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God's Mercy & Judgment: Sermon preached on Day of Thanksgiving for the departure of cholera - manuscript.
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn38517
- Collection
- DE SOLA, Alexander Abraham
- Description Level
- File
- Material Type
- textual record
- Fonds No.
- P0048; MC 13-001-016
- Date
- [ca. 1850]
- Collection
- DE SOLA, Alexander Abraham
- Description Level
- File
- Material Type
- textual record
- Date
- [ca. 1850]
- Fonds No.
- P0048
- File No.
- MC 13-001-016
- Notes
- The sermon includes an excerpt from a Christian writer suggesting that the practice of Ancient Jewish Law (ablutions, personal cleanliness) spared Jewish lives during the outbreak. The date is likely to be Thursday, January 3rd, 1850.
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Canadian Jewish Archives
Documents
Images
DE SOLA, Clarence and Meldola
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn268
- Collection
- DE SOLA, Clarence and Meldola
- Description Level
- Fonds
- Material Type
- textual record
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- 0.3 metres of textual records. - 6 other fixed images.
- Fonds No.
- P0164
- Date
- 1860?-1922.
- Scope and Content
- The fonds consists of: 6 daguerrotypes of Abraham and Mrs. Esther (Joseph) de Sola and Meldola, Clarence as children; diaries of Clarence de Sola 1873-1875, 1879, 1880, 1904, 1919 (microfilmed at NAC in the 1970s); a scrapbook with photos, clippings, hair of Mrs. de Sola; original birth and marriag…
- Collection
- DE SOLA, Clarence and Meldola
- Description Level
- Fonds
- Material Type
- textual record
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- 0.3 metres of textual records. - 6 other fixed images.
- Scope and Content
- The fonds consists of: 6 daguerrotypes of Abraham and Mrs. Esther (Joseph) de Sola and Meldola, Clarence as children; diaries of Clarence de Sola 1873-1875, 1879, 1880, 1904, 1919 (microfilmed at NAC in the 1970s); a scrapbook with photos, clippings, hair of Mrs. de Sola; original birth and marriage documents, memorabilia including war medals of Mrs. Maude de Sola; file of correspondence 1870-1920, including 3 envelopes addressed to Rev. A. de Sola (1870-1873), a letter from "Mummy" in Cleveland (1901), a letter from Clarence to his aunts (1901), 3 letters from Clarence to his wife, (1914 and 1920, with envelopes), and one letter to son Rafael, 1914. The three letters dated August 1914 are written from Montreal and make reference to the outbreak of WWI.
- Date
- 1860?-1922.
- Fonds No.
- P0164
- History / Biographical
- Born in Montreal on August 15, 1858, Clarence de Sola was the third son of the renowned Victorian rabbi Rev. Alexander Abraham de Sola of the Shearith Israel synagogue of Montreal. He married Belle Maud Goldsmith of Cleveland in 1901. He was a contractor and served in the consular service as well as a leader of the social and communal life of Canadian Jewry, a founder and long-time president of the Federation Societies of Canada; and the author of numerous articles on Jewish history. He died in May 1920. His father Abraham de Sola was the first Jewish professor to teach Hebrew at McGill University, was rabbi of the Shearith Israel, Montreal's oldest congregation from 1848 until his death. Meldola gained widespread recognition as the cantor at the Shearith Israel.
- Custodial History
- The documents are on permanent loan from Ms. Gillian Mosely, in May 1998 (The documents were placed on permanent loan in May, 1998). These items belonged to Lady Jessica Mellor, who had the diaries microfilmed for the National Archives of Canada. Gillian Mosely, her niece, took care of her and received these items upon her death.
- Notes
- Alpha-numeric designations: P98/01.
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Canadian Jewish Archives
Documents
Images
LORD READING YACHT CLUB = LRYC.
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn80
- Collection
- LORD READING YACHT CLUB = LRYC.
- Description Level
- Fonds
- Physical Description
- Env. 6 plans. - 3.6 metres of textual records. - Env. 500 photographs.
- Fonds No.
- I0078
- Date
- [1946-1999], one document 1869 (copy).
- Scope and Content
- The document portion of the fonds consists of historical essays, minutes, membership lists and ledgers, by-laws, rules of the Club, and correspondence (including founding documents such as letters patent and correspondence with representatives of the Duke of Edinburgh and the Canadian Federal gover…
- Collection
- LORD READING YACHT CLUB = LRYC.
- Description Level
- Fonds
- Physical Description
- Env. 6 plans. - 3.6 metres of textual records. - Env. 500 photographs.
- Scope and Content
- The document portion of the fonds consists of historical essays, minutes, membership lists and ledgers, by-laws, rules of the Club, and correspondence (including founding documents such as letters patent and correspondence with representatives of the Duke of Edinburgh and the Canadian Federal government). Also included are documents related to negotiations about original site building and later renovations. Most of the documentary portion of the collection was preserved by Henry Vineberg in black 3-ring binders. The approximately 1550 print photos, negatives, and slides (ca. 300) in the fonds depict Club activities, boats and boating events, the Club buildings and grounds through time, and persons associated with the Club. The majority of the photos were originally arranged in albums and were inter-filed the paper based records but are now housed in two distinct photo-boxes. The plans in the fonds show renovations and locations of buildings. The fonds also includes a few personal items about Henry C. Vineberg, Club archivist and historian. Of particular interest is a framed replica of the ketuba (marriage contract) of his grandparents, dated 1863 and prepared in Montreal by Rabbi Abraham de Sola.
