12 records – page 1 of 1.

An AJA 50+ 'Drawing for Pleasure' art class

https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn111728
Collection
AJA 50+ fonds = Active Jewish Adults 50+ fonds
Description Level
Item
Material Type
graphic material
Physical Description
1 photograph : col.
Fonds No.
O0002; OJA 4-02-03
Date
2001
Collection
AJA 50+ fonds = Active Jewish Adults 50+ fonds
Description Level
Item
Material Type
graphic material
Physical Description
1 photograph : col.
Date
2001
Fonds No.
O0002
Item No.
OJA 4-02-03
Storage Location
vault
Creator
Sarah Klein
Notes
L to R: Amnon Pasher, Ruth Levitan, John Liberman, Sheila Baslaw, Bill Cleiman, Issie Werk, Estelle Melzer
Archival / Genealogical
Archival Descriptions
Repository
Ottawa Jewish Archives
Images
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An AJA 50+ watercolour drawing art class

https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn111727
Collection
AJA 50+ fonds = Active Jewish Adults 50+ fonds
Description Level
Item
Material Type
graphic material
Physical Description
1 photograph : col.
Fonds No.
O0002; OJA 4-02-01
Date
2002
Collection
AJA 50+ fonds = Active Jewish Adults 50+ fonds
Description Level
Item
Material Type
graphic material
Physical Description
1 photograph : col.
Date
2002
Fonds No.
O0002
Item No.
OJA 4-02-01
Storage Location
vault
Creator
Sarah Klein
Notes
Photo includes Issie Werk, Marog Borenstein, and an unidentified woman
Archival / Genealogical
Archival Descriptions
Repository
Ottawa Jewish Archives
Images
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Dictionnaire: Français-Allemand / Deutsch-Französisch

https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn47742
Collection
Montreal Holocaust Museum
Description Level
Item
Material Type
book
Physical Description
Book : printed, bound : red, black, beige ; Ht: 13,6 cm x W: 10,5 cm
Date
1932
Collection
Montreal Holocaust Museum
Description Level
Item
Material Type
book
Physical Description
Book : printed, bound : red, black, beige ; Ht: 13,6 cm x W: 10,5 cm
Other Title Information
Documentary Artifact
Date
1932
Physical Condition
Good
Language
German
French
Notes
791 pages. Hardcover, cardboard bound with string. Cover is alternating black and red veritical stripes, with the title printed in white at the top, in front of a red rectangle with a black border; the title is also printed horizontally on the spine, with a floral motif at the bottom. Interior pages are beige, written in dictionary format, with the introduction in French.
Accession No.
2002.45.01
Name Access
Lichtenstein, Sarah Sybill
Places
Paris, France, Europe
Archival / Genealogical
Archival Descriptions
Repository
Montreal Holocaust Museum
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Engelhard, Sarah - Oral History of a Holocaust Survivor

https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn60316
Collection
WITNESS TO HISTORY COLLECTION (MHMC-02)
Description Level
Item
Material Type
moving images
Physical Description
04:49:00
Collection
WITNESS TO HISTORY COLLECTION (MHMC-02)
Description Level
Item
Material Type
moving images
Physical Description
04:49:00
Creator
Montreal Holocaust Memorial Centre
Language
English
Notes
Sarah Engelhard was born on July 10, 1932 in Alsace-Lorraine, France. Her childhood was spent in Toulouse, where she lived with her parents and her younger brother Jack. With an increasing number of Jews in Toulouse being taken by the Nazis, her family escaped to Spain when she around nine years old. To do so they obtained false papers and hired guides to take them over the Pyrenees. They lived in Spain for almost two years, finally immigrating to Canada on the first day of Passover in April 1944. Though she picked up English quickly, she didn’t enjoy her first years in Canada. High school was hard for her, and she dropped out at age 15 to help her father sell his handbags. Though she managed to do her part well, he did not, and the business fell through. She found a job in the music section at Eaton’s department store. When she was 18 she left home and became engaged to a man she had known in high school, Avi Boxer. That engagement fell through and, after obtaining her degree from St. George’s University, she married a man twenty years her senior named Harry. They had three children. She moved with Harry to Philadelphia where he was working as an engineer. There, she began to write French love songs and perform in dinner clubs as a singer as well as audition for plays. She also taught French, eventually getting a television program for teaching French. She and Harry divorced in 1972. A year or two later she returned to Montreal after having visited Europe for the first time since she left. She reunited with Avi, and though the relationship was sour they had a child, Asa. In 1993 she and Asa left for Israel, where she lived for nine years. She returned to Montreal in 2002 and has since written a book about her life.
Accession No.
WTH-470
Name Access
Engelhard, Sarah
Places
Saarbrucken, Germany, Europe
Archival / Genealogical
Archival Descriptions
Repository
Montreal Holocaust Museum
Images
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Engelhard, Sarah - Oral History of a Holocaust Survivor

