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COHEN, Syd (Sidney)
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/genealogy88
- 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
- 1922
- Date of Death
- March 15, 1943
- Place of Burial
- Winnipeg, Manitoba
- 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
Images
GROSSMAN, Samuel
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/genealogy206
- 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
- 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
Images
The Jewish Post
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn51193
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- textual record
- Physical Description
- Newspaper : Paper : Printed : Ink : Black, White ; Ht: 15 in. x W: 11,25 in.
- Date
- May 27, 1943
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- textual record
- Physical Description
- Newspaper : Paper : Printed : Ink : Black, White ; Ht: 15 in. x W: 11,25 in.
- Other Title Information
- Documentary Artifact
- Date
- May 27, 1943
- Physical Condition
- Good
- Language
- English
- Notes
- Front page has an illustration of a man wearing a suit and tie. Articles relating the war and Jewish concerns. Includes article “Samuel Zygelbojm, Member Of Polish Council, Dies At 49”. Narrative: Szmul Zygielbojm (1895–1943) was a Jewish-Polish socialist politician, leader of the Bund, and a member of the National Council of the Polish government in exile. He committed suicide to protest the indifference of the Allied governments to the Holocaust.
- Accession No.
- 2011X.223.01
- Name Access
- Lithwick, David
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
Images
Letter
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn76205
- 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
- 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
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
Images
Max Nordau
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn44397
- Collection
- CONGREGATION SHAAR HASHOMAYIM MUSEUM AND ARCHIVES
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- Art : Pottery : colour ; Ht:32.5 cm vertical diameter x W:26.5 cm horizontal diameter
- Fonds No.
- SH-01; 851
- Date
- [ca. 1906]
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- Art : Pottery : colour ; Ht:32.5 cm vertical diameter x W:26.5 cm horizontal diameter
- Date
- [ca. 1906]
- Fonds No.
- SH-01
- Item No.
- 851
- Physical Condition
- Excellent
- Notes
- Wall Plaque, tin-plate pottery.
- Places
- Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Congregation Shaar Hashomayim Museum and Archives
Images
SLOTIN, Louis (Dr.)
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/genealogy480
- 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 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.
- Subjects
- World War II
- Record Source
- Canadian Jewish Military Casualties
- Fonds No.
- CJC0001
- Archival / Genealogical
- Genealogy Records
- Repository
- Canadian Jewish Archives
Images
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