- Date
- [1946-1999], one document 1869 (copy).
- Fonds No.
- I0078
- History / Biographical
- The Lord Reading Yacht Club was founded by a group of Jewish Montrealers at a time when Jews were not welcome in boating clubs around the Island of Montreal. The club founders encountered initial opposition from the City of Beaconsfield, where it was located. Henry Vineberg, long-time member and self-appointed archivist of the club, made documenting the Club's history and activities the mission of his later years. His archival collection included documents and photographs from the earliest days of the organization. The Archives of the LRYC were housed in his Snowdon-area home in Montreal until his death, in November 1999.
- Custodial History
- The Lord Reading Yacht Club Archives were in the possession of Club archivist and historian Henry C. Vineberg until his death in November 1999. At that time they were donated, with the permission of the Club, to CJC Archives under the authority of his executor and friend, Jack Stein
- Notes
- P99/11.The fonds is not yet processed.
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Canadian Jewish Archives
Documents
Images
DAVIS, Amanda Esther
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn61577
- Collection
- Canadian Jewish Congress organizational records
- Description Level
- File
- Material Type
- textual record
- Fonds No.
- CJC0001; ZB (General Documentation: Personalia)
- Date
- 1885
- Description Level
- File
- Material Type
- textual record
- Date
- 1885
- Fonds No.
- CJC0001
- Series No.
- ZB (General Documentation: Personalia)
- Notes
- Typed transcript copy of the act of Parliament granting a divorce to Amanda Esther Davis from Joseph de Sola. File characteristics: Originals. Montreal-related material.
- Name Access
- DAVIS, Amanda Esther
- Subjects
- Amanda Esther DAVIS
- Places
- Montreal
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Canadian Jewish Archives
Documents
E. Phillip Schachter.
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn48210
- Collection
- E. Phillip Schachter.
- Description Level
- Fonds
- Material Type
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- Env. 807 photographs. - 0.02 textual records. - 30 artefacts.
- Fonds No.
- P0242
- Date
- 1900-2006.
- Scope and Content
- The documents portion of the collection consists of a file of correspondence sent home from overseas by serviceman E. Phillip Schachter, in 1945, as well as his 2006 obituary, with a brief biography written by his son. There are four family photograph albums, respectively containing 310, 232, 56, a…
- Collection
- E. Phillip Schachter.
- Description Level
- Fonds
- Material Type
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- Env. 807 photographs. - 0.02 textual records. - 30 artefacts.
- Scope and Content
- The documents portion of the collection consists of a file of correspondence sent home from overseas by serviceman E. Phillip Schachter, in 1945, as well as his 2006 obituary, with a brief biography written by his son. There are four family photograph albums, respectively containing 310, 232, 56, and 209 photographs, as well as a few clippings, ephemeral items, cards, notes, and lists. The album chronologically span the years 1900-1954, with the two earliest albums respectively documenting the families of Phillip Schachter's father and mother, Harry Aaron Schachter and Ada Ethel Haid, and the subsequent one covering the early years of Phillip Schachter's parents' life together. These earlier albums include pictures in uniform from the first World War. The last album includes images from Phillip Schachter's service in the World War II and his own marriage and family after the war. The locations of the subjects in the albums are primarily of Winnipeg and St. Andrews, Manitoba, the prairies of Saskatchewan (Readlyn Sask, about 1920), New York and California. The artifacts portion of the collection is comprised of a small wooden box holding pins, buttons and other small memorabilia (26 items), as well as a set of military dog-tags and 3 shoulder patch insignia badges
- Date
- 1900-2006.
- Fonds No.
- P0242
- History / Biographical
- E. Phillip Schachter was born on September 22, 1922 in Winnipeg. After obtaining a commerce degree in 1943 he volunteered for the Canadian army, and was sent overseas in January 1945, eight months before the end of WWII. After the war he took over the family business. In 1947, Philip married Lee Nitikman and they had four children (Harry, Seema, Miral and Saul). In time, he opened a clothing store and started a mail-order business selling western wear across Canada. In 1965, he went back to school to become a lawyer. He loved his second career as a lawyer and highly-regarded Crown prosecutor in Manitoba. Philip Schachter passed away on October 21, 2006
- Custodial History
- The collection was donated by Harry Schachter, son of E. Phillip Schachter
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Canadian Jewish Archives
Documents
Images
JACOBSON, Percy and Joe
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn200
- Collection
- JACOBSON, Percy and Joe
- Description Level
- Fonds
- Material Type
- textual record
- Physical Description
- Env. 1.03 metres of textual records.
- Fonds No.
- P0094
- Date
- 1907, 1928-1955.
