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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
- 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
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
- 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
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
Images
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
- 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
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
- 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
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
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
- 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
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
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
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
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
- 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
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
- 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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