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- CONGREGATION SHAAR HASHOMAYIM MUSEUM AND ARCHIVES 245
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BLOOM, Samuel
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/genealogy53
- Collection
- Canadian Jewish Congress organizational records
- Material Type
- textual record
- Archival / Genealogical
- Genealogy Records
- Material Type
- textual record
- Date of Birth
- September 15, 1898
- Date of Death
- February 19, 1920
- Place of Burial
- Montreal, Quebec
- Cemetery
- Montreal (Baron de Hirsch) Cemetery
- Age at Time of Death
- 21
- Enlistment No.
- 527260
- Rank
- Sapper
- Unit
- Canadian Railway Troops
- Notes
- Sapper Samuel Bloom resided in Montreal, Quebec and was born in Poland.
- Subjects
- World War I
- Record Source
- Canadian Jewish Military Casualties
- Fonds No.
- CJC0001
- Archival / Genealogical
- Genealogy Records
- Repository
- Canadian Jewish Archives
ENDLEMAN (ENDELMAN), Saul
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/genealogy118
- Collection
- Canadian Jewish Congress organizational records
- Material Type
- textual record
- Archival / Genealogical
- Genealogy Records
- Material Type
- textual record
- Date of Birth
- 1921
- Date of Death
- February 08, 1943
- Place of Burial
- Montreal, Quebec
- Cemetery
- Montreal (Shaar Hashomayim) Cemetery
- Age at Time of Death
- 22
- Enlistment No.
- R-161704
- Rank
- Leading Aircraftman
- Unit
- Royal Canadian Air Force
- Notes
- Leading Aircraftman Saul Endleman of Montreal, Quebec, was killed on active service and was buried with full military honours. Enlisting in the air force in April 1942, Leading Aircraftman Endleman was the air navigator on a training plane which crashed outside Ottawa, Ontario. He was to have received his wings in March 1943.
- Subjects
- World War II
- Record Source
- Canadian Jewish Military Casualties
- Fonds No.
- CJC0001
- Archival / Genealogical
- Genealogy Records
- Repository
- Canadian Jewish Archives
GARBER, Sydney
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/genealogy148
- Collection
- Canadian Jewish Congress organizational records
- Material Type
- textual record
- Archival / Genealogical
- Genealogy Records
- Material Type
- textual record
- Date of Death
- November 24, 1943
- Place of Burial
- Montreal, Quebec
- Cemetery
- Montreal (Baron de Hirsch) Cemetery
- Age at Time of Death
- 20
- Enlistment No.
- D-125330
- Rank
- Private
- Unit
- Royal Canadian Army Medical Corps
- Notes
- Private Sydney Garber was from Montreal, Quebec.
- Subjects
- World War II
- Record Source
- Canadian Jewish Military Casualties
- Fonds No.
- CJC0001
- Archival / Genealogical
- Genealogy Records
- Repository
- Canadian Jewish Archives
GOODMAN, Rose Jette
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/genealogy186
- 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
- February 01, 1943
- Place of Burial
- Montreal, Quebec
- Cemetery
- Montreal (Shaar Hashomayim) Cemetery
- Age at Time of Death
- 23
- Enlistment No.
- J-30156
- Rank
- Section Officer
- Unit
- Royal Canadian Air Force
- Notes
- Section Officer Rose Goodman of New Glasgow, Nova Scotia, was reported killed accidentally (R.C.A.F. Casualty List No. 487), when the Crane training plane in which she was flying from Lethbridge crashed near Claresholm, Alberta. She was the first member of the Women’s Division of the Royal Canadian Air Force to lose her life on active service. Section Officer Goodman enlisted in the R.C.A.F. in October 1941 and received her preliminary training in Toronto, where she was a member of the first glass to graduate from the Administrative Training Course. After serving as sergeant instructress at Moncton, New Brunswick, she was commissioned and was posted to Alberta as adjutant. The New Glasgow News wrote of her passing: “...She made her choice; she has given her life for her country. “She served—and died—that men may fly. “That we may win this war.”
- 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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KIRSCH, Abie (Abraham)
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/genealogy248
- 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
- October 23, 1941
- Place of Burial
- Montreal, Quebec
- Cemetery
- Montreal (Baron de Hirsch) Cemetery
- Age at Time of Death
- 21
- Enlistment No.