- Scope and Content
- 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 progra…
- Collection
- JACOBSON, Percy and Joe
- Description Level
- Fonds
- Material Type
- textual record
- Physical Description
- Env. 1.03 metres of textual records.
- Scope and Content
- 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 newsletters and a number of newsclippings. The collection includes a portrait photo of Percy Jacobson.The Percy Jacobson papers added to this collection in 2012 includes 1 cm. of clippings about Percy Jacobson and 18 additional cm. of plays, correspondence, and various published writings by Percy Jacobson; sympathy letters and clippings about Percy Jacobson (mostly on fragile oversize scrapbook paper), one file about May Jacobson's pre-war children's bookstore, and a folder of background material clippings collected by Percy during WWII which informed his writing then.The following Percy and May Jacobson papers were donated by Janet Jacobson Smith and family in October 2013: a diary of Percy Jacobson for 1950 while in England, France and the Netherlands, on the occasion of attending a PEN conference in Edinburgh as a Canadian delegate. Two bound, handwritten diaries by May Jacobson from the years 1930 and 1950 (in one volume), and 1954; the 1930 diary covers a trip to England and Belgium with her family, and the 1950 segment covers same trip as that of her husband in 1950. The 1954 diary was written during a trip to England, the Netherlands and Scandinavia while a delegate to a NCJW conference on education in Scandinavia. One file containing 19 typed short stories by Percy Jacobson, one of which references a refugee couple who stayed with the family in 1938. A CD of all these documents in PDF format were donated by Peter Usher along with the originals.The Joe Jacobson portion of the collection includes Joe Jacobson's prewar and wartime diaries, several folders of pre-war and wartime letters, as well as 1 folder (1 cm.) of sympathy letters received by his family at the time of his death. An additional Joe Jacobson diary from 1937, and two letters by Joe Jacobson written on Twin Lake stationary in summer 1939 prior to his enlistment were donated in 2013 by Janet Jacobson Smith and family, along with digital copies made by Peter Usher.
- Date
- 1907, 1928-1955.
- Fonds No.
- P0094
- History / Biographical
- The Jacobson family of Westmount, Quebec was composed of Percy Jacobson, his wife May, and four children; Edith (m. Low-Beer, d. 2007), Joseph (Joe) d. 1942, Janet (m. Smith), and Peter, d. 1937, of leukemia. Born in 1886, Percy Jacobson was a businessman dealing in office equipment, as well as a writer and a leader in the writers' association PEN (Poets, Essayists and Novelists). From 1939 to 1949 Percy Jacobson typed a nearly daily diary in which he portrayed Montreal's view of the World War II era along with his comments on the news, overheard conversations, his son Joe's involvement in the armed forces, and the Holocaust. A prolific playwright, Jacobson often wrote on historical themes, and saw some of his plays published and performed. He was involved in various Jewish organizations, such as the CJC Rehabilitation Committee for war veterans. He died in 1952. Born in 1918, Joseph (Joe) Jacobson enlisted for service in the Royal Canadian Air Force in July 1940 after graduating from McGill University, where he played for the football team and was a member of a fraternity. He received his military training at Toronto, Ontario; Regina and Mossbank, Saskatchewan; and Rivers, Manitoba. In May 1941 he went overseas with the first large group of men trained under the British Commonwealth Air Training Plan and was attached to R.A.F. bomber squadron No. 106. Joe Jacobson notified his parents of his promotion from sergeant observer to Flight Sergeant only two days before he was reported missing and presumed dead on January 28, 1942. He had completed 23 operations on enemy targets. His Montreal friends Montague (Monty) Berger and Gerald Smith enlisted in the RCAF in 1941, and Herbert Rosenstein (Ross), also of Montreal, enlisted in the U.S. Army in 1942. These friends had met at McGill University in ca. 1937, and styled themselves as the 'Pony Club' in ca. September 1939. 'Pony' was an anagram for Preston, Ontario, and New York City, where club members were located during the winter of 1939-1940 when they began their correspondence. Joe's parents, Percy and May Jacobson, were made honorary members of the club in ca. late 1941.
- Custodial History
- The initial portion of the Percy Jacobson papers was donated in 1990 by Edith Jacobson Low-Beer, through Monty Berger. The Percy and Joe Jacobson papers donated in 2012 were donated by Janet Jacobson Smith and her children Jo-Anne and Peter Kwass; and the children of Edith Low-Beer, Susan and Jane Low-Beer, via Peter Usher. The digital versions of the Joe Jacobson papers, as well as a folder of Jacobson letters previously in the possession of Monty Berger, were donated by Peter Usher. Additions to the Joe Jacobson papers were made by the family in May and October 2013, along with additional digital copies by Peter Usher.
- Notes
- Availability of other formats: Almost the entire Joe Jacobson portion of this collection has been digitized and is available in PDF document format. Researchers are encouraged to consult these digital copies instead of the fragile originals.
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Canadian Jewish Archives
Documents
Images
Canadian Friendly League of Jewish Women, Montreal
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn78629
- Collection
- Canadian Jewish Congress organizational records
- Description Level
- File
- Material Type
- textual record
- Fonds No.
