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Letter

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Collection: Montreal Holocaust Museum

Description Level: Item

Material Type: textual record

Physical Description: Letter : Paper : Printed, Typed : Ink : White, Black, Blue ; Ht: 9 1/2 in. x W: 8 in.

Date: July 12, 1951

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Collection: Montreal Holocaust Museum

Description Level: Item

Material Type: textual record

Physical Description: Letter : Paper : Printed, Typed : Ink : White, Black, Blue ; Ht: 9 1/2 in. x W: 8 in.

Other Title Information: Documentary Artifact

Date: July 12, 1951

Physical Condition: Good

Language: English

Notes: 1 page, single-sided. Folded once vertically and twice horizontally. Printed on letterhead of the Canadian Department of Citizenship and Immigration, Immigration Branch. Document is a letter to Leon Streifler in Winnipeg, stating that his application for the admission of the Heiss family to Canada was approved. He is asked to forward this letter to the family in Newe Haim, Israel. Narrative: Salomon and Sara Heiss were the parents of the donor, Erika Bloom. The Heiss family fled Nazi-occupied Vienna in 1938, after Salomon was arrested and detained in Dachau for 3 days. They survived the war in Shanghai, immigrated to Israel in 1949, and eventually settled in Montreal.

Accession No.: 2002.28.03

Name Access: Bloom, Erika

Places: Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, North America

Archival / Genealogical: Archival Descriptions

Repository: Montreal Holocaust Museum

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COHEN, Syd (Sidney)

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Collection: Canadian Jewish Congress organizational records

Material Type: textual record; graphic material

Archival / Genealogical: Genealogy Records

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Collection: Canadian Jewish Congress organizational records

Material Type: textual record; graphic material

Date of Birth: 1922

Date of Death: March 15, 1943

Place of Burial: Winnipeg, Manitoba

Cemetery: Middlechurch (Independent B'nai Abraham) Cemetery

Age at Time of Death: 20

Enlistment No.: R-95142

Rank: Warrant Officer (Class II)

Unit: Royal Canadian Air Force

Notes: Warrant Officer Syd Cohen of Winnipeg, Manitoba, died in the St. Boniface Hospital in Winnipeg following an accident at No. 7 Bombing and Gunnery School at Paulson, Manitoba. He joined the air force soon after the outbreak of war. He trained at Portage la Prairie and Toronto and received his wings at Rockcliffe. He served as a pilot at various stations in Manitoba and was posted to Paulson in 1942 as a staff pilot.

Subjects: World War II

Record Source: Canadian Jewish Military Casualties

Fonds No.: CJC0001

Archival / Genealogical: Genealogy Records

Repository: Canadian Jewish Archives

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GROSSMAN, Samuel

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Collection: Canadian Jewish Congress organizational records

Material Type: textual record; graphic material

Archival / Genealogical: Genealogy Records

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Collection: Canadian Jewish Congress organizational records

Material Type: textual record; graphic material

Date of Birth: January 1913

Date of Death: July 30, 1945

Place of Burial: Winnipeg, Manitoba

Cemetery: Winnipeg (Shaarey Zedek) Cemetery

Age at Time of Death: 31

Enlistment No.: V-71410

Rank: Petty Officer (Sailmaker)

Unit: Royal Canadian Naval Volunteer Reserve

Notes: Petty Officer Samuel Grossman of Winnipeg, Manitoba, drowned accidentally at Cornwallis, Nova Scotia. Petty Officer Grossman enlisted in the navy in 1942. He was born in Drobitchin, Poland.

Subjects: World War II

Record Source: Canadian Jewish Military Casualties

Fonds No.: CJC0001

Archival / Genealogical: Genealogy Records

Repository: Canadian Jewish Archives

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GROWER, Benjamin

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Collection: Canadian Jewish Congress organizational records

Material Type: textual record

Archival / Genealogical: Genealogy Records

Collection: Canadian Jewish Congress organizational records

Material Type: textual record

Date of Birth: May 15, 1892

Date of Death: May 10, 1920

Place of Burial: Winnipeg, Manitoba

Cemetery: Winnipeg (Shaarey Zedek) Cemetery

Age at Time of Death: 38

Enlistment No.: 2260324

Rank: Private

Unit: Canadian Forestry Corps

Notes: Private Benjamin Grower was born in Romania and resided in Winnipeg, Manitoba. He received discharges three times (April 1915, July 1915, and March 1917) for medical reasons before joining. He died of phthisis (tuberculosis).

Subjects: World War I

Record Source: Canadian Jewish Military Casualties

Fonds No.: CJC0001

Archival / Genealogical: Genealogy Records

Repository: Canadian Jewish Archives

KAPLAN, Harry W.