- R-77425
- Rank
- Sergeant
- Unit
- Royal Canadian Air Force
- Notes
- Sergeant Abie Kirsch of Montreal, Quebec, was killed in an air crash at St. Martin, Quebec. He was one of four airmen who lost their lives when their Hudson bomber, flying off course and fighting fire and a wind-driven sleety rainstorm, crashed and explored on a farm at St. Martin, a few miles outside Montreal. Enlisting in the air force as a wireless gunner in November 1940, Sergeant Kirsch graduated with the rank of sergeant at Macdonald, Manitoba, in July 1941. A brother, Norman, 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
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KUGELMASS, Jack
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/genealogy264
- 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
- February 13, 1920
- Date of Death
- July 01, 1941
- Place of Burial
- Montreal, Quebec
- Cemetery
- Montreal (Baron de Hirsch) Cemetery
- Age at Time of Death
- 21
- Enlistment No.
- R-77269
- Rank
- Leading Aircraftman
- Unit
- Royal Canadian Air Force
- Notes
- Leading Aircraftman Jack Kugelmass of Montreal, Quebec, was killed in a flying accident. He was in a Cessna training plane on a navigational cross-country flight from No. 4 Service Flying Training School at Saskatoon when it crashed near Shellbrook, Saskatchewan, one hundreds miles north of Saskatoon. Major S.G. Levi, M.B.E., officiated over the funeral rites. Leading Aircraftman Kugelmass enlisted in the air force in August 1940.
- 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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LEVINE, Louis
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/genealogy101568
- Collection
- Canadian Jewish Congress organizational records
- Material Type
- textual record
- Archival / Genealogical
- Genealogy Records
- Material Type
- textual record
- Date of Death
- January 22, 1946
- Place of Burial
- Montreal, Que.
- Cemetery
- Montreal (Baron de Hirsch) Cemetery
- Age at Time of Death
- 36
- Enlistment No.
- D/24033
- Rank
- Corporal
- Unit
- The Royal Canadian Corps of Signals
- Notes
- Son of Morris and Bessie Levine, of Ste. Agathe des Monts; husband of Anne Levine, of Montreal. (Source: The Canadian Virtual War Memorial)
- Record Source
- Canadian Jewish Military Casualties
- Fonds No.
- CJC0001
- Archival / Genealogical
- Genealogy Records
- Repository
- Canadian Jewish Archives
LEVINE, Samuel (Sam) Meyer
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/genealogy284
- 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
- 1914
- Date of Death
- November 18, 1941
- Place of Burial
- Montreal, Quebec
- Cemetery
- Montreal (Baron de Hirsch) Cemetery
- Age at Time of Death
- 27
- Enlistment No.
- R-75129
- Rank
- Sergeant
- Unit
- Royal Canadian Air Force
- Notes
- Sergeant Sam Levine of Montreal, Quebec, who had been listed missing, was reported killed in an air crash (R.C.A.F. Casualty List No. 271) on May 22, 1942. While a student pilot at No. 9 Service Flying Training School at Summerside, Prince Edward Island, he was the lone occupant of a Harvard trainer which crashed off the south coast of P.E.I. on November 18, 1941. His body was brought to Montreal for burial. Maj. S. Gershon Levi, M.B.E., Senior Jewish Chaplain, officiated. Sergeant Levine enlisted in the air force at Montreal in February 1941. He trained at Toronto, Oshawa, Victoriaville and Chatham before he was transferred to Summerside. A brother, Flying Officer Thomas C. Levine, 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
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MORRIS, Lionel Joseph
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/genealogy338
- 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 22, 1922
- Date of Death
- August 07, 1944
- Place of Burial
- Montreal, Quebec
- Cemetery
- Montreal (Shaar Hashomayim) Cemetery
- Age at Time of Death
- 21
- Enlistment No.
- J-44035
- Rank
- Pilot Officer
- Unit
- Royal Canadian Air Force
- Notes
- Pilot Officer Lionel Morris of Montreal, Quebec, was officially reported killed on active service in Canada on August 7, 1944, in a collision of two planes during an operational flight at Greenwood, Nova Scotia. Pilot Officer Morris enlisted in the air force in October 1942 and received his wings and commission in April 1944. A brother, Lieutenant Norman Morris, served in the United States Naval Reserve.