- CJC0001; ZC w; ZC w
- Date
- [ca. 1914]
- Description Level
- File
- Material Type
- textual record
- Date
- [ca. 1914]
- Fonds No.
- CJC0001
- Series No.
- ZC w
- File No.
- ZC w
- Notes
- Report booklet, written soon after the group's founding in 1913. Donated by Mrs. (Irene) Wolff. Includes photographs.
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Canadian Jewish Archives
Documents
Images
MARCUS, John Joseph
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/genealogy312
- Collection
- Canadian Jewish Congress organizational records
- Material Type
- textual record
- graphic material
- Archival / Genealogical
- Genealogy Records
- Material Type
- textual record
- graphic material
- Date of Birth
- 1912
- Date of Death
- December 28, 1943
- Place of Burial
- Bath, Somerset, England
- Cemetery
- Bath (Haycombe) Cemetery
- Age at Time of Death
- 32
- Enlistment No.
- J-9287
- Rank
- Flight Lieutenant
- Unit
- Royal Canadian Air Force
- Notes
- Flight Lieutenant John Joseph Marcus, R.C.A.F., of Montreal, was officially reported killed on active service on December 28, 1943. He was buried in Haycombe Cemetery in Bath, England. Flight Lieutenant Marcus served from 1930 to 1937 aboard the H.M.C.S. Saguenay and the H.M.C.S. Champlain with the Royal Canadian Navy and from 1937 to 1940 with the Canadian merchant marine before enlisting in the air force at Montreal in 1940. He graduated from Mountain View, Ontario, in December 1941 and was awarded the Silver Wing for heading his gunnery class. He went overseas the following month and was attached to the R.A.F. On October 1, 1942, he was promoted to flying officer.
- Subjects
- World War II
- Record Source
- Canadian Jewish Military Casualties
- Fonds No.
- CJC0001
- Archival / Genealogical
- Genealogy Records
- Repository
- Canadian Jewish Archives
Documents
Images
ROSENTHAL, William Guy : WWII serviceman.
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn38716
- Collection
- ROSENTHAL, William Guy : WWII serviceman.
- Description Level
- Fonds
- Physical Description
- Env. 0.02 metres of textual records. - 2 photographs. - 5 artefacts.
- Fonds No.
- P0237
- Date
- 1913-1943.
- Scope and Content
- Diary of William Guy Rosenthal used while fighting overseas, prior to his death in July 1943. Book of European postcards sent to the family via Scotland by W. G. Rosenthal. Newsclippings of death notice, Yiddish. Newsclippings of letters to the editor written by W.G. in Yiddish, published 1943. Fra…
- Collection
- ROSENTHAL, William Guy : WWII serviceman.
- Description Level
- Fonds
- Physical Description
- Env. 0.02 metres of textual records. - 2 photographs. - 5 artefacts.
- Scope and Content
- Diary of William Guy Rosenthal used while fighting overseas, prior to his death in July 1943. Book of European postcards sent to the family via Scotland by W. G. Rosenthal. Newsclippings of death notice, Yiddish. Newsclippings of letters to the editor written by W.G. in Yiddish, published 1943. Fragile Canadian naturalization certificate of W.G. and donor's paternal grandfather, 1913. Photograph of W.G. in military group (large rolled photo) and photo of military tombstone with Hebrew lettering. 5 medals and pin used in wearing them, as well as information about the medals. Silver band from Canada inscribed "died in his country's service", with name and death date.
- Date
- 1913-1943.
- Fonds No.
- P0237
- History / Biographical
- W. G. Rosenthal was born on November 3rd, 1922 in Montreal. Gunner Rosenthal of Montreal enlisted in the army in February 1942 and went overseas with the Royal Canadian Artillery in June of the same year. Prior to his enlistment, he had worked for the Canadian Press and had been an editor of the Fortnightly Review. In one of his last reports to the YMHA Beacon, he had written: "And when the air is once again clear from the smoky dust of fire, and when the blood of the dead and the wounded is dry, and the stench of human bodies is pure, the men who are alive after victory is achieved, with God's aid, will return... For they (the dead) shall not have fallen in vain. Not in a world where our holy sanctuaries are safe and unmolested, in a world where organizations, institutions of culture and learning and education are respected and upheld and supported. No price is too great to pay. No life too precious, to enforce our beliefs and ideals." Rosenthal was killed in action in Sicily on July 25, 1943. He was buried in the Canadian Military Cemetery at Agira. Citations received were the 1939-1945 Star, Italy Star, Defence Medal, Canadian Volunteer Service Medal with Clasp, War Medal 1939-1945, and Memorial Bar GRVI. (Excerpted from CJCCC Canadian Jewish Casualties database)
- Custodial History
- The collection was donated by Larry Rosenthal, younger brother of William Guy Rosenthal, on Dec. 22, 2010.
- Notes
- Alpha-numeric designations: P10/22.Language: Yiddish and English.General note: Testimony to Jewish sacrifices for the War Effort during WWII. Original soldier's diary from the battlefield.