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Collection: Canadian Jewish Congress organizational records

Material Type: textual record

Archival / Genealogical: Genealogy Records

Collection: Canadian Jewish Congress organizational records

Material Type: textual record

Date of Birth: December 23, 1896

Date of Death: July 04, 1918

Place of Burial: Winnipeg, Manitoba

Cemetery: Winnipeg (Shaarey Zedek) Cemetery

Age at Time of Death: 21

Enlistment No.: 153703

Rank: Cadet

Unit: Royal Air Force

Notes: Cadet Harry Kaplan was from Winnipeg, Manitoba. (British Jewry Book of Honour WWI written by Rabbi Dr. H. Abramowitz, Senior Chaplain to the British Forces)

Subjects: World War I

Record Source: Canadian Jewish Military Casualties

Fonds No.: CJC0001

Archival / Genealogical: Genealogy Records

Repository: Canadian Jewish Archives

LAKSER, Louis Mitchell

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Collection: Canadian Jewish Congress organizational records

Material Type: textual record

Archival / Genealogical: Genealogy Records

Collection: Canadian Jewish Congress organizational records

Material Type: textual record

Date of Birth: February 14, 1914

Date of Death: March 09, 1947

Place of Burial: Winnipeg, Manitoba

Cemetery: Winnipeg (Shaarey Zedek) Cemetery

Age at Time of Death: 32

Enlistment No.: H/ 50521

Rank: Warrant Officer Class II (C. S. M.)

Unit: Royal Canadian Army Medical Corps

Notes: Warrant Officer Louis Lakser was from Winnipeg, Manitoba.

Subjects: World War II

Record Source: Canadian Jewish Military Casualties

Fonds No.: CJC0001

Archival / Genealogical: Genealogy Records

Repository: Canadian Jewish Archives

RABINOVITCH, Samuel

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Collection: Canadian Jewish Congress organizational records

Material Type: textual record

Archival / Genealogical: Genealogy Records

Collection: Canadian Jewish Congress organizational records

Material Type: textual record

Date of Birth: February 08, 1917

Date of Death: May 28, 1942

Place of Burial: Winnipeg, Manitoba

Cemetery: Winnipeg (Shaarey Zedek) Cemetery

Age at Time of Death: 25

Enlistment No.: R-114666

Rank: Aircraftman (Class II)

Unit: Royal Canadian Air Force

Notes: Aircraftman Samuel Rabinovitch of Kelliher, Saskatchewan, died as result of injuries suffered at the R.C.A.F. depot at Dartmouth, Nova Scotia. He was buried with full air force honours. Rabbi Solomon Frank officiated. Aircraftman Rabinovitch enlisted in the air force in 1941. A brother, Marcus, also 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

RIVKIN, Hyman Irving

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Collection: Canadian Jewish Congress organizational records

Material Type: textual record

Archival / Genealogical: Genealogy Records

Collection: Canadian Jewish Congress organizational records

Material Type: textual record

Date of Birth: 1916

Date of Death: August 28, 1945

Place of Burial: Winnipeg, Manitoba

Cemetery: Winnipeg (Shaarey Zedek) Cemetery

Age at Time of Death: 29

Enlistment No.: R-281554

Rank: Aircraftman (Class I)

Unit: Royal Canadian Air Force

Notes: Aircraftman Hyman Rivkin of Winnipeg, Manitoba, died of injuries suffered in a road accident while he was stationed at Abbotsford, British Columbia. Aircraftman Rivkin enlisted in the air force in September 1943 and received his training at the No. 1 Wireless School in Montreal. A brother, Irwin, also served with 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

SLOTIN, Louis (Dr.)

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Collection: Canadian Jewish Congress organizational records

Material Type: textual record; graphic material

Archival / Genealogical: Genealogy Records

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Collection: Canadian Jewish Congress organizational records

Material Type: textual record; graphic material

Date of Birth: December 01, 1910

Date of Death: May 30, 1946

Place of Burial: Winnipeg, Manitoba

Cemetery: Winnipeg (Shaarey Zedek) Cemetery

Age at Time of Death: 35

Rank: Civilian

Notes: Dr. Louis Slotin of Winnipeg, Manitoba, died as a result of exposure to radiation while engaged in the development of the atomic bomb at the Los Alamos, New Mexico, laboratory of the United States War Department. Dr. Slotin began work on the Manhattan Project in 1942. After December 1944, he gave his full time to atomic research at the Clinton Laboratories at Oak Ridge, Tennessee. He was key man in the construction of the cyclotron at Los Alamos. He attended all experiments made in the New Mexico desert and was scheduled to attend the atomic bomb tests at Bikini Atoll in the Pacific Ocean in the summer of 1946.