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Casey Swedlove and a Group of Past Presidents of Congregation Agudath Israel.

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Collection: Freda Swedlove Lithwick fonds

Description Level: Item

Material Type: graphic material

Physical Description: 1 photograph : col.

Fonds No.: I0072; OJA 1-1148

Date: [ca. 1960]

1 image

Collection: Freda Swedlove Lithwick fonds

Description Level: Item

Material Type: graphic material

Physical Description: 1 photograph : col.

Date: [ca. 1960]

Fonds No.: I0072

Item No.: OJA 1-1148

Storage Location: vault

Physical Condition: Photograph is very faded except along edges and in lower left corner where the photograph of Norman Loeb was inserted.

Acquisition Source: Carol-Sue Shapiro

Notes: L-R back row: Stanley Katz, Ben Karp, Norman Potechin, Joe Lieff, Jack Vinekor, Israel (Izzie) Shinder, Casey Sewdlove. Front Row: Harry Leikin, Justice Abe Lieff, Mr. Goldberg. This photograph hung in Casey Swedlove's office and is very discoloured.

Archival / Genealogical: Archival Descriptions

Repository: Ottawa Jewish Archives

Images

Exterior of Nursing Sister's Mess.

https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn103350

Collection: Freda Swedlove Lithwick fonds

Description Level: Item

Material Type: graphic material

Physical Description: 1 photograph : b&w

Fonds No.: I0072; OJA 1-659

Date: [194-?]

1 image

Collection: Freda Swedlove Lithwick fonds

Description Level: Item

Material Type: graphic material

Physical Description: 1 photograph : b&w

Date: [194-?]

Fonds No.: I0072

Item No.: OJA 1-659

Storage Location: vault

Acquisition Source: Freda Lithwick

Notes: The Mess was exclusive to the nurses.

Archival / Genealogical: Archival Descriptions

Repository: Ottawa Jewish Archives

Images

Freda Lithwick in her dress uniform.

https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn103348

Collection: Freda Swedlove Lithwick fonds

Description Level: Item

Material Type: graphic material

Physical Description: 1 photograph : b&w

Fonds No.: I0072; OJA 1-657

Date: 1945

1 image

Collection: Freda Swedlove Lithwick fonds

Description Level: Item

Material Type: graphic material

Physical Description: 1 photograph : b&w

Date: 1945

Fonds No.: I0072

Item No.: OJA 1-657

Storage Location: vault

Acquisition Source: Freda Lithwick

Archival / Genealogical: Archival Descriptions

Repository: Ottawa Jewish Archives

Images

Freda Lithwick in her nursing sisters' uniform.

https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn103346

Collection: Freda Swedlove Lithwick fonds

Description Level: Item

Material Type: graphic material

Physical Description: 1 photograph : b&w

Fonds No.: I0072; OJA 1-655

Date: 1944

1 image

Collection: Freda Swedlove Lithwick fonds

Description Level: Item

Material Type: graphic material

Physical Description: 1 photograph : b&w

Date: 1944

Fonds No.: I0072

Item No.: OJA 1-655

Storage Location: Oversized Photograph Box 2

Creator: Leroy Toll

Acquisition Source: Freda Lithwick

Archival / Genealogical: Archival Descriptions

Repository: Ottawa Jewish Archives

Images

Freda Lithwick in her nursing sisters' uniform outside the Rideau Military Hospital.

https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn103347

Collection: Freda Swedlove Lithwick fonds

Description Level: Item

Material Type: graphic material

Physical Description: 1 photograph : b&w

Fonds No.: I0072; OJA 1-656

Date: 1944

1 image

Collection: Freda Swedlove Lithwick fonds

Description Level: Item

Material Type: graphic material

Physical Description: 1 photograph : b&w

Date: 1944

Fonds No.: I0072

Item No.: OJA 1-656

Storage Location: vault

Acquisition Source: Freda Lithwick

Archival / Genealogical: Archival Descriptions

Repository: Ottawa Jewish Archives

Images

Freda Lithwick with one of the blankets she knitted for charity.

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Collection: Freda Swedlove Lithwick fonds

Description Level: Item

Material Type: graphic material

Physical Description: 1 photograph : b&w

Fonds No.: I0072; OJA 1-654

Date: January 1, 1994

1 image

Collection: Freda Swedlove Lithwick fonds

Description Level: Item

Material Type: graphic material

Physical Description: 1 photograph : b&w

Date: January 1, 1994

Fonds No.: I0072

Item No.: OJA 1-654

Storage Location: vault

Creator: Lynn Ball, Ottawa Citizen

Acquisition Source: Freda Lithwick

Archival / Genealogical: Archival Descriptions

Repository: Ottawa Jewish Archives

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Freda Swedlove Lithwick fonds.

https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn101171

Collection: Freda Swedlove Lithwick fonds

Description Level: Fonds

Material Type: graphic material; textual record; audio recording

Physical Description: 1 file and 9 photographs : b&w

Fonds No.: I0072

Date: 1941-1962

Scope and Content: Fonds consists of textual records, graphic material, an audio recording, and photographs. It includes nursing certificates, Nursing Sister records and one formal portrait in Army uniform. Fonds also includes a CD with an interview with Ruth Kahane Goldberg about family history and nursing career, D…

Collection: Freda Swedlove Lithwick fonds

Description Level: Fonds

Material Type: graphic material; textual record; audio recording

Physical Description: 1 file and 9 photographs : b&w

Scope and Content: Fonds consists of textual records, graphic material, an audio recording, and photographs. It includes nursing certificates, Nursing Sister records and one formal portrait in Army uniform. Fonds also includes a CD with an interview with Ruth Kahane Goldberg about family history and nursing career, December 1 2006.

Date: 1941-1962

Fonds No.: I0072

Storage Location: Individuals Boxes

History / Biographical: Freda Lithwick (b. 1919 - d. March 4, 2013) was born in Stouffville, Ontario, the daughter of Rachel and Zelig Swedlove. She had two brothers, Casey and Harold. Zelig Swedlove operated the Swedlove Wicker Factory where items were woven by hand from branches of the willow trees grown on the family farm. He had a knowledge of wicker from his early days in Russia. After Zelig Swedlove’s death in 1929, the family moved to Kemptville where Rachel Swedlove bought the general store from her brother-in-law, Sam Swedlove. Freda attended Kemptville High School and graduated in 1936. Initially she enrolled in a correspondence course but disliked typing. After looking into medicine, she decided in 1939 on nursing training within a Jewish environment and graduated from Beth Israel Hospital in Boston in 1942. Her nursing training in Boston included a four month session with the Taunton state mental institution; two weeks in each division of the hospital. She obtained her Public Health Certification at the University of Toronto and secured a position with the VON (Victorian Order of Nurses) in Kingston, Ontario. This first professional position was an experience for Freda both in budgeting and finding a place to live in Kingston during wartime. In March 1944, Freda enlisted in the Canadian Army as a Nursing Sister where she would have a more secure salary. She then came to Ottawa and worked at the Rideau Military Hospital in Alta Vista. Her inclination was to go overseas but because of her mother’s objection she remained in Ottawa. On June 6, 1945, one day after her discharge from the military, she married Hyman Lithwick. They had three children; Stanley (Clare Belanger), Larry (Denise Bisson) and Elaine (Harris Stein), and four grandchildren. Freda Lithwick had a leading volunteer role in many Jewish organizations, including Ottawa Hadassah Wizo, B’nai B’rith, National Council of Jewish Women and Agudath Israel Sisterhood where she was fund raiser for the Malca Pass Library. She was also the first Jewish woman to become President of the Civic Hospital Auxiliary.