https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn60326
Collection
WITNESS TO HISTORY COLLECTION (MHMC-02)
Description Level
Item
Material Type
moving images
Physical Description
04:49:00
Collection
WITNESS TO HISTORY COLLECTION (MHMC-02)
Description Level
Item
Material Type
moving images
Physical Description
04:49:00
Creator
Montreal Holocaust Memorial Centre
Language
French
Notes
Sarah Engelhard was born on July 10, 1932 in Alsace-Lorraine, France. Her childhood was spent in Toulouse, where she lived with her parents and her younger brother Jack. With an increasing number of Jews in Toulouse being taken by the Nazis, her family escaped to Spain when she around nine years old. To do so they obtained false papers and hired guides to take them over the Pyrenees. They lived in Spain for almost two years, finally immigrating to Canada on the first day of Passover in April 1944. Though she picked up English quickly, she didn’t enjoy her first years in Canada. High school was hard for her, and she dropped out at age 15 to help her father sell his handbags. Though she managed to do her part well, he did not, and the business fell through. She found a job in the music section at Eaton’s department store. When she was 18 she left home and became engaged to a man she had known in high school, Avi Boxer. That engagement fell through and, after obtaining her degree from St. George’s University, she married a man twenty years her senior named Harry. They had three children. She moved with Harry to Philadelphia where he was working as an engineer. There, she began to write French love songs and perform in dinner clubs as a singer as well as audition for plays. She also taught French, eventually getting a television program for teaching French. She and Harry divorced in 1972. A year or two later she returned to Montreal after having visited Europe for the first time since she left. She reunited with Avi, and though the relationship was sour they had a child, Asa. In 1993 she and Asa left for Israel, where she lived for nine years. She returned to Montreal in 2002 and has since written a book about her life.
Accession No.
WTH-537
Name Access
Engelhard, Sarah
Places
Saarbrucken, Germany, Europe
Archival / Genealogical
Archival Descriptions
Repository
Montreal Holocaust Museum
Images
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Group portrait of (l to r) Esther Elkin, Dr. Leon [Lorne], Saidye Bronfman, Jean Lallemand, and Sarah Fischer, Sarah Fischer Concerts event, Ritz-Carlton Hotel, Montreal.

https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn23766
Collection
Photograph Collection
Description Level
Item
Material Type
graphic material
Fonds No.
1255; 005811
Date
February 23, 1975
Scope and Content
Donated to Mrs. E. Miller and the JPL by Sarah Eugene Fischer on Feb. 23, 1975.
Collection
Photograph Collection
Description Level
Item
Material Type
graphic material
Scope and Content
Donated to Mrs. E. Miller and the JPL by Sarah Eugene Fischer on Feb. 23, 1975.
Date
February 23, 1975
Fonds No.
1255
Item No.
005811
Notes
Copy 2 of 2
Location, date and people identified on verso.
Name Access
Fischer, Sarah.
ELKIN, Esther
Places
Montreal (Quebec)
Archival / Genealogical
Archival Descriptions
Repository
Jewish Public Library Archives
Images
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Issie Werk in an AJA 50+ art class

