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Kriger Family fonds

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Collection
Kriger Family fonds
Description Level
Fonds
Fonds No.
I0139
Date
1944-2012 (with gaps)
Scope and Content
Fonds consists of: A newspaper article on Diane Kriger winning a 1950's Ottawa Jewish Bulletin "Beautiful Baby" contest; A ritual shoichet knife used by Max Movshovitz when he was a shoichet in Carleton Place; Two email printouts discussing Kriger family history - 2011/2012; A letter in Yiddish…
Collection
Kriger Family fonds
Description Level
Fonds
Scope and Content
Fonds consists of: A newspaper article on Diane Kriger winning a 1950's Ottawa Jewish Bulletin "Beautiful Baby" contest; A ritual shoichet knife used by Max Movshovitz when he was a shoichet in Carleton Place; Two email printouts discussing Kriger family history - 2011/2012; A letter in Yiddish along with its translation. The letter was used to wrap up the shoichet knife. It asks for people to come hear a man who witnessed first hand the horrors of a Russian death camp - 1944; Maps, tickets and other souvenirs from Maynard and Shirley from their trip to the USSR - 1989; A prayer book given as a Bar Mitzvah gift to Akiva Kriger or Maynard Kriger. The book seller is Tzvi Gozowitz (Gosewitz). - 1934 or 1937 Two Ottawa Kosher Catering seals A blue Hillel Academy sweater owned by David Kriger c.1968 6 pins owned by Dora Lepidus Kriger for various Jewish organizations.
Jewih Hospital of Hope - Life Member
Womens War Work - CRCS
Mizrachi Hapoel Hamizrachi - Mother in Israel
Mizrachi Hapoel Hamizrachi - Life Member
Hadassah Wizo 40 years
Hadassah Wizo MOA Ma' Alot Slide rule owned by Akiva Kriger
Date
1944-2012 (with gaps)
Fonds No.
I0139
Storage Location
B.4.4
History / Biographical
Akiva Kriger and his wife Shirley Kriger (nee Shirley Movshovitz) grew up in Carleton Place and Brockville in the Ottawa Valley. In 1989, about a month before the fall of the Berlin Wall, they and another couple, Morton Taller and Sally Taller, took a trip to the USSR and wrote a lengthy article about it for the Ottawa Jewish Bulletin. Akiva and Shirley had a son, David Kriger (b. 1956), who was married to Susan Kriger (nee Susan Ain). Shirley's father Max Movshovitz (b. Yakobovi, Lithuania ca. 1887 - d. 1981) was a merchant in Carleton Place. Max and his wife (b. Gorzdh, Lithuania) would get their kosher meat from Ottawa and it would be delivered by bus or by train. The one exception was poultry which Max slaughtered himself (the Archives has his shoichet knife). This is how it was up until about the 1940's. Max has a shoichet's certificate (now lost) in Yiddish which he received from his local yeshiva in Lithuania some time before he came to North America through Ellis Island ca. 1910. The Movshovitz's lived in Carleton Place from 1917-1976.
Notes
1. When the shoichet knife was donated to the Archives it was wrapped in a typed Yiddish letter inviting all who wanted to, to come to a Montreal synagogue to listen to an eye witness from the Holocaust tell of the horrors he has seen first-hand - 1944. 2. Diane Kriger was the posthumous author of a book called, "Sex Rewarded, Sex Punished." 3. Bar Mitzvah book and Ottawa Kosher Catering seals donated by Susan Kriger, Dec. 2021 4. Sweater, pins, and slide ruler donated by David and Susan Kriger Feb. 2022
Archival / Genealogical
Archival Descriptions
Repository
Ottawa Jewish Archives
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6 membership pins

