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Annual Banquet Programmes - Bialystoker Centre (Toronto)

https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn17534

Collection: Bialystoker Centre of Montreal Fonds

Description Level: File

Material Type: textual record

Fonds No.: 1238; 00016

Collection: Bialystoker Centre of Montreal Fonds

Description Level: File

Material Type: textual record

Fonds No.: 1238

File No.: 00016

Storage Location: JPL; 6-4E; Ctn.002

Subjects: Displaced persons; Holocaust; Bialystok (Poland); Bialystoker Center of Montreal; Bialystoker Center of Toronto

Archival / Genealogical: Archival Descriptions

Repository: Jewish Public Library Archives

Bargain Day

https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn38771

Collection: Boulkind Family Fonds

Description Level: File

Material Type: graphic material

Physical Description: 1 photograph : b&w; 10.7 x 16.5 cm [with mat]

: 017068

Date: [between 1900 and 1910]

1 image

Collection: Boulkind Family Fonds

Description Level: File

Material Type: graphic material

Physical Description: 1 photograph : b&w; 10.7 x 16.5 cm [with mat]

Date: [between 1900 and 1910]

Item No.: 017068

Storage Location: Ctn. 1062; JPL

Notes: glued onto mat

Subjects: Boulkind, Samuel; Clothing and dress.; Stores and shops.

Archival / Genealogical: Archival Descriptions

Repository: Jewish Public Library Archives

Images

Bialystoker Centre of Montreal

https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn17519

Collection: Bialystoker Centre of Montreal Fonds

Description Level: Fonds

Material Type: textual record

Physical Description: 0.5m textual material

Fonds No.: 1238

Scope and Content: Consists of financial and administrative records as well as correspondence sent and received by the organization.

Collection: Bialystoker Centre of Montreal Fonds

Description Level: Fonds

Material Type: textual record

Physical Description: 0.5m textual material

Scope and Content: Consists of financial and administrative records as well as correspondence sent and received by the organization.

Fonds No.: 1238

Storage Location: JPL

History / Biographical: The Centre was officially established in January 1944, the Women's Committee was established in the spring of the same year. Membership consisted of 300 people. The aim of the Centre was to provide help to Bialystok survivors of the War. Contacted through newspapers in Europe the survivors wrote to the Centre, identifying themselves as Bialystokers. Every letter was answered and packages of food, clothes, and money were sent back to them. Money was raised either through membership dues or by private donations. Teas, raffles, souvenir albums were also organized as fundraisers. The Centre cooperated with other relief agencies in Montreal, especially the Federation of Polish Jews. It also maintained contact with Bialystoker Centers around the world. The Centre's most active years were from 1945 to 1955. It was never officially disbanded. As of 1986, members were still receiving letters.