- 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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NEWMAN, Sidney
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/genealogy347
- Collection
- Canadian Jewish Congress organizational records
- Material Type
- textual record
- Archival / Genealogical
- Genealogy Records
- Material Type
- textual record
- Date of Death
- July 20, 1945
- Place of Burial
- Montreal, Quebec
- Cemetery
- Montreal (Baron de Hirsch) Cemetery
- Age at Time of Death
- 36
- Enlistment No.
- D-144716
- Rank
- Private
- Unit
- Royal Canadian Infantry Corps.
- Notes
- Private Sidney Newman of Montreal, Quebec, died in Canada of natural causes according to an official announcement. He enlisted in the army on April 1, 1944.
- Subjects
- World War II
- Record Source
- Canadian Jewish Military Casualties
- Fonds No.
- CJC0001
- Archival / Genealogical
- Genealogy Records
- Repository
- Canadian Jewish Archives
RESNICK, Harold
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/genealogy387
- 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
- 1923
- Date of Death
- June 17, 1941
- Place of Burial
- Montreal, Quebec
- Cemetery
- Montreal (Baron de Hirsch) Cemetery
- Age at Time of Death
- 19
- Enlistment No.
- V-5921
- Rank
- Ordinary Telegraphist
- Unit
- Royal Canadian Naval Volunteer Reserve
- Notes
- Ordinary Telegraphist Harold Resnick of Montreal, Quebec, died at Halifax from injuries suffered on active service. Rabbi S. Gershon Levi, senior Jewish chaplain, officiated at his funeral. Ordinary Telegraphist Resnick enlisted in the navy in June 1940 and was stationed at Halifax.
- 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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REVZEN, Hyman (Hymie)
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/genealogy388
- 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
- June 24, 1924
- Date of Death
- July 27, 1943
- Place of Burial
- Montreal, Quebec
- Cemetery
- Montreal (Baron de Hirsch) Cemetery
- Age at Time of Death
- 19
- Enlistment No.
- R-211022
- Rank
- Aircraftman (Class I)
- Unit
- Royal Canadian Air Force
- Notes
- Aircraftman Hyman Revzen of Montreal, Quebec, was reported killed on active service (R.C.A.F. Casualty List No. 643) on August 3, 1943. He lost his life in a plane crash during target practice at the Bombing and Gunnery School at Mont Joli, Quebec, on July 27, 1943. A brother, Louis Revzen, served in the R.C.A.F. as a wireless air gunner.
- 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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ROSENTHAL, Samuel
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/genealogy407
- Collection
- Canadian Jewish Congress organizational records
- Material Type
- textual record
- Archival / Genealogical
- Genealogy Records
- Material Type
- textual record
- Date of Death
- May 29, 1918
- Place of Burial
- Montreal, Quebec
- Cemetery
- Montreal (Shaar Hashomayim) Cemetery
- Age at Time of Death
- 23
- Enlistment No.
- 154067
- Rank
- Cadet
- Unit
- Royal Air Force
- Notes
- Cadet Samuel Rosenthal was from Montreal, Quebec. (The Gate of Heaven: The story of Congregation Shaar Hashomayim of Mtl, 1846-1996, p.138-139. 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
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
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SISENWAIN (SISSENWEIN, SISENWARM), Louis Ralph
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/genealogy475
- Collection
- Canadian Jewish Congress organizational records
- Material Type
- textual record
- Archival / Genealogical
- Genealogy Records
- Material Type
- textual record
- Date of Death
- October 10, 1918
- Place of Burial
- Montreal, Quebec
- Cemetery
- Montreal (Shaar Hashomayim) Cemetery
- Age at Time of Death
- 22
- Enlistment No.
