06
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- Eva Gillatt (née Oppenheim) was born on May 21, 1920 in Charlottenburg, Berlin, Germany. Her father died of leukemia when she was a child. Eva recalls having had a privileged childhood. Despite having no religious education, she was conscious of her Jewishness, especially with increasing political upheavals and the passing of the antisemitic Nuremberg laws of 1935. After a year at an orthodox Jewish boarding school, Eva spent a year as an employee at a Deaf and Dumb hall in Weinssensee, Germany. In 1937, she went to Harzburg to work. From there she left for Neuendorf in April 1938, where she trained on a farm run by a Jewish organization. Eva recounts that on Kristallnacht about 12 Nazis came on motorbikes and threatened to burn the farm down. They took everybody over the age of 20 to Sachsenhausen concentration camp. Eva’s brother was sent to England on the Kindertransport in May 1939. On July 4, 1939, Eva went by ship to the United Kingdom to live with her uncle in London; she recounts an unhappy and isolated period, working hard under her uncle and being poorly treated. The war was just beginning at this point. For 16 weeks, Eva was stationed in an air raid shelter. When Eva turned 21, she left her uncle to train as a cook, and in May 1941, began working in this capacity for the British Army in Lancaster. It was there that she met and ultimately married the Sergeant of the 4th Allied Volunteer Platoon. They lived in Manchester for over 16 years and had three children. During the last years of the war, Eva found out that her mother had been sent by transport to Auschwitz where, Eva believes, she was killed within a day or two. Between 1954 and 1960, Eva worked in various clerical positions. For over twenty years she was an ad representative for several newspapers in Manchester and then moved on to become a hospital car driver. She currently works as a cook for an agency that helps less fortunate people. While Eva does not talk about her experiences during the war to friends, she was pleased to have had the opportunity to tell her personal story.
- Accession No.
- WTH-200
- Name Access
- Gillatt, Eva
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
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Feist, Ursula - Oral History of a Holocaust Survivor
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn60304
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- 01:41:00
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- Ursula Feist (née Erber) was born on June 2, 1921 in Berlin, Germany. Before Hitler, Ursula, her parents and sister, Brigitta, lived in a comfortable economic status. Ursula had a good educational background. Her father was very observant and Ursula discusses how she might have turned out more observant in her life today, had she not been forced by her father to go to synagogue. With the rise of Nazism, Ursula describes living in perpetual fear from 1933 until 1939. Beginning in 1934, the family experienced financial hardship and Ursula went to a commercial college to learn how to type and take short hand. She found employment at an Italian agency from March until November 1938 -- Kristallnacht. Ursula describes Kristallnacht as the most horrible thing: she remembers coming down in the morning and seeing windows smashed and synagogues burning. By the beginning of 1939, many Jews were leaving Germany. Ursula obtained tickets to Shanghai from the Italian agency for her parents and sister. For herself, she made arrangements to go to England to stay with a longtime pen pal. On May 19, 1939, two weeks before her eighteenth birthday she got onto a children's transport to England. Her parents left for Shanghai in June 1939. She remembers the SS coming on the train and emptying out suitcases to find anything of value. In England, Ursula stayed with the Wicker family near Chester in North England. The family treated Ursula like one of their own. She had to adjust to a life where she did not have to worry. Ursula went to Birmingham and trained as a nurse. In May 1940, she was interned at a woman’s camp on the Isle of Man for one year. The British government had no way of knowing who was a Nazi sympathizer so they interned everybody. While in the camp, she met a woman from Munich who was the aunt of her future husband, David. Ursula worked as a waitress in the Cumberland Hotel and David came and asked her if he could take her to the theatre. Later she got a monitoring service job at the BBC. She listened to Hitler's speeches and had to translate and transcribe them. She and David married in 1943. David wanted to join the Commandos when he learnt that his mother was killed but instead he got into the intelligence corps and then the pioneer corps. Their first son, Anthony, was born in London in 1948. By this time, communication with Ursula’s parents had stopped. They had been living under Japanese control in Shanghai and under terrible circumstances. After the war they immigrated to Minneapolis, United States. Her father had angina and died. Later, her mother and sister moved to New York. Life in post-war England was difficult due to very high taxes. In 1951, Ursula and David came to Canada in search of employment. They did not go to the United States because they were afraid that their son would be drafted. Their second son, Daniel was born in Montreal in 1954. Ursula worked in the Neurological Hospital and then the Royal Victoria Hospital as an administrative assistant to the chief of surgery. Her children are both married and she has two grandchildren from each son. Ursula talks about the fact that she is still homesick for London; they visit very often and have very close friends there. She has also been back to Berlin several times.
- Accession No.
