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- CONGREGATION SHAAR HASHOMAYIM MUSEUM AND ARCHIVES
- Camp Kindervelt/Camp Unzer Collection 1
- Canadian Jewish Congress organizational records 2
- Congregation Shaar Hashomayim Archives 1
- GUBBAY HELFER, Sharon 3
- HARRIS, Eiran 9
- Jewish Public Library Historical Collection 1
- LUTSKY, Leslie = Jewish Digest Radio Show. 17
- Lea Roback Fonds 6
- Sephardic Oral History Project interviews by Marie Berdugo-Cohen. 2
- Shloime Perel = Early Radio Centre-ville Jewish Digest recordings 1
- WITNESS TO HISTORY COLLECTION (MHMC-02)
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- Amsterdam, Netherlands, Europe 1
- Bedzin, Poland, Europe 1
- Berlin, Germany, Europe 3
- Brussels, Belgium, Europe 1
- Budapest, Hungary, Europe 1
- Gera, Germany, Europe 1
- Iasi, Romania, Europe 1
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- Lodz , Poland , Europe 1
- Ludwigshafen, Germany, Europe 1
- Montreal, Quebec, Canada 19
Artist Terry Lightman
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn44508
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- 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/wJtC9LLn6DQBlowing of the Shofar
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn44499
- Collection
- CONGREGATION SHAAR HASHOMAYIM MUSEUM AND ARCHIVES
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- moving images
- Physical Description
- Video : VCR tape : English : duration: 30.83 seconds
- Fonds No.
- SH-01; 224
- Date
- 2001
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- moving images
- Physical Description
- Video : VCR tape : English : duration: 30.83 seconds
- Date
- 2001
- Fonds No.
- SH-01
- Item No.
- 224
- Physical Condition
- Excellent
- Notes
- The shofar is blown as an awakening sign and an encouragement for reflection.
- Places
- Montreal, Quebec, Canada
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Congregation Shaar Hashomayim Museum and Archives
YouTube
Blowing of the Shofar
https://www.youtube.com/embed/So-XJJLFNVUThe burning of the chametz before Passover
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn44509
- Collection
- CONGREGATION SHAAR HASHOMAYIM MUSEUM AND ARCHIVES
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- sound recording
- Physical Description
- Audio : Audio recording : English : duration: 30 seconds
- Fonds No.
- SH-01; 801
- Date
- [ca. 2002]
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- sound recording
- Physical Description
- Audio : Audio recording : English : duration: 30 seconds
- Date
- [ca. 2002]
- Fonds No.
- SH-01
- Item No.
- 801
- Notes
- Audio clip of Rabbi Barry Gelman discussing the symbolic burning of leavened food (chametz) in preparation for Passover.
- Places
- Montreal, Quebec, Canada
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Congregation Shaar Hashomayim Museum and Archives
YouTube
The burning of the chametz before Passover
https://www.youtube.com/embed/tg_s_TVbsp8Cantorial singing
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn44511
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- CONGREGATION SHAAR HASHOMAYIM MUSEUM AND ARCHIVES
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- sound recording
- Physical Description
- Audio : sound recording : Hebrew : duration: 45 seconds
- Fonds No.
- SH-01; 805
- Date
- [ca. 2002]
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- sound recording
- Physical Description
- Audio : sound recording : Hebrew : duration: 45 seconds
- Date
- [ca. 2002]
- Fonds No.
- SH-01
- Item No.
- 805
- Notes
- Audio clip of a cantor singing a portion of the Jewish liturgy. The associated image shows Cantor Sidney Dworkin of the Congregation Shaar Hashomayim
- Places
- Montreal, Quebec, Canada
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Congregation Shaar Hashomayim Museum and Archives
YouTube
Cantorial singing
https://www.youtube.com/embed/CgdTP8EBOLUChildren and the Synagogue
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn44503
- Collection
- CONGREGATION SHAAR HASHOMAYIM MUSEUM AND ARCHIVES
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- moving images
- Physical Description
- Video : DV tape : English : duration: 15 sec.
- Fonds No.
- SH-01; 257
- Date
- 2001
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- moving images
- Physical Description
- Video : DV tape : English : duration: 15 sec.