https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn111726
Collection
AJA 50+ fonds = Active Jewish Adults 50+ fonds
Description Level
Item
Material Type
graphic material
Physical Description
1 photograph : col.
Fonds No.
O0002; OJA 4-02-02
Date
January 2002
Collection
AJA 50+ fonds = Active Jewish Adults 50+ fonds
Description Level
Item
Material Type
graphic material
Physical Description
1 photograph : col.
Date
January 2002
Fonds No.
O0002
Item No.
OJA 4-02-02
Storage Location
vault
Creator
Sarah Klein
Acquisition Source
Estelle Gunner
Archival / Genealogical
Archival Descriptions
Repository
Ottawa Jewish Archives
Images
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Machzor ?

https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn47741
Collection
Montreal Holocaust Museum
Description Level
Item
Material Type
book
Physical Description
Book : printed, bound, embellishments : black, brass, beige, white ; Ht: 17,9 cm x W: 12,4 cm
Collection
Montreal Holocaust Museum
Description Level
Item
Material Type
book
Physical Description
Book : printed, bound, embellishments : black, brass, beige, white ; Ht: 17,9 cm x W: 12,4 cm
Other Title Information
Documentary Artifact
Physical Condition
Good
Language
German
Hebrew
Notes
500+ pages (exact page number unknown). Hardcover, cardboard bound. Cover and spine are covered in black velour with metal (brass ?) strips attached to the edges. The front has metal embellishments on the corners and in the centre (see condition); the back has metal embellishments on each corner (see condition). There is a clasp, diamond shape with ornate detailing, that is attached to the back cover and hooks onto the front cover to keep the book closed. The flyleafs are a shiney, textured white paper. Interior pages are beige with the text divided into 2 columns, one side is German and the other is Hebrew. The last group of pages are completely in German. Narrative: Joel Wahnon (brother-in-law) was Portuguese diplomat to Vienna. In 1999-2000, his building was under construction, workers found books in the wall and gave it to him when they discovered he was Jewish.
Accession No.
2011X.347.01
Name Access
Wahnon, Sarah
Places
Vienna, Austria, Europe
Archival / Genealogical
Archival Descriptions
Repository
Montreal Holocaust Museum
Images
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Portrait of Simon Mordechai Rapkin in uniform

https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn45519
Collection
Montreal Holocaust Museum
Description Level
Item
Material Type
graphic material
Physical Description
Photograph : paper : photography : black, white ; Ht: 9 cm x W: 14 cm
Date
1944
Collection
Montreal Holocaust Museum
Description Level
Item
Material Type
graphic material
Physical Description
Photograph : paper : photography : black, white ; Ht: 9 cm x W: 14 cm
Other Title Information
Documentary Artifact
Date
1944
Physical Condition
Good
Notes
b&w, white border. Outdoors. Canadian soldier Simon Rapkin in uniform standing on a bridge. He wears a dark military beret and unadorned uniform with a belt and thin strap across the chest. Narrative: Simon Rapkin was originally from Montreal. He was posted in England in 1942. He landed in France six days after D-Day. He was working in transport and did not see combat. After liberation, he was posted close to Bergen-Belsen concentration camp. He used to bring chocolates and other things to survivors of the camp.
Accession No.
2009.15.04
Name Access
Rapkin, Sarah
Places
France, Europe
Archival / Genealogical
Archival Descriptions
Repository
Montreal Holocaust Museum
Images
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Prayer shawl