- 151174
- Rank
- Corporal
- Unit
- Royal Air Force, Recruits Depot
- Notes
- Corporal Louis Sisenwain was from Toronto, Ontario. (Sources: The Gate of Heaven: The Story of Congregation Shaar Hashomayim of Montreal, 1846-1996, p.138-139. 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
STEINBERG, Abraham
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/genealogy505
- Collection
- Canadian Jewish Congress organizational records
- Material Type
- textual record
- Archival / Genealogical
- Genealogy Records
- Material Type
- textual record
- Date of Death
- January 21, 1944
- Place of Burial
- Montreal, Quebec
- Cemetery
- Montreal (Baron de Hirsch) Cemetery
- Age at Time of Death
- 40
- Rank
- Captain
- Unit
- Canadian Army Dental Corps
- Notes
- Captain Abraham Steinberg of Montreal, Quebec, was killed in a plane crash near Lake Berube, Quebec, while on his way to Ancienne Lorette from Bagotville on January 21, 1944. Captain Steinberg enlisted with the Canadian Army Dental Corps on January 21, 1942. He was attached to the R.C.A.F. and at the time of his death was on his way home on leave.
- Subjects
- World War II
- Record Source
- Canadian Jewish Military Casualties
- Fonds No.
- CJC0001
- Archival / Genealogical
- Genealogy Records
- Repository
- Canadian Jewish Archives
STEIN, Wilfred
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/genealogy503
- 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
- April 23, 1906
- Date of Death
- January 11, 1944
- Place of Burial
- Montreal, Quebec
- Cemetery
- Montreal (Mount Royal) Cemetery
- Age at Time of Death
- 38
- Enlistment No.
- R-108020
- Rank
- Corporal
- Unit
- Royal Canadian Air Force
- Notes
- Corporal Wilfred Stein of Montreal, Quebec, died at St. Johns, Quebec, of natural causes on January 11, 1944. He was buried with full military honours, with Rabbi Harry J. Stern officiating. Corporal Stein enlisted in the air force in June 1941 and was posted to No. 9 Repair Depot in St. Johns.
- 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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STROMBERG, Bennie
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/genealogy513
- Collection
- Canadian Jewish Congress organizational records
- Material Type
- textual record
- Archival / Genealogical
- Genealogy Records
- Material Type
- textual record
- Date of Death
- May 08, 1943
- Place of Burial
- Montreal, Quebec
- Cemetery
- Montreal (Baron de Hirsch) Cemetery
- Age at Time of Death
- 19
- Enlistment No.
- R-141691
- Rank
- Sergeant
- Unit
- Royal Canadian Air Force
- Notes
- Sergeant Bennie Stromberg of Montreal, Quebec, was killed when his plane, on a routine flight, crashed into the Miramichi River at Bay du Vin. At the time of his death, Sergeant Stromberg was stationed at No. 10 Air Observers School at Chatham, New Brunswick.
- Subjects
- World War II
- Record Source
- Canadian Jewish Military Casualties
- Fonds No.
- CJC0001
- Archival / Genealogical
- Genealogy Records
- Repository
- Canadian Jewish Archives
WEISS, Herbert Stanley
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/genealogy541
- 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
- December 13, 1923
- Date of Death
- February 04, 1945
- Place of Burial
- Montreal, Quebec
- Age at Time of Death
- 21
- Enlistment No.
- J-47055
- Rank
- Pilot Officer
- Unit
- Royal Canadian Air Force
- Notes
- Pilot Officer Herbert Stanley Weiss of Montreal, Quebec, was killed in a flying accident in British Columbia on February 4, 1945. Enlisting in the air force at Montreal in January 1943, he trained at Dartmouth, Yarmouth, and Calgary and received his navigator’s wings at Mountain View in June 1944. The following month he was commissioned at Saint John. He was stationed for a time at Boundary Bay, British Columbia, and at the time of his death was flying out of Abbotsford, British Columbia.
- 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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ZEVEN, Abraham
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/genealogy569
- Collection
- Canadian Jewish Congress organizational records
- Material Type
- textual record
- Archival / Genealogical
- Genealogy Records
- Material Type
- textual record
- Date of Death
- December 23, 1919
- Place of Burial
- Montreal, Quebec
- Age at Time of Death
- 21
- Enlistment No.
- 491454
- Rank
- Private
- Unit
- Canadian Infantry (Quebec Regiment)
- Notes
- Private Abraham Zeven was the son of Hillel and Peche Zeven of Montreal, Quebec. He was born in Kiev, Russia.
- Subjects
- World War I
- Record Source
- Canadian Jewish Military Casualties
- Fonds No.
- CJC0001
- Archival / Genealogical
- Genealogy Records
- Repository
- Canadian Jewish Archives
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