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Bergen-Belsen Survivors Association of Montreal
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn38264
- Collection
- Bergen-Belsen Survivors Association of Montreal
- Description Level
- Fonds
- Material Type
- multiple media
- Physical Description
- 0.3m. multiple media
- Fonds No.
- 1006
- Scope and Content
- Consists of mainly textual records of association activities such as membership lists, anniversary gatherings, etc. Includes correspondence and scrapbooks.
- Description Level
- Fonds
- Material Type
- multiple media
- Physical Description
- 0.3m. multiple media
- Scope and Content
- Consists of mainly textual records of association activities such as membership lists, anniversary gatherings, etc. Includes correspondence and scrapbooks.
- Fonds No.
- 1006
- Storage Location
- 1-2B
- History / Biographical
- At the initiative of Joseph Rosensaft a meeting was held in New York in December 1961 of Bergen-Belsen survivors. It was decided at that time that a World Federation of Bergen-Belsen survivors would be formed with associations in all cities where there were numbers of survivors present. As a result in early 1962 an association was formed in Montreal with Paul Trepman as president. The aims were the following: A. Making sure that neither the world nor the Jews ever forgot the Holocaust; B. Wage a continuous fight against Neo-Nazi groups and organizations; C. Offer brotherly aid to former Bergen-Belsen inmates who are in need; D. Keep alive the heroic and rich Bergen-Belsen tradition. The association met a number of times a year, although the main focus was the Liberation Rally, which took place on or around April 15th, the date of the Bergen-Belsen camp was liberated by the armed forces. Some of the other activities of the association were the erection of a monument in a local Jewish cemetery and a trip back to Belsen on the 25th anniversary of the liberation.
- Language
- English
- Yiddish
- French
- Custodial History
- Transferred by Paul Trepman, former director of the Jewish Public Library and a leader in the Bergen-Belsen Survivors Association.
- Reproduction Restrictions
- May contain materials restricted due to Copyright.
- Subjects
- Bergen Belsen (Germany: Concentration camp)
- Bergen-Belsen Survivors Association
- Displaced persons
- Trepman, Paul.
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Jewish Public Library Archives
Bialystoker Centre of Montreal
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn17519
- Collection
- Bialystoker Centre of Montreal Fonds
- Description Level
- Fonds
- Material Type
- textual record
- Physical Description
- 0.5m textual material
- Fonds No.
- 1238
- Scope and Content
- Consists of financial and administrative records as well as correspondence sent and received by the organization.
- Collection
- Bialystoker Centre of Montreal Fonds
- Description Level
- Fonds
- Material Type
- textual record
- Physical Description
- 0.5m textual material
- Scope and Content
- Consists of financial and administrative records as well as correspondence sent and received by the organization.
- Fonds No.
- 1238
- Storage Location
- JPL
- History / Biographical
- The Centre was officially established in January 1944, the Women's Committee was established in the spring of the same year. Membership consisted of 300 people. The aim of the Centre was to provide help to Bialystok survivors of the War. Contacted through newspapers in Europe the survivors wrote to the Centre, identifying themselves as Bialystokers. Every letter was answered and packages of food, clothes, and money were sent back to them. Money was raised either through membership dues or by private donations. Teas, raffles, souvenir albums were also organized as fundraisers. The Centre cooperated with other relief agencies in Montreal, especially the Federation of Polish Jews. It also maintained contact with Bialystoker Centers around the world. The Centre's most active years were from 1945 to 1955. It was never officially disbanded. As of 1986, members were still receiving letters.
- Language
- Yiddish; English; Polish
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Jewish Public Library Archives
Boris Rubinstein Fonds
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn93150
- Collection
- Boris Rubinstein Fonds
- Description Level
- Fonds
- Material Type
- textual record
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- 0.2 linear metres of multiple media
- Fonds No.
- 1375
- Date
- 1928-1983
- Scope and Content
- Consists of documentation of Boris Rubinstein's work with the UNRRA mission in the former Yugoslavia, such as reports and publications, as well as personal correspondence, photographs, and documentation of Mr. Rubinstein's time in the Canadian Army.
- Collection
- Boris Rubinstein Fonds
- Description Level
- Fonds
- Material Type
- textual record
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- 0.2 linear metres of multiple media
- Scope and Content
- Consists of documentation of Boris Rubinstein's work with the UNRRA mission in the former Yugoslavia, such as reports and publications, as well as personal correspondence, photographs, and documentation of Mr. Rubinstein's time in the Canadian Army.
- Date
- 1928-1983
- Fonds No.
- 1375
- Storage Location
- Ctn. 001
- 3-1C
- History / Biographical
- Boris Rubinstein was born in Proskurov, Austria on March 25, 1910 to Leib and Chaya (nee Guz) Rubinstein. At age 20, Mr. Rubinstein immigrated to Canada, arriving in Montreal in 1930 where he joined his brother Sam who was already living in the city. Mr. Rubinstein attended McGill University for a period. In 1939, Mr. Rubinstein enlisted in the Canadian Army, serving in the signal and intelligence crops. He was present at Dieppe and was amongst the first Canadian soldiers that entered Nazi concentration camps in Poland. After the war, Mr. Rubinstein worked for the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation organization, particularly as part of the Yugoslavian mission. While working for UNRRA, he was able to locate and secure immigration for 10 of his surviving family members, each of whom had been in concentration camps during the war. According to his obituary, in his role with UNRRA Mr. Rubinstein was able to negotiate with Romanian Communist leader Ana Pauker for a train of Jewish orphans to be diverted from Romania to Palestine, rather than to the Soviet Union. Upon his return to Montreal, Mr. Rubinstein opened a jewellery company with his brother Hyman, who had survived concentration camps during the war. Their company, Rubros Company, was marketed as "society jewellers" and counted amongst their clients numerous high profile personalities, such as Tony Bennett and Prime Minister Pierre Elliot Trudeau. Mr. Rubinstein passed away from cancer in Montreal in 1983.