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Canadian Jewish Archives
Documents
Images
SHVEMAR, Max
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/genealogy457
- Collection
- Canadian Jewish Congress organizational records
- Material Type
- textual record
- graphic material
- Archival / Genealogical
- Genealogy Records
- Material Type
- textual record
- graphic material
- Date of Birth
- 1915
- Date of Death
- June 25, 1943
- Place of Burial
- Zuid-Holland, Netherlands
- Enlistment No.
- J-22206
- Rank
- Flying Officer
- Unit
- Royal Canadian Air Force
- Notes
- Flying Officer Max Shvemar, R.C.A.F., of Montreal, was reported missing and later officially presumed dead after air operations on June 25, 1943. Flying Officer Lou Somers lost his life in the same action (see entry). Enlisting in the air force, Flying Officer Shvemar graduated as a sergeant observer from the Air Observers School at Ancienne Lorette in September 1942. After arriving overseas, he was attached to the Lion Squadron and served as a navigator aboard a Halifax bomber. A few days before he was reported missing, the aircraft in which he was flying was caught over Essen between German searchlights and anti-aircraft fire while en route to a target at Bochum.
- Subjects
- World War II
- Record Source
- Canadian Jewish Military Casualties
- Fonds No.
- CJC0001
- Archival / Genealogical
- Genealogy Records
- Repository
- Canadian Jewish Archives
Documents
Images
USHER, Moses Lewis
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/genealogy528
- Collection
- Canadian Jewish Congress organizational records
- Material Type
- textual record
- graphic material
- Archival / Genealogical
- Genealogy Records
- Material Type
- textual record
- graphic material
- Date of Birth
- 1917
- Date of Death
- March 31, 1942
- Place of Burial
- Zetland (Shetlands), England
- Cemetery
- Lerwick New Cemetery
- Age at Time of Death
- 25
- Enlistment No.
- J-15861
- Rank
- Pilot Officer
- Unit
- Royal Canadian Air Force
- Notes
- Pilot Officer Moses Lewis Usher of Montreal, Quebec, was reported killed in action overseas on March 31, 1942. He was interred in Lerwick Cemetery in the Shetlands, the first Jew to be buried in the islands. The R.A.F. placed a special aircraft at the disposal of Chaplain H.I. Alexander to enable him to reach the Shetlands to perform the burial. Pilot Officer Usher joined the McGill University Canadian Officers Training Corps at the outbreak of the war and enlisted in the air force in June 1940. He trained at the No. 1 Wireless School, Montreal, and later at Fingal, Ontario, where he received his wings in December 1940. He was sent overseas in February 1941 and was attached to a Halifax bomber squadron as a wireless air gunner. He participated in raids over enemy territory, including an attack on Nuremberg. Pilot Officer Usher was presented to King George VI and Queen Elizabeth when they visited his station. Word of his death reached his family several days before the announcement of his commission.
- Subjects
- World War II
- Record Source
- Canadian Jewish Military Casualties
- Fonds No.
- CJC0001
- Archival / Genealogical
- Genealogy Records
- Repository
- Canadian Jewish Archives
Documents
Images
NELSON, William Henry
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/genealogy346
- Collection
- Canadian Jewish Congress organizational records
- Material Type
- textual record
- graphic material
- Archival / Genealogical
- Genealogy Records
- Material Type
- textual record
- graphic material
- Date of Birth
- April 02, 1917
- Date of Death
- November 14, 1940
- Place of Burial
- Surrey, England
- Cemetery
- Runnymede Memorial
- Age at Time of Death
- 25
- Enlistment No.
- 39675
- Rank
- Flight Lieutenant
- Unit
- Royal Air Force
- Notes
- Flight Lieutenant William Nelson was from Montreal, Quebec. He was twice personally congratulated by His Majesty for his exploits as captain of a heavy bomber, received the Distinguished Flying Cross at Buckingham Palace on June 6, 1940, and thus became the first Canadian Jew to be decorated in this war. The citation read: “Nelson carried out many flights over enemy territory, always showing the greatest determination and courage. After an attack on Stavanger, Norway, he encountered a balloon barrage and sent a report to base headquarters in time to warn aircraft.” Flight Lieutenant Nelson was interested in aviation since early childhood, when he began building model airplanes, and in 1936 Flight Lieutenant Nelson worked his way across the Atlantic to join the Royal Air Force. After he overcame several obstacles to his enlistment, he was finally accepted and posted as lecturer. He was a member of the first bomber squadron to fly over German territory after the declaration of war in September 1939. He was among the airmen who raided Stavanger and the German air base at Sylt and took part in the evacuation from Dunkirk. He was listed as missing (R.A.F. Casualty List No. 52) and was presumed killed for official purposes on May 26, 1941. Biography in comic book “Jewish War Heroes,” published by CJC. See also the Jewish Virtual Library at www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/ww2/sugar4.html.
- Subjects
- World War II
- Record Source
- Canadian Jewish Military Casualties
- Fonds No.
