Anna and Samuel Lazear fonds
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- Collection
- Anna and Samuel Lazear fonds
- Description Level
- Fonds
- Physical Description
- 1 folder
- Fonds No.
- I0018
- Date
- 1927
- Scope and Content
- Fonds consists of Russian passports of Samuel Lazaer and Anna, Arthur and Sonia Lazear, 1927. Each passport contains a studio photograph.
- Collection
- Anna and Samuel Lazear fonds
- Description Level
- Fonds
- Physical Description
- 1 folder
- Scope and Content
- Fonds consists of Russian passports of Samuel Lazaer and Anna, Arthur and Sonia Lazear, 1927. Each passport contains a studio photograph.
- Date
- 1927
- Fonds No.
- I0018
- Storage Location
- A.1.1 - Individuals Boxes
- History / Biographical
- Anna (Kentorowitz) Lazear (b. 1902) and Samuel Lazear (b.1895- d.1959) and their two children Arthur (b.1926- d. 2001) and Sonia (b.1923) travelled from Minsk to Riga, Latvia, and on to England. They arrived at Quebec City on the Montairn in October, 1927. They were sponsored by Anna’s brother David, deputy mayor of Newark, New Jersey, and Samuel’s brothers in Pittsburg, Pennsylvania. The United States was their first choice but immigration restrictions prevented that destination.The family had a distant cousin in Ottawa who initially accommodated the Lazears along with Anna’s brother Arthur and sister Sonia who also made the voyage. Samuel Lazear was a salesman in a By Ward Market shop. In later years he and Anna opened a small jewellery shop called The Jewel Box. Anna was very active in World War II volunteer work and is remembered as a “very kind and generous person”.
- Acquisition Source
- Sonia Shaffer (Lazear)
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Ottawa Jewish Archives
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