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ABELLA, Irving.

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Collection
ABELLA, Irving.
Description Level
Fonds
Physical Description
0.1 metres of textual records.
Fonds No.
P0002
Date
1969-1991.
Scope and Content
The fonds contains articles by Abella on Anti-Semitism, the Canadian labour movement, Israel, Canadian Jewish history, refugees, None is Too Many. Typescript A Coat of Many Colours. Typescript The Line Must be Drawn Somewhere - Canada and Jewish Refugees, 1933-1939. C.V. contains bibliography 1969-…
Collection
ABELLA, Irving.
Description Level
Fonds
Physical Description
0.1 metres of textual records.
Scope and Content
The fonds contains articles by Abella on Anti-Semitism, the Canadian labour movement, Israel, Canadian Jewish history, refugees, None is Too Many. Typescript A Coat of Many Colours. Typescript The Line Must be Drawn Somewhere - Canada and Jewish Refugees, 1933-1939. C.V. contains bibliography 1969-1981.
Date
1969-1991.
Fonds No.
P0002
History / Biographical
Born in 1940, Dr. Irving Abella is a professor in the Department of History at York University, a labour historian, director of the New Israel Fund, and editor of Middle East Focus. He was the chairman of the Holocaust Documentation Project as well as of the Canadian Jewish Congress International Affairs Committee; past chairman of Canadian Jewish Congress National Archives Committee (1980-1992); CJC president 1992-1995. Holder of numerous academic honours and fellowships.
Notes
Archives Dept. Records DA 11.2.Fonds consists mostly press clippings and copies.
Archival / Genealogical
Archival Descriptions
Repository
Canadian Jewish Archives
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ASPLER, Minna = Holocaust memoirs, Poland.

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Collection
ASPLER, Minna = Holocaust memoirs, Poland.
Description Level
Fonds
Physical Description
14 sound elements.
Fonds No.
P0189
Date
1981.
Scope and Content
14 cassette tapes copied from Minna Aspler of interviews done by her son in 1981, with accompanying notes. Autobiographical recollections and Holocaust testimony. Warsaw Ghetto, Poland, and German camp. Life in hiding as Christian during the war.
Collection
ASPLER, Minna = Holocaust memoirs, Poland.
Description Level
Fonds
Physical Description
14 sound elements.
Scope and Content
14 cassette tapes copied from Minna Aspler of interviews done by her son in 1981, with accompanying notes. Autobiographical recollections and Holocaust testimony. Warsaw Ghetto, Poland, and German camp. Life in hiding as Christian during the war.
Date
1981.
Fonds No.
P0189
History / Biographical
Minna Aspler was born in Russia circa 1911 or 1914 and moved to Warsaw with her family at the age of 9 or 12. She was in the Warsaw Ghetto and escaped to go into hiding as a Christian. She came to Canada after surviving World War II.
Custodial History
Donated by Minna Aspler in May 2003.
Notes
P03/07.3 interview cassettes with Minna Aspler, done in the late 1980s by Eiran Harris.
Archival / Genealogical
Archival Descriptions
Repository
Canadian Jewish Archives
Images
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