- CJC0001
- Archival / Genealogical
- Genealogy Records
- Repository
- Canadian Jewish Archives
Documents
Images
Poale Zion
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn51669
- Collection
- Canadian Jewish Congress organizational records
- Description Level
- File
- Material Type
- textual record
- Fonds No.
- CJC0001; ZA 1918; ZA 1918-9-6
- Date
- 1918
- Description Level
- File
- Material Type
- textual record
- Date
- 1918
- Fonds No.
- CJC0001
- Series No.
- ZA 1918
- File No.
- ZA 1918-9-6
- Notes
- Includes Yiddish documentation from the Jewish Socialist Labor Party Poale-Zion of America and an English memo from the Poale Zion Palestine Committee to the Labor Party of Canada.
- Subjects
- Poale Zion
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Canadian Jewish Archives
Documents
Images
SOMERS, Lou Warren
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/genealogy490
- Collection
- Canadian Jewish Congress organizational records
- Material Type
- textual record
- graphic material
- Archival / Genealogical
- Genealogy Records
- Material Type
- textual record
- graphic material
- Date of Birth
- January 21, 1918
- Date of Death
- June 25, 1943
- Place of Burial
- Gelderland, Netherlands
- Cemetery
- Groesbeek Canadian War Cemetery
- Age at Time of Death
- 24
- Enlistment No.
- J-8219
- Rank
- Flying Officer
- Unit
- Royal Canadian Air Force
- Notes
- Flying Officer Lou Warren Somers, R.C.A.F., of Toronto, Ontario, was presumed dead following air operations overseas on June 25, 1943, from which he failed to return. Flying Officer Somers was posthumously awarded the Operational Wings. Flying Officer Max Shvemar lost his life in the same action (see entry). Flying Officer Somers had also been awarded the 1939-45 Star, the Air Crew Europe Star, the Defence Medal, the General Service Medal and the Canadian Volunteer Service Medal and Clasp. Enlisting in the air force in 1941, he trained at No. 1 Initial Training School, Aylmer, Eglinton, Portage la Prairie and at Brandon, where he won his wings. He arrived in England in late 1941 and piloted Lancaster and Halifax bombers over Germany and Italy for more than a year before he was reported missing. On the day of his last flight, his wing commander wrote to his parents that their son was due for promotion. A brother, LAC Gerald G. Somers, also served with the R.C.A.F. and was seriously wounded in active service. Dr. Lorne T. Morgan, associate professor of political economy at the University of Toronto, dedicated a pamphlet “The Permanent War” to the memory of Flying Officer Somers early in 1944. His epilogue reads: “If you’re gone, you’ve done it at the right time and in the right way… You’ll never know the anti-climax of life in the unchanged world I knew. And where you are now, you’ll never feel either economic adversity or racial discrimination. Gifted student, brilliant athlete, natural leader of your fellow men, by what right has society taken your life, on what grounds can society justify it — unless for the sake of a better world? And in the thousand deaths you must have died before you really ‘had it,’ what vision kept you going — unless it was the dream of a better world? My generation bled in vain. Have you done the same? Lou, I cannot — WILL NOT — believe it. Hail, Brother — and Farewell.”
- Subjects
- World War II
- Record Source
- Canadian Jewish Military Casualties
- Fonds No.
- CJC0001
- Archival / Genealogical
- Genealogy Records
- Repository
- Canadian Jewish Archives
Documents
Images
FRIEDMAN, Israel Joseph
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/genealogy142
- Collection
- Canadian Jewish Congress organizational records
- Material Type
- textual record
- graphic material
- Archival / Genealogical
- Genealogy Records
- Material Type
- textual record
- graphic material
- Date of Death
- October 28, 1918
- Place of Burial
- Nord, France
- Cemetery
- Romeries Communal Cemetery Extension
- Age at Time of Death
- 29
- Enlistment No.
- 3208156
- Rank
- Sapper
- Unit
- Canadian Railway Troops
- Notes
- Israel Joseph Friedman was born in Russia and lived in Medicine Hat, Alberta. He joined the Canadian Railway Troops and was killed in action on October 28, 1918, at age 29. Officer Friedman took an officers’ training course in Calgary in 1914. His grave was discovered in the French village of Romeries in a Commonwealth war graves cemetery. He was buried with military honours.
- Subjects
- World War I
- Record Source
- Canadian Jewish Military Casualties
- Fonds No.
- CJC0001
- Archival / Genealogical
- Genealogy Records
- Repository
- Canadian Jewish Archives
Documents
Images
Minutes of Meeting, First Canadian Jewish Congress (CJC)
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn51797
- Collection
- Canadian Jewish Congress organizational records
- Description Level
- File
- Material Type
- textual record
- Fonds No.
- CJC0001; ZA 1919; ZA 1919-10-5
- Date
- 1919
- Description Level
- File
- Material Type
- textual record
- Date
- 1919
- Fonds No.
- CJC0001
- Series No.
- ZA 1919
- File No.
- ZA 1919-10-5
- Notes
- Bound volume, approximately 50 pages, written by H. M. Caiserman
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Canadian Jewish Archives
Documents
Images
WERNER, Rebecca (Dresher).
