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https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn59359
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- textual record
- Physical Description
- Letter : Paper : Type written : Ink : Beige, black, red ; Ht: 29,5 cm x W: 21 cm
- Date
- June 04, 1968
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- textual record
- Physical Description
- Letter : Paper : Type written : Ink : Beige, black, red ; Ht: 29,5 cm x W: 21 cm
- Other Title Information
- Documentary Artifact
- Date
- June 04, 1968
- Physical Condition
- Good
- Language
- German
- Notes
- Letter two pages in length, folded twice horizontally, first page numbered on B.R and second page numbered on top, printed with International Red Cross letterhead, addressed to Izidor Lorincz. Letter is a response to an earlier inquiery into the fate of Isadore's family during the Holocaust. Red Cross responds that, while the documentation is incomplete, it appears his family died in Auschwitz. Narrative: Rev. Isodore Lorincz was born 6 January 1908 in Hungary. His parents were Lowi Netti and Loliner (?) Jakob. He attended high school and Yeshiva, and graduated from the Jewish Theological Seminary of Budapest with ordination and smicha. During World War 2 his family was killed in Auschwitz. He came to Canada in 1957 after fleeing the revolution in Hungary. He served in two congregations before serving the Shaare Zedek Congregation as ritual director, then as Chazzan Sheni with a congregation in Hamilton, Ontario, for three years. Afterwards he served as rabbi in Port Colborne, Ontario. He settled in Montreal, Quebec, in 1962 where he became Chazzan Sheni for the next 26 years. He and his wife, Zita, continued to live in Montreal until there death around 2005.
- Accession No.
- 2000.65.1
- Name Access
- Goldman, Harry
- Places
- Arolsen, Germany, Europe
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
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