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FINKELSTEIN, Harry (Harry Kel) : Poetry, Biography: Holocaust, Post-War.

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Collection
FINKELSTEIN, Harry (Harry Kel) : Poetry, Biography: Holocaust, Post-War.
Description Level
Fonds
Physical Description
Env. 0.03 metres of textual records.
Fonds No.
P0204
Date
1991-2005.
Scope and Content
Self-published spiral bound volume of poetry, c. 200 pages, 1991-1995, themes of Holocaust and depression. Biography from www.harrykel.com (illustrated) about parents in Poland, Auschwitz-Birkenau, Wolfrathshausen DP camp, and author in Montreal and Toronto.
Collection
FINKELSTEIN, Harry (Harry Kel) : Poetry, Biography: Holocaust, Post-War.
Description Level
Fonds
Physical Description
Env. 0.03 metres of textual records.
Scope and Content
Self-published spiral bound volume of poetry, c. 200 pages, 1991-1995, themes of Holocaust and depression. Biography from www.harrykel.com (illustrated) about parents in Poland, Auschwitz-Birkenau, Wolfrathshausen DP camp, and author in Montreal and Toronto.
Date
1991-2005.
Fonds No.
P0204
History / Biographical
Harry "Kel" Finkelstein was born in 1947 in the Wolfrathshuasen DP camp to Polish parents from the town Zdunska-Wola, who had survived Auschwitz-Birkenau. He came to Canada (Montreal) at the age of one, in 1948. After working in textiles with his father, they later moved to Toronto. Harry Finkelstein writes of his struggles with bipolar disorder, which affected his career and coloured his prolific poetry writing. His website "www.harrykel.org" reflects his concerns with the Holocaust and its after-effects.
Custodial History
The collection was donated to the Archives on Nov. 9, 2005, by Harry Finkelstein.
Notes
P04/14, ZB.Testimony of the child of survivors including reference to the effect of the Holocaust on the author's mental state. He relates the pain of bi-polar depression to the feelings invoked by the events of war.
Archival / Genealogical
Archival Descriptions
Repository
Canadian Jewish Archives
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