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn259
- Collection
- WERNER, Rebecca (Dresher).
- Description Level
- Fonds
- Physical Description
- 0.07 metres of textual records.
- Fonds No.
- P0153
- Date
- 1920c-1985c.
- Scope and Content
- Diary, 1936 by teenage Rebecca Dresher, written after older sister's death. Photo/clippings album, including letters, photos, poems, correspondence, translations from Polish and Yiddish, about family members who were victims of Holocaust and surviving family in Israel. Includes pre-1939 corresponde…
- Collection
- WERNER, Rebecca (Dresher).
- Description Level
- Fonds
- Physical Description
- 0.07 metres of textual records.
- Scope and Content
- Diary, 1936 by teenage Rebecca Dresher, written after older sister's death. Photo/clippings album, including letters, photos, poems, correspondence, translations from Polish and Yiddish, about family members who were victims of Holocaust and surviving family in Israel. Includes pre-1939 correspondence from relatives describing conditions in Poland. Pre-WWII photos of Lipton, Sonnenfeld, Hoffer Jewish farm families and Winnipeg family, post-WWII family photos from Montreal, photos (including colour) of pastry store in East End Montreal
- Date
- 1920c-1985c.
- Fonds No.
- P0153
- History / Biographical
- Born in Poland, Rebecca Dresher Werner immigrated to Canada as a child in 1928. Her family first settled in Hoffer, Saskatchewan, a Western colony set up by the Jewish Colonization Association. An older sister moved to Winnipeg during the 1930s. After World War II, the Dresher parents moved to a farm in Repentigny, Quebec. Mrs. Werner and her husband settled in Montreal after the war and opened a pastry shop, the Patisserie Montreal, in the city's east end, at St. Catherine and Plessis Streets.
- Notes
- Alpha-numeric designations :P93/16.
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Canadian Jewish Archives
Documents
Images
Nathan Dlusy and Family
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn101077
- Collection
- Nathan Dlusy and Family
- Description Level
- Fonds
- Material Type
- textual record
- graphic material
- book
- object
- Physical Description
- 0.12 textual records. - 84 photographs. - 2 books. - 4 medals. - 8 artefacts. - 1 compact disc (CD-ROM) (photographs) (1 disc containing 76 image files (346 MB)).
- Fonds No.
- P0296
- Date
- ca. 1920-2019.
- Scope and Content
- The collection contains portraits and candid snapshots of the Dlusy family and Nathan's RCAF training, service, and gravestone, including 4 oversized framed photographs, 5 framed B&W photographs, 47 B&W photographs, 28 colour photographs, 12 artifacts, 2 cm of oversized certificates, and 10 cm of t…
- Collection
- Nathan Dlusy and Family
- Description Level
- Fonds
- Material Type
- textual record
- graphic material
- book
- object
- Physical Description
- 0.12 textual records. - 84 photographs. - 2 books. - 4 medals. - 8 artefacts. - 1 compact disc (CD-ROM) (photographs) (1 disc containing 76 image files (346 MB)).
- Scope and Content
- The collection contains portraits and candid snapshots of the Dlusy family and Nathan's RCAF training, service, and gravestone, including 4 oversized framed photographs, 5 framed B&W photographs, 47 B&W photographs, 28 colour photographs, 12 artifacts, 2 cm of oversized certificates, and 10 cm of textual materials including correspondence, and news clippings (about Nathan Dlusy, the Dlusy family's work to obtain posthumous citizenship, family obituaries, WWII veterans), and research materials accumulated by Gerald Rudick from 1942-2017 including photocopies of military service documents, news clippings, photocopies of correspondence, ID card, World War II documents, photographs, 1 disk with digital photographs of the original copies of Nathan Dlusy's military records. There are two reference books, an RCAF flight log, WWII medals, and other artifacts.
- Date
- ca. 1920-2019.
- Fonds No.
- P0296
- History / Biographical
- This collection contains materials related to the life and death of Flight Sergeant Nathan Dlusy, and the personal and professional lives of his parents and brother. Israel and Regina (nee Cynamon) Dlusniewski emigrated from Poland to Germany in 1920. In Berlin Israel worked as a tailor in his own retail shop, establishing a successful men's clothing manufacturing business which sold products in multiple German haberdasheries and department stores. Their sons Nathan (1921-1944) and Jon (1928-2022) were both born in Berlin before the family fled the anti-semitism of Nazi Germany in 1938. The family settled in Montreal where Israel obtained employment in the clothing manufacturing industry, eventually establishing Earl Clothing with a partner. Nathan followed his father into the same business, but decided to enlist in the Canadian armed forces in 1941. Initially turned down due to his lack of Canadian citizenship, Nathan successfully passed the entrance requirement examinations in 1941 and enlisted in the Canadian air force. In 1942 Nathan officially changed his name from Dlusniewski to Dlusy. Once his training was completed, he was sent to Scotland to join a coastal command squadron. While returning from a patrol mission in poor weather conditions, Nathan and the rest of the 10-person crew crashed into a mountain, killing all on board the plane. At the air base, Nathan Dlusy's funeral was organized by a Jewish air force chaplain, who was a rabbi from Glasgow, and the entire Jewish community from the nearby town attended, as documented by various photographs and news clippings in this collection. At the time of his death, Nathan Dlusy was not a Canadian citizen. His brother Jon continued to request a posthumous declaration of Canadian citizenship from the government. Nathan Dlusy's sacrifice was recognized in Quebec's National Assembly, and the House of Commons in Ottawa in 2019. The collection also includes various instances of Nathan Dlusy's name honoured through donations, the Nathan Dlusy Chapter of Hadassah, and the Nathan Dlusy Respiratory Unit at Mount Sinai Hospital in Montreal, Quebec. Jon Dlusy died at 94, in March of 2022.