- Date
- 2001
- Fonds No.
- SH-01
- Item No.
- 257
- Physical Condition
- Good
- Notes
- Millie Lande, C.M., comments about the role of the synagogue in children's lives.
- Places
- Montreal, Quebec, Canada
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Congregation Shaar Hashomayim Museum and Archives
YouTube
Children and the Synagogue
https://www.youtube.com/embed/iTMo4iX0jdgCieply, Isak - Oral History of a Holocaust Survivor
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn67767
- Collection
- WITNESS TO HISTORY COLLECTION (MHMC-02)
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- moving images
- Physical Description
- 02:26:32
- Collection
- WITNESS TO HISTORY COLLECTION (MHMC-02)
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- moving images
- Physical Description
- 02:26:32
- Language
- English
- Notes
- Isak Cieply was born on February 1, 1924 in Starachowice, Poland. He had five siblings and the family was very poor. In the fall of 1939, soon after the German invasion, the Jews of Starachowice were ordered to move into the ghetto. Isak was selected to work in a steel factory and his work pass protected him from round-ups. At the beginning of 1943 he was sent to the Bugaj camp to work in a supplies warehouse. In the summer of 1944 the camp was liquidated after rumours of the approach of the Soviet army had spread. The prisoners were taken to Auschwitz. Isak was sent to work in an electric supplies warehouse in Buna/Auschwitz III. There he met a German soldier who proposed a deal that Isak accepted. Isak was to supply this soldier with electric materials and, in return, he would get a loaf of bread every day. In January 1945 Isak was sent on a death march to the Flossenbürg concentration camp. Sometime later he was sent on another death march but succeeded to escape with some fellow prisoners. They eventually met American soldiers. After liberation Isak worked as the chief supplier of the Pfarrkirchen and Eggenfelden DP camps. He immigrated to Canada in 1948 and married the late Regina Cieply who was also a survivor. They had four children and several grandchildren, among them Jamie Benizri.
- Accession No.
- WTH-213
- Name Access
- Cieply, Isak
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
Images
YouTube
Cieply, Isak - Oral History of a Holocaust Survivor
https://www.youtube.com/embed/eIbnIGm8Rg8Congregation Shaar Hashomayim's Choir
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn44495
- Collection
- CONGREGATION SHAAR HASHOMAYIM MUSEUM AND ARCHIVES
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- moving images
- Physical Description
- Video : VCR tape : English : duration: 51.32 seconds
- Fonds No.
- SH-01; 219
- Date
- 2001
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- moving images
- Physical Description
- Video : VCR tape : English : duration: 51.32 seconds
- Date
- 2001
- Fonds No.
- SH-01
- Item No.
- 219
- Physical Condition
- Excellent
- Notes
- This video shows the Shaar Hashomayim choir singing, as well as Mrs. Millie Lande discussing the beauty of the Congregation's choir.
- Places
- Montreal, Quebec, Canada
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Congregation Shaar Hashomayim Museum and Archives
YouTube
Congregation Shaar Hashomayim's Choir
https://www.youtube.com/embed/iW23vqbzv5YCongregation 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_IpxxtcDawang, Elie - Oral History of a Holocaust Survivor
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn60321
- Collection
- WITNESS TO HISTORY COLLECTION (MHMC-02)
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- moving images
- Physical Description
- 03:55:00
- Collection
- WITNESS TO HISTORY COLLECTION (MHMC-02)
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- moving images
- Physical Description
- 03:55:00
- Language
- French
- Notes
- Elie Dawang was born on January 4, 1934 in Paris, France, to Lithuanian parents. Elie has good memories of his early childhood, being raised by loving and well-off parents. In May 1940, the Dawangs left Paris for a small village near the Spanish border. Despite the great danger, they went back to Paris to liquidate the business of Feivish, Elie’s father. The three of them were arrested in September 1941 and while Feivish managed to get Elie out of prison, he couldn’t do anything to save himself or his wife. They were both sentenced and sent to jail for possessing false papers. They both ended up in Auschwitz, but Elie’s mother was gassed upon arrival whereas Feivish survived the war. Meanwhile, Elie was being taken care of by a Jewish woman. Elie and his caretaker almost got arrested during the roundup of Vel d’Hiv but managed to hide. After a few months hiding in the suburbs of Paris, they moved to the country where they stayed until liberation. When Paris was liberated, they moved back there and Elie returned to school. He reunited with his father in May 1945. They moved to Canada in 1951 with Elie’s stepmother. Elie describes the process to immigrate, his first impressions of Montreal and Canada and his involvement in Holocaust education.