https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn47739
Collection
Montreal Holocaust Museum
Description Level
Item
Material Type
object
Physical Description
Prayer shawl : woven, sewn, machine, knotted, cut work : beige, black
Date
1945-1947
Collection
Montreal Holocaust Museum
Description Level
Item
Material Type
object
Physical Description
Prayer shawl : woven, sewn, machine, knotted, cut work : beige, black
Other Title Information
Ceremonial Artifact
Date
1945-1947
Physical Condition
Good
Language
English
Hebrew
Notes
3 black vertical stripes, of various widths, are found on either ends. All 4 corners, and a long edge, have been reinforced with additional material. The reinforced long edge (the neck band, known as an atarah) has additional sewn detailing, including what may be Hebrew text. A hole is cut out in each corner, with a knotted string (tzitzit) going through. Fringe is found on either wide end. Narrative: Tallisgiven to Marian (Myer) Lichtenstein by the Joint in Germany after his liberation from Buchenwald concentration camp.
Accession No.
2002.33.02
Name Access
Lichtenstein, Sarah Sybill
Places
Germany, Europe
Archival / Genealogical
Archival Descriptions
Repository
Montreal Holocaust Museum
Images
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Two photos of AJA 50+ participants at Art Gallery.

https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn105012
Collection
AJA 50+ fonds = Active Jewish Adults 50+ fonds
Description Level
Item
Material Type
graphic material
Physical Description
1 photograph : col.
Fonds No.
O0002; OJA 4-686-02
Date
March 2004
Collection
AJA 50+ fonds = Active Jewish Adults 50+ fonds
Description Level
Item
Material Type
graphic material
Physical Description
1 photograph : col.
Date
March 2004
Fonds No.
O0002
Item No.
OJA 4-686-02
Storage Location
vault
Creator
Sarah Klein
Acquisition Source
Estelle Gunner
Notes
Photos include Sheila Silverman, Ozzie Silverman, Brenda Wolf, ? Weinman, Annette Werk, Issie Wek, David Steinberg, Sarah Klein, Marilyn Blattel, Pearl Jahefuiou?, Joel Jahefuiou?, Molly Hirsch, Sheila Beshaw, Miriam Levitin, and Freda Lithwick.
Archival / Genealogical
Archival Descriptions
Repository
Ottawa Jewish Archives
Images
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Wahnon, Sarah - Oral History of a Holocaust Survivor

https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn60317
Collection
WITNESS TO HISTORY COLLECTION (MHMC-02)
Description Level
Item
Material Type
moving images
Physical Description
01:17:00
Collection
WITNESS TO HISTORY COLLECTION (MHMC-02)
Description Level
Item
Material Type
moving images
Physical Description
01:17:00
Creator
Montreal Holocaust Memorial Centre
Language
English
Notes
Sarah Wahnon (née Goldman) was born in 1923 in Lisbon, Portugal. At the beginning of the interview she states that she is not a survivor of the Holocaust. Her parents were born in Poland in 1895. They moved to Berlin in search of a better life. In 1923, with the rise of Hitler, they moved to Lisbon as it was easy to obtain visas for Portugal. Her father opened a small factory and the business went quite well. Sarah worked in a department store. Her family wasn’t particularly religious, but her mother made Sarah and her brother take Yiddish and Judaism classes. Sarah speaks about the deeds of Aristides de Sousa Mendes, the Portuguese diplomat who issued an estimated 30,000 visas to Jews and other persecuted minorities in Portugal, against the orders of his own government, Prime Minister Antonio de Oliviera Salazar. Sarah also describes the Jewish life in Portugal before, during and after WWII, and the changes with the arrival of refugees from the rest of Europe. In 1950, she immigrated to Canada with her husband (a Sephardi Jew) and her father, mother and brother, because they wanted to experience a different environment. She had two children who were born at the Jewish General Hospital in Montreal.
Accession No.
WTH-473
Name Access
Wahnon, Sarah
Places
Lisbon, Portugal, Europe
Archival / Genealogical
Archival Descriptions
Repository
Montreal Holocaust Museum
Images
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