- Custodial History
- The collection was donated on March 15, 2023 by Shawn Apel, estate executor for the Dlusy Family collection.
- Notes
- Alpha-numeric designations: P23/04.
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Canadian Jewish Archives
Documents
COWAN (COHEN), Henry
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/genealogy97
- Collection
- Canadian Jewish Congress organizational records
- Material Type
- textual record
- graphic material
- Archival / Genealogical
- Genealogy Records
- Material Type
- textual record
- graphic material
- Date of Birth
- December 31, 1920
- Date of Death
- April 19, 1945
- Place of Burial
- Berlin, Germany
- Cemetery
- Berlin 1939-1945 War Cemetery
- Age at Time of Death
- 24
- Enlistment No.
- J-12564
- Rank
- Flight Lieutenant
- Unit
- Royal Canadian Air Force
- Notes
- Flight Lieutenant Henry Cowan, R.C.A.F., of Trout River, Quebec, was reported missing after air operations and officially presumed dead on April 19, 1945, according to an official announcement. He enlisted in the air force in Toronto on October 8, 1941, and trained as a pilot at St. Hubert, Victoriaville, Cap de la Madeleine and St. Hubert, where he graduated on July 1, 1942, and received his commission as a pilot officer. Flight Lieutenant Cowan took advanced training at Summerside, Prince Edward Island, and went overseas in October 1942, being posted first to the Coastal Command and later to the 402 (City of Winnipeg) Squadron of the Fighter Command. He was promoted to the rank of flying officer in January 1943 and one year later was promoted to flight lieutenant. While on operations over England, he had shot down a flying bomb. After his squadron was transferred to Belgium and Holland in September 1944, he shot down a Fokke Wulf 170 in an engagement over Osnabrueck, Germany, and was credited a few days after with “one damaged and one probably destroyed” after a fight over Lingen. His plane was discovered to be missing during an air operation. He was presented with the golden wings and a special posthumous citation from R.C.A.F. headquarters, in Ottawa. Flight Lieutenant Cowan was born December 31, 1920, in Dinslaken-on-the-Niederrhein, Germany.
- Subjects
- World War II
- Record Source
- Canadian Jewish Military Casualties
- Fonds No.
- CJC0001
- Archival / Genealogical
- Genealogy Records
- Repository
- Canadian Jewish Archives
Documents
Images
ROSENTHAL, William Guy
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/genealogy408
- Collection
- Canadian Jewish Congress organizational records
- Material Type
- textual record
- graphic material
- Archival / Genealogical
- Genealogy Records
- Material Type
- textual record
- graphic material
- Date of Birth
- Nov. 3, 1922
- Date of Death
- July 25, 1943
- Place of Burial
- Agira, Sicily, Italy
- Cemetery
- Agira Canadian War Cemetery
- Age at Time of Death
- 22
- Enlistment No.
- D-131028
- Rank
- Gunner
- Unit
- Royal Canadian Artillery
- Notes
- Gunner William Guy Rosenthal, of Montreal, was killed in action in Sicily on July 25, 1943. He was buried in the Canadian Military Cemetery at Agira. Gunner Rosenthal enlisted in the army in February 1942 and went overseas with the Royal Canadian Artillery in June of the same year. Prior to his enlistment, he had worked for the Canadian Press and had been an editor of the Fortnightly Review. In one of his last reports to the YMHA Beacon, he had written: “And when the air is once again clear from the smoky dust of fire, and when the blood of the dead and the wounded is dry, and the stench of human bodies is pure, the men who are alive after victory is achieved, with God’s aid, will return… “For they (the dead) shall not have fallen in vain. Not in a world where our holy sanctuaries are safe and unmolested, in a world where organizations, institutions of culture and learning and education are respected and upheld and supported. No price is too great to pay. No life too precious, to enforce our beliefs and ideals.” Citations received were the 1939-45 Star, Italy Star, Defence Medal, Canadian Volunteer Service Medal with Clasp, War Medal 1939-45, and Memorial Bar GRVI.
- Subjects
- World War II
- Record Source
- Canadian Jewish Military Casualties
- Fonds No.
- CJC0001
- Archival / Genealogical
- Genealogy Records
- Repository
- Canadian Jewish Archives
Documents
Images
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