- Accession No.
- WTH-482
- Name Access
- Dawang, Elie
- Places
- Paris, France, Europe
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
Images
YouTube
Dawang, Elie - Oral History of a Holocaust Survivor
https://www.youtube.com/embed/f95UEOppbHEDedication by John Moss
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn44496
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- CONGREGATION SHAAR HASHOMAYIM MUSEUM AND ARCHIVES
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- moving images
- Physical Description
- Video : VCR tape : English : duration: 16.10 seconds
- Fonds No.
- SH-01; 220
- Date
- 2001
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- moving images
- Physical Description
- Video : VCR tape : English : duration: 16.10 seconds
- Date
- 2001
- Fonds No.
- SH-01
- Item No.
- 220
- Physical Condition
- Excellent
- Notes
- The dedication for the consecration of the Shaar Hashomayim in 1886, written by John Moss, is read in this video.
- Places
- Montreal, Quebec, Canada
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Congregation Shaar Hashomayim Museum and Archives
YouTube
Dedication by John Moss
https://www.youtube.com/embed/Cl8RBeGyjNIThe effects of September 11, 2001
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn44500
- Collection
- CONGREGATION SHAAR HASHOMAYIM MUSEUM AND ARCHIVES
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- moving images
- Physical Description
- Video : VCR tape : English : duration: 16.88 seconds
- Fonds No.
- SH-01; 225
- Date
- 2001
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- moving images
- Physical Description
- Video : VCR tape : English : duration: 16.88 seconds
- Date
- 2001
- Fonds No.
- SH-01
- Item No.
- 225
- Physical Condition
- Excellent
- Notes
- Mrs. Millie Lande discusses the events of September 11th in relation to the Shaar Hashomayim Congregation. Mrs. Lande states, “We must have faith that we can go forward and we can still do and fulfill the dreams that all of us have for the synagogue.”
- Places
- Montreal, Quebec, Canada
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Congregation Shaar Hashomayim Museum and Archives
YouTube
The effects of September 11, 2001
https://www.youtube.com/embed/V0hr1R1_44YElderly people's activities at Congregation Shaar Hashomayim
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn44494
- Collection
- CONGREGATION SHAAR HASHOMAYIM MUSEUM AND ARCHIVES
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- moving images
- Physical Description
- Video : VCR tape : English : duration: 18.11 seconds
- Fonds No.
- SH-01; 218
- Date
- 2001
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- moving images
- Physical Description
- Video : VCR tape : English : duration: 18.11 seconds
- Date
- 2001
- Fonds No.
- SH-01
- Item No.
- 218
- Physical Condition
- Excellent
- Notes
- The Congregation offers elderly people a range of socializing activities. One woman explains them in the following way, “Sunday can be the loneliest day in the week, so we are able to get up, get dressed, put on your makeup and away we go.”
