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Sam Schwartz
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- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- Photograph : Paper : photography : black, white ; Ht: 8,75 cm x W: 7 cm
- Date
- May 6, 1945
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- Photograph : Paper : photography : black, white ; Ht: 8,75 cm x W: 7 cm
- Other Title Information
- Documentary Artifact
- Date
- May 6, 1945
- Physical Condition
- Good
- Notes
- b&w. Portrait. Sam Schwartz wearing a striped camp prisoner's uniform with a Star of David and a cap. His face is very thin. Narrative: Sam Schwartz was born 1906-07-12 in Stryl (Poland). The photograph was taken after the liberation of Waldenburg Gross-Rosen concentration camp.
- Accession No.
- 1990.23.01
- Name Access
- Schwartz, Sam
- Places
- Waldenburg, Germany, Europe
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
Images
SCHWARTZ, Abraham Albert
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/genealogy430
- 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
- 1920
- Date of Death
- August 10, 1943
- Place of Burial
- Ottawa, Ontario
- Cemetery
- Ottawa Jewish Cemetery
- Age at Time of Death
- 23
- Enlistment No.
- J-21013
- Rank
- Pilot Officer
- Unit
- Royal Canadian Air Force
- Notes
- Pilot Officer Abraham Albert Schwartz of Ottawa, Ontario, was reported killed on active service (R.C.A.F. Casualty List No. 654). He died in an Ottawa hospital of injuries sustained when the airplane which he was flying as instructor crashed into a tree ten miles east of Kemptville, Ontario, on August 10, 1943. Enlisting in the air force in January 1940, Pikot Officer Schwartz served for a time with the equipment branch of the R.C.A.F. before remustering to air crew. He trained at St. Thomas, Winnipeg, Uplands, Rockcliffe and Belleville, before going to St. Hubert, where he receive his pilot’s wings and commission on November 19, 1942. At the time of his death, he was instructor at the Uplands R.C.A.F. Station. Honours and awards: Defence Medal; CVSM; War Medal 1939-45. (From “There I Was ... A Collection of Reminiscences by Members of the Ottawa Jewish Community Who Served in World War II,” published by the Ottawa Post Jewish War Veterans and the Ottawa Jewish Historical Society.)
- Subjects
- World War II
- Record Source
- Canadian Jewish Military Casualties
- Fonds No.
- CJC0001
- Archival / Genealogical
- Genealogy Records
- Repository
- Canadian Jewish Archives
Images
SCHWARTZ, Frank
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/genealogy431
- 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
- 1920
- Date of Death
- May 26, 1941
- Place of Burial
- Montreal, Quebec
- Cemetery
- Montreal (Baron de Hirsch) Cemetery
- Age at Time of Death
- 21
- Enlistment No.
- R-77224
- Rank
- Leading Aircraftman
- Unit
- Royal Canadian Air Force
- Notes
- Leading Aircraftman Frank Schwartz of Montreal, Quebec, was killed in a flying accident near Dunnville, Ontario. Major G. Levi, M.B.E., senior Jewish chaplain, officiated at the funeral. A double tombstone marks the graves of Leading Aircraftman Schwartz and his lifelong friend Leading Aircraftman Jack Kugelmass, who was killed in a flying accident near Prince Albert, Saskatchewan, on July 1, 1941. Leading Aircraftman Schwartz enlisted in the air force in October 1940 and after preliminary training was posted to Dunnville for advanced training.
- Subjects
- World War II
- Record Source
- Canadian Jewish Military Casualties
- Fonds No.
- CJC0001
- Archival / Genealogical
- Genealogy Records
- Repository
- Canadian Jewish Archives
Images
SCHWARTZ, Gerald Joseph
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/genealogy432
- 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
- August 06, 1923
- Date of Death
- March 30, 1945
- Place of Burial
- Gelderland, Netherlands
- Cemetery
- Groesbeek Canadian War Cemetery
- Age at Time of Death
- 21
- Rank
- Lieutenant
- Unit
- Royal Canadian Artillery
- Notes
- Lieutenant Gerald Joseph Schwartz, R.C.A., of Montreal, died of injuries on March 30, 1945, while serving on the western front. Lieutenant Schwartz received his military training with the McGill University C.O.T.C. and at Brockville. He proceeded overseas in 1943 with the Royal Canadian Artillery. An enthusiastic soldier, he wrote the following from England to Mrs. M. Hyman of the Montreal Women’s War Efforts Committee of Canadian Jewish Congress: “You have been told, no doubt, many times and in many ways of the good comradeship, the esprit de corps, the absence of racialism, the quiet tolerance which exists in the Canadian army. Indeed, life in the army overseas is an experience which will stand the soldier-citizen in good stead when he returns to Canada and drops the ‘soldier.’” He had been overseas for two years. A brother, Bertram, served in the R.C.A.F.
- Subjects
- World War II
- Record Source
- Canadian Jewish Military Casualties
- Fonds No.
- CJC0001
- Archival / Genealogical
- Genealogy Records
- Repository
- Canadian Jewish Archives
Images
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