- Language
- English
- Yiddish
- Russian
- Slovenian
- Bosnian
- Name Access
- Rubinstein, Boris, 1910-1983
- Subjects
- Yugoslavia -- Jews.
- Refugees
- Refugee camps.
- Displaced person camp
- Displaced persons
- United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Agency
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Jewish Public Library Archives
Farband of Warsaw Jews
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn68834
- Collection
- Farband of Warsaw Jews
- Description Level
- Fonds
- Material Type
- textual record
- Physical Description
- 0.7 linear metres of texual records
- Fonds No.
- 1015
- Collection
- Farband of Warsaw Jews
- Description Level
- Fonds
- Material Type
- textual record
- Physical Description
- 0.7 linear metres of texual records
- Fonds No.
- 1015
- Storage Location
- 1-3C
- Language
- English
- Yiddish
- French
- Custodial History
- Donated by Abba Igelfeld
- Access Restrictions
- Some privacy restrictions may apply.
- Reproduction Restrictions
- Some copyright restrictions may apply.
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Jewish Public Library Archives
Jewish Labour Committee Fonds
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn68993
- Collection
- Jewish Labour Committee Fonds
- Description Level
- Fonds
- Material Type
- textual record
- Physical Description
- 0.9 m of textual records
- Fonds No.
- 1023
- Scope and Content
- This fond consists mainly of working documents such as correspondence and financial papers, predominantly from the late 1940s to the 1970s. The documents deals with the advocacy activities of the JLC such as bringing refugees over to Montreal and later raising money to aid Pakistani refugees. Hig…
- Collection
- Jewish Labour Committee Fonds
- Description Level
- Fonds
- Material Type
- textual record
- Physical Description
- 0.9 m of textual records
- Scope and Content
- This fond consists mainly of working documents such as correspondence and financial papers, predominantly from the late 1940s to the 1970s. The documents deals with the advocacy activities of the JLC such as bringing refugees over to Montreal and later raising money to aid Pakistani refugees. Highlights of the fonds include correspondence between David Lewis, then secretary of the CCF, his father Moishe Lewis, and Kalman Kaplansky, both labour leaders in Montreal’s Workmen’s Circle and JLC.
- Fonds No.
- 1023
- Storage Location
- JPL
- History / Biographical
- In 1934, leaders in the International Ladies Garment Workers’ Union, the Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America, the Workmen’s Circle, the Jewish Daily Forward Association, the Jewish Socialist Verband and others gathered in New York’s lower east side to form the Jewish Labor Committee. The formation of the JLC was in response to the ever-growing threat of fascism in Europe. The group publicly campaigned to raise awareness of the plight of European Jewry, raised funds for partisan fighters, brought over thousands of political and cultural leaders – both Jews and non-Jews, and immediately after the war assisted in relief efforts and provided support in bringing over refugees. Jewish Labour Committees both in the United States and Canada extended their wartime work in the 1950s by campaigning against discrimination among workers as well as human rights activism on a global scale. In Montreal, the Jewish Labour Committee actively participated in pressuring the government to adopt human rights legislation at the provincial level. In 1947, the Canadian government selected two members of the JLC, Bernard Shane and Maurice Silcoff, to travel to Europe to select skilled immigrants as refugees. Both men were temporarily named colonels of the Canadian army so that they could travel more easily across war ravaged Europe. The task of bringing over skilled garment workers to Canada was no mean feat but the efforts had far reaching implications since workers were then able to bring over family members. The Jewish Labor Committee of Canada Bulletin for 1975, on reporting the death of Bernard Shane, placed the number of families brought to Canada through the work of the JLC at over 2,000.
- Language
- English
- Yiddish
- French
- Access Restrictions
- Some material restricted due to privacy.
- Related Material
- Workmen's Circle Fonds
- CCF Fonds (Small Collections)
- Lea Roback Fonds
- Accession No.
- 00-078
- Subjects
- Labour
- Labour and labouring classes
- Labour leaders
- Labour movement
- Displaced persons
- Refugee camps.
- Tailors
- Jewish Labour Committee (Montreal, Quebec)
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Jewish Public Library Archives
Lokaj Family Collection
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn93517
- Collection
- Lokaj Family Collection
- Description Level
- Fonds
- Material Type
- textual record
- Physical Description
- 1 file of textual material
- Fonds No.
- 1338
- Date
- 1944
- Scope and Content
- The Lokaj Family Collection contains two copies of certificates of identity issued by the Allied Commision for Austria, one for Lola Lokaj (nee Klinger) and another for Chaim Lokaj
- Collection
- Lokaj Family Collection
- Description Level
- Fonds
- Material Type
- textual record
- Physical Description
- 1 file of textual material
- Scope and Content
- The Lokaj Family Collection contains two copies of certificates of identity issued by the Allied Commision for Austria, one for Lola Lokaj (nee Klinger) and another for Chaim Lokaj
- Date
- 1944
- Fonds No.
- 1338
- Storage Location
- JPL
- Name Access
- Lokaj, Lola (nee Klinger).
- Lokaj, Chaim
- Subjects
- Displaced persons
- World War, 1939-1945
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Jewish Public Library Archives
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