- Places
- Montreal, Quebec, Canada
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Congregation Shaar Hashomayim Museum and Archives
YouTube
Elderly people's activities at Congregation Shaar Hashomayim
https://www.youtube.com/embed/GzEkLUktQBsFeist, Ursula - Oral History of a Holocaust Survivor
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn60304
- Collection
- WITNESS TO HISTORY COLLECTION (MHMC-02)
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- moving images
- Physical Description
- 01:41:00
- Collection
- WITNESS TO HISTORY COLLECTION (MHMC-02)
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- moving images
- Physical Description
- 01:41:00
- Language
- English
- Notes
- 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
Images
YouTube
Feist, Ursula - Oral History of a Holocaust Survivor
https://www.youtube.com/embed/oAO-Kk5yy_8Frost, Jacob - Oral History of a Holocaust Survivor
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn67760
- Collection
- WITNESS TO HISTORY COLLECTION (MHMC-02)
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- moving images
- Physical Description
- 01:40:49
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- WITNESS TO HISTORY COLLECTION (MHMC-02)
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- moving images
- Physical Description
- 01:40:49
- Language
- English
- Notes
- Jacob Frost was born on November 15, 1909 in Gera, Germany. He worked in a carpet factory after finishing Volksschule (primary education) and graduating from a non-Jewish high school. As soon as the Nuremberg laws were passed, he and his family were well aware of the dangers of the Nazis. By 1934, they had begun the process of trying to emigrate. Jacob witnessed Kristallnacht and was rounded up and taken to Buchenwald. He calls the experience at Buchenwald a “concentration” camp rather than an “internment” camp. He witnessed many brutalities, including a well-respected man of the community “losing his marbles” and a doctor tending this man’s self-inflicted wounds. Jacob spent five weeks at Buchenwald and could return to Gera as long as he had proof of papers to emigrate. With the advice and help of several kind gentiles along the way, Jacob made the voyage to Israel. He traveled by boat via Vienna to Salina, Romania, arriving in Israel in 1940. He immigrated to Canada in 1950.
- Accession No.
- WTH-075
- Name Access
- Frost, Jacob
- Places
- Gera, Germany, Europe
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
Images
YouTube
Frost, Jacob - Oral History of a Holocaust Survivor
https://www.youtube.com/embed/I_Tyt93j1KcGirl Guides Group at the Shaar Hashomayim
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn44492
- Collection
- CONGREGATION SHAAR HASHOMAYIM MUSEUM AND ARCHIVES
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- moving images
- Physical Description
- Video : DV recording : English : duration: 1 minute 55.92 seconds
- Fonds No.
- SH-01; 116
- Date
- 2002
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- moving images
- Physical Description
- Video : DV recording : English : duration: 1 minute 55.92 seconds
- Date
- 2002
- Fonds No.
- SH-01
- Item No.
- 116
- Physical Condition
- Excellent
- Notes
- In this video clip Gloria Halpern, who was a member of the Girl Guides that met at the Shaar Hashomayim, discusses her experiences of being part of this group.
- Places
- Montreal, Quebec, Canada
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Congregation Shaar Hashomayim Museum and Archives
YouTube
Girl Guides Group at the Shaar Hashomayim
https://www.youtube.com/embed/eoSkdAAC9P4Goldberg, Peter - Oral History of a Holocaust Survivor
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn60297
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- 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_QrcGuiding Principles of the Shaar Hashomayim
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn44498
- Collection
- CONGREGATION SHAAR HASHOMAYIM MUSEUM AND ARCHIVES
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- moving images
- Physical Description
- Video : VCR tape : English : duration: 29.15 seconds
- Fonds No.
- SH-01; 223
- Date
- 2001
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- moving images
- Physical Description
- Video : VCR tape : English : duration: 29.15 seconds
- Date
- 2001
- Fonds No.
- SH-01
- Item No.
- 223
- Physical Condition
- Excellent
- Notes
- The guiding principles of the Shaar Hashomayim are read in this video. These principles include the worship of God and the teaching and study of Torah.
- Places
- Montreal, Quebec, Canada
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Congregation Shaar Hashomayim Museum and Archives
YouTube
Guiding Principles of the Shaar Hashomayim
https://www.youtube.com/embed/BbaT_sHbXuMGuter, Ernest - Oral History of a Holocaust Survivor
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn67763
- Collection
- WITNESS TO HISTORY COLLECTION (MHMC-02)
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- moving images
- Physical Description
- 01:09:12
- Collection
- WITNESS TO HISTORY COLLECTION (MHMC-02)
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- moving images
- Physical Description
- 01:09:12
- Language
- English
- Notes
- Ernest Guter was born on April 7, 1917 in Toru?, Poland (Thorn, Germany). A year after his birth, his parents moved to Berlin then back to their hometown, Stolp. At a young age, Ernest joined the Maccabees and travelled across Germany preparing for the Jewish Youth Aliyah. In January 1938, he went to Berlin and became a social worker apprentice. One year later, he was transferred to the German Jewish Congress as a social worker. Ernest was in Berlin during Kristallnacht. A man helped him hide with other Jewish men in a store for several days, until it was calmer. Ernest stayed hidden in Berlin until he managed to get a visa to the United Kingdom. On the day that the German army entered Czechoslovakia, Ernest left for Great Britain. While working for the Rothschild’s, Ernest attended night-school at the College of Southampton, attempting to obtain a social science diploma. In 1940, all males with German passports living in England were interned. Ernest was originally interned in London, and then spent eight weeks interned on the Isle of Man. He was offered the choice of either staying on the Isle of Man for the duration of the war or going to either Canada or Australia. He chose Canada by chance and was sent to the Sherbrooke internment camp. Hymie Grover, a knitting-mill operator got Ernest out of the internment camp. He attended McGill University and graduated in 1945. He married a Jewish Canadian woman and has three children.