- WTH-267
- Name Access
- Feist, Ursula
- Places
- Berlin, Germany, Europe
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
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Feist, Ursula - Oral History of a Holocaust Survivor
https://www.youtube.com/embed/oAO-Kk5yy_8
Jegergarn, Chaim - Oral History of a Holocaust Survivor
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn60305
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- 01:59:14
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- Chaim Jegergarn was born in Janow Lubelski, Poland in 1912. He and his seven siblings were raised in a poor family. He did not go to school. At only ten years old, he learned to be a tailor. In 1935, he served in the Polish Army for 18 months. He got married in 1937. After Kristallnacht, he escaped with his family to Russia. From there they went to Lvov, Ukraine (Lwow, Poland), where Chaim registered to go to work in Selovalika ?, Russia, where he worked as a tailor. There, they were bombed so they moved by train to a small place in the woods near Yaroslavl. In 1941, he moved to Kozyatyn, Uzbekistan, to work in a factory. Chaim obtained a Russian pass and moved near Tashkent, where he stayed for nearly three years working in the coal mines. He contracted typhus and later worked as tailor in a factory. In 1945, he left Tashkent to return by train to Szczecin, Poland. Except for two brothers, the rest of his family in Poland perished during the Holocaust. From 1946 to 1948, Chaim stayed in a DP camp in Eschwege, Germany. In July 1948, Chaim came to Montreal with his wife, son, daughter, and brother in an effort to begin a new life.
- Accession No.
- WTH-290
- Name Access
- Jegergarn, Chaim
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
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Rozmovits, Dora - Oral History of a Holocaust Survivor
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn60306
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- 03:18:29
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- Dora Rozmovits was born on August 14, 1928 in Kalnik, Ukraine (Czechoslovakia). The family moved to Karlovy Vary, Czech Republic, where she remembers a peaceful upbringing with her seven siblings in an orthodox Jewish home. By 1938, Dora recalls an uneasiness in the air as changes began; Dora escaped to Prague and returned back home to Kalnik. In April 1944, Dora and her family were rounded up along with other members of the community and forced to stay about two weeks in a ghetto outside Munkacs. From there, they were taken on a two-day train ride with no food or water, and no knowledge as to their destination. They arrived in Auschwitz; this was the last time Dora would see her mother. They were hauled into barracks and stripped of their clothes and everything they owned. From Auschwitz, Dora was transferred to Stutthof concentration camp for two weeks where she endured brutal treatment, terrible living conditions and daily appels. She was then sent to work in the forests, digging trenches for soldiers. After a couple of weeks of extreme physical labour, she was forced on a two week march to a camp near Pruszcz Gdansk, Poland. After another final transfer to the area of Gdansk, a typhoid fever epidemic broke out during which her eldest sister became very ill. Dora hid her sister during this time; after about a month, Dora herself contracted the disease, but fortunately recovered by the time of liberation. The Russians arrived on March 26th, 1945. Dora had been working in a sick camp despite only being 15 years old. From here, Dora returned to Gdansk with her sister and then to Kalnik where they were reunited with their father, two brothers, and two sisters. They found out that their mother and two brothers died. The family moved back to Karlovy Vary and Dora moved to Marseille, France, to volunteer for Hagana, an Israeli underground. After meeting her husband, Dora moved to Israel where she got a job working in a kitchen. She was reunited with her husband who at the time was in the army. Dora found a job at a Mental Hospital in Carmel. She gave birth to her first son in Israel. Dora and her family decided to go to Canada as her stepmother’s brother lived in Montreal. In Dora’s closing statement, she thanks God for her children and husband, and wishes that no one should ever have to experience what she went through.
- Accession No.
- WTH-295
- Name Access
- Rozmovits, Dora
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
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Exiner, Robert - Oral History of a Holocaust Survivor
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn60307
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- 01:37:33
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- Robert Exiner was born on March 2, 1916 in Berlin, Germany. His father was in the clothing business and his mother helped him. They were a middle-class family and lived well. Robert was an only child, though he had an older brother who died before he was born. His family was not strictly religious; however, he had had a bar mitzvah. Robert identified as a German who happened to be Jewish. He attended a private preschool for three years before moving to a French gymnasium that focused on Liberal Arts. He graduated when he was 18, in 1934. After graduating he could not go to university since he was Jewish. A textile college accepted him, not for the regular two-year course but for the six-month course. He did four. He was not ready to leave Germany. During this time his father died. Robert was a member of the Iron Front, a Nationalist organization. They were dissolved, but carried on illegally for a year in Upper Silesia before being caught. He spent a night in an SS cell after which he decided to leave Germany. He had had a visa to Australia, but that had expired. He managed to get another one and left for Australia in July 1938. He spent three months in Sydney before moving on to Melbourne, where he found nightshift work in a ribbon factory. When the war broke out in 1939 he volunteered for and joined the army. Eventually he was made an assistant in the medical hut, trained for the medical core, and then ran a depot specializing in the prevention of venereal diseases. After the war, Robert found work running a factory, handling the business side. He stayed there until he retired at age 70. During this time he married a dancer/dance teacher who ran a dance studio. They had two sons. He regrets not having been able to go to university when he was younger and pursue an academic career, but he did obtain his M.A. at the age of 76. Now he gives lectures in Melbourne, volunteers for a classical music station and plays the recorder twice a week with difference groups.
- Accession No.
- WTH-321
- Name Access
- Exiner, Robert
- Places
- Berlin, Germany, Europe
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
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