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Collection
Kriger Family fonds
Description Level
Item
Material Type
object
Fonds No.
I0139; 1-139-01-01
Scope and Content
6 pins consist of Jewish Hospital of Hope - Life Member; Womens War Work - CRCS; Mizrachi Hapoel Hamizrachi - Mother in Israel; Mizrachi Hapoel Hamizrachi - Life Member; Hadassah Wizo 40 years; Hadassah Wizo MOA Ma' Alot
Collection
Kriger Family fonds
Description Level
Item
Material Type
object
Scope and Content
6 pins consist of Jewish Hospital of Hope - Life Member; Womens War Work - CRCS; Mizrachi Hapoel Hamizrachi - Mother in Israel; Mizrachi Hapoel Hamizrachi - Life Member; Hadassah Wizo 40 years; Hadassah Wizo MOA Ma' Alot
Fonds No.
I0139
Item No.
1-139-01-01
History / Biographical
Dora Lepidus Kriger, 1896-1986, was born in Belarus, was brought to NYC as an infant, and spent her adolescence and the first several years of her marriage to Jacob Kriger, 1893-1965, in Ottawa. The family relocated to Brockville in 1930 so that Jacob could find work during the Depression. They started a ladies’ wear store at that time. After Dora and Maynard closed the store in 1974, they both moved back to Ottawa where they were members of Congregation Beth Shalom. All are buried at the Bank Street cemetery.
Custodial History
Pins were owned by Dora Ledpidus Kriger
Notes
Accession numbers 1-139-10-10 to 1-139-01-06
Archival / Genealogical
Archival Descriptions
Repository
Ottawa Jewish Archives
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Slide Ruler

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Collection
Kriger Family fonds
Description Level
Item
Material Type
object
Fonds No.
I0139; 1-139-02
Collection
Kriger Family fonds
Description Level
Item
Material Type
object
Fonds No.
I0139
Item No.
1-139-02
History / Biographical
Akiva Kriger (1924-2011) was a prominent local structural engineer. He was born in Ottawa and grew up in Brockville. The first in his family to attend university (graduating from Queen's University in 1947), Akiva spent most of his career in Ottawa. He worked on the structural design of schools, hospitals and other structures in Ottawa, eastern Ontario and west Québec. His work includes several of Ottawa's synagogues and the original Hillel Lodge building on Wurtemburg Street. He worked closely with the city's Jewish architects, whom he counted among his closest friends. Akiva felt strongly about supporting the Jewish community, and was generous with his professional time. His son David, also an engineer, recalls that part of Akiva's routine at Shabbat morning services was to check in with the synagogue's caretaker staff on how the building was doing. Prior to the introduction of calculators and computers, engineers relied on slide rulers to make their calculations. This is Akiva's slide rule. It is in a leather case, with his initials on it, and was used to design many buildings that continue to serve Ottawa's Jewish institutions today.
Archival / Genealogical
Archival Descriptions
Repository
Ottawa Jewish Archives
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Talmud Torah or Hillel graduating class photo.

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Collection
Kriger Family fonds
Description Level
Item
Material Type
graphic material
Physical Description
1 photograph : col.
Fonds No.
I0139; OJA 1-1202
Date
[between 1964 and 1967]
Collection
Kriger Family fonds
Description Level
Item
Material Type
graphic material
Physical Description
1 photograph : col.
Date
[between 1964 and 1967]
Fonds No.
I0139
Item No.
OJA 1-1202
Storage Location
vault
Acquisition Source
David Kriger
Notes
David identified the man in the front, centre as Ephraim Frankel, director of education at Hillel until 1968 when he left for Atlanta.
Archival / Genealogical
Archival Descriptions
Repository
Ottawa Jewish Archives
Images
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Diane Kriger.

https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn107505
Collection
Kriger Family fonds
Description Level
Item
Material Type
graphic material
Physical Description
1 photograph : b&w
Fonds No.
I0139; OJA 1-1203
Date
1952
Collection
Kriger Family fonds
Description Level
Item
Material Type
graphic material
Physical Description
1 photograph : b&w
Date
1952
Fonds No.
I0139
Item No.
OJA 1-1203
Storage Location
vault
Notes
Diane is six to nine months old in the image. She was the winner of the Ottawa Jewish Bulletin's "Beautiful Baby" contest.
Archival / Genealogical
Archival Descriptions
Repository
Ottawa Jewish Archives
Images
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