- Accession No.
- WTH-132
- Name Access
- Guter, Ernest
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
Images
YouTube
Guter, Ernest - Oral History of a Holocaust Survivor
https://www.youtube.com/embed/Ponlj5fYRdIHeller, Anita - Oral History of a Holocaust Survivor
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn67769
- Collection
- WITNESS TO HISTORY COLLECTION (MHMC-02)
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- moving images
- Physical Description
- 01:36:39
- Collection
- WITNESS TO HISTORY COLLECTION (MHMC-02)
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- moving images
- Physical Description
- 01:36:39
- Language
- English
- Notes
- Anita was born on April 26, 1926 in Karlsruhe, Germany. She came from a relatively well-off family. Her father, a German businessman, served as an officer in the German Army during WWI. He attended the 1912 Olympic Games as a member of the German Soccer Team. Her mother came from Warsaw. When she was two, the family moved to Berlin to live in a villa with servants. Anita attended a small private girl school from 1932 to 1937. She wasn't really aware of her Jewish roots before 1933. But her life changed the very day Hitler came to power. As anti-Jewish laws tightened, Anita felt a little bit more excluded every day. In 1935, her brother was sent to Scotland where he attended Kurt Hahn's school. In the summer of 1937, her parents took the decision to move to Engelberg, a small town near Luzern, Switzerland. The family left Berlin, leaving everything behind them. Anita was sent to a convent school in Luzern. Although they were able to get an American visa, the family decided to move to France in 1938. Being of Alsatian descent, they were eligible for French citizenship, which drove them to settle down in Paris where they led an undisturbed life until the war broke out. Her father was interned in a camp because he came to be viewed as an enemy alien. Eventually, in May 1940 the whole family succeeded in obtaining a Canadian visa and left Paris for Montreal. Anita didn't really enjoy her first years in Montreal as she experienced strong antisemitism on one side and on the other side was rejected by fellow Jews because of her German Citizenship. In 1947, she graduated from McGill University. She got married one year later and had two children.
- Accession No.
- WTH-291
- Name Access
- Heller, Anita
- Places
- Karlsruhe, Germany, Europe
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
Images
YouTube
Heller, Anita - Oral History of a Holocaust Survivor
https://www.youtube.com/embed/g46CQOiRFjYHelping the poor and elderly at Congregation Shaar Hashomayim
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn44493
- Collection
- CONGREGATION SHAAR HASHOMAYIM MUSEUM AND ARCHIVES
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- moving images
- Physical Description
- Video : VCR tape : English : duration: 46.36 seconds
- Fonds No.
- SH-01; 215
- Date
- 2001
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- moving images
- Physical Description
- Video : VCR tape : English : duration: 46.36 seconds
- Date
- 2001
- Fonds No.
- SH-01
- Item No.
- 215
- Physical Condition
- Excellent
- Notes
- This video consists of the reading of a letter of thanks from Lily Norton to the Meals on Wheels service that is run by the Sisterhood at the Shaar Hashomayim for the elderly and invalid Congregation members.
- Places
- Montreal, Quebec, Canada
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Congregation Shaar Hashomayim Museum and Archives
YouTube
Helping the poor and elderly at Congregation Shaar Hashomayim
https://www.youtube.com/embed/4nJMui86HDU