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Adele Druckman-Kinsbrunner Fonds

https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn89982
Collection
Adele Druckman-Kinsbrunner Fonds
Description Level
Fonds
Material Type
textual record
graphic material
artefact
Physical Description
0.16 linear feet of textual records, graphic material, and artefacts.
Fonds No.
1416
Date
1921-1968
Scope and Content
Includes nine files, consisting of biographia, professional documents, immigration records, World War II identity cards, and embroidered pillowcase, and a yellow star, as well as a biography written by her children.
Collection
Adele Druckman-Kinsbrunner Fonds
Description Level
Fonds
Material Type
textual record
graphic material
artefact
Physical Description
0.16 linear feet of textual records, graphic material, and artefacts.
Scope and Content
Includes nine files, consisting of biographia, professional documents, immigration records, World War II identity cards, and embroidered pillowcase, and a yellow star, as well as a biography written by her children.
Date
1921-1968
Fonds No.
1416
Storage Location
JPL
History / Biographical
Adele Druckman was born in Dorna Candrenilor near Vatra-Dornia, Romania, in 1894. At eighteen years old, she attended a school called Jaures-Zeugnis in the town of Chernovitz. In 1938, at 44, she was married to Isaac Kinsbrunner, a businessman in Chernovitz, which was under control of the Nazis. As Jews, they had to wear a yellow star and carry an identity card. After the Germans were defeated, the Soviets took over. Most of their family was gone, and they struggled to start again. Finally, in 1949 they decided to leave and emigrate to Paris. Adele packed her monogrammed linen, and hid her diamond engagement ring as well as an unmounted diamond. Isaac's cousin had moved to Canada in 1913, so they went to the Canadian Legation in Paris for permission to immigrate. They were required to leave by January 1950, and so booked passage on the Samaria to arrive in Halifax on February 9, 1950. They were met by Isaac's cousin, Sydney Brown, ne Kinsbrunner, and his wife Jessie Cohen, who took them to Sydney's shop in Montreal at 4464 Coloniale Avenue. Unfortunately, Isaac suffered a heart attack and died, having only been in Canada for 12 days, devastating Adele. Sydney and Jessie had two sons, aged 5 and 7, who helped Adele learn English using their schoolbooks, building on the French she had learned in Paris. Sydney learned of a job as a nurse's aid at the Mount Sinai Sanitorium in Ste Agathe, a village north of Montreal, which Adele took to immediately. She was well suited to comfort the patients and enjoyed the peace of the countryside. Adele was often included in Brown family events, including Passover and Rosh Hashana, and she even undertook a trip to Brooklyn, New York, to visit Sydney's sister, Pearl. She was required to provide an explanation for her lack of a passport, but was fortunate enough to have been able to bring her birth certificate from Romania. The Brown family often visisted Ste Agathe to visit, until Adele retired at 74, after 18 years at the Sanitorium. Upon retirement, Adele returned to Montreal, where Sydney helped her find a small apartment on Cote St Luc road next to a synagogue. Sydney's sons, meanwhile, had grown up and become both doctors. They both got married in the same week, and Ida offered her engagement ring to the elder son, while the younger son was offered the unmounted diamond. (Biographical note taken from file 00001.)
Language
English
Romanian
Arrangement
Physical order imposed by archivist.
Accession No.
19-005
Subjects
Romania -- Jews.
Immigrants
Immigrants - Quebec (Province) - Montreal
Identification cards
Star of David
Archival / Genealogical
Archival Descriptions
Repository
Jewish Public Library Archives
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Biographia.

https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn89986
Collection
Adele Druckman-Kinsbrunner Fonds
Description Level
Fonds
Material Type
textual record
Physical Description
1 file of textual records.
Fonds No.
1416; 00004
Date
1921-1952
Collection
Adele Druckman-Kinsbrunner Fonds
Description Level
Fonds
Material Type
textual record
Physical Description
1 file of textual records.
Date
1921-1952
Fonds No.
1416
File No.
00004
Storage Location
JPL
Ctn. 001
Physical Condition
Good
Language
English
Notes
Includes travel permits in lieu of a passport, and Isak's burial record from Paperman & Son's.
Accession No.
19-005
Subjects
Romania -- Jews.
Immigrants
Immigrants - Quebec (Province) - Montreal
Archival / Genealogical
Archival Descriptions
Repository
Jewish Public Library Archives
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Biographical material.

https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn93263
Collection
Zryl and Goldblum Collection
Description Level
File
Material Type
textual record
Physical Description
1 file of textual records.
Fonds No.
1384; 00001
Date
1915-1996
Scope and Content
Includes immigration identification cards, medical examination cards, passports, citizenship and naturalization paperwork, ship tickets, monument paperwork for cemetary, attestation of declaration of marriage, and other biographical material.
Collection
Zryl and Goldblum Collection
Description Level
File
Material Type
textual record
Physical Description
1 file of textual records.
Scope and Content
Includes immigration identification cards, medical examination cards, passports, citizenship and naturalization paperwork, ship tickets, monument paperwork for cemetary, attestation of declaration of marriage, and other biographical material.
Date
1915-1996
Fonds No.
1384
File No.
00001
Storage Location
JPL
Creator
Sam Zryl and Lucy Goldblum
Physical Condition
Poor to good.
Language
English
French
Russian
Yiddish
Subjects
Europe
Immigrants
Immigrants - Canada
Immigrants, Polish - Canada
Immigrants - Quebec (Province) - Montreal
Archival / Genealogical
Archival Descriptions
Repository
Jewish Public Library Archives
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Biographical material.

https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn93271
Collection
Luba Miller Fonds
Description Level
File
Material Type
textual record
Physical Description
1 file of textual records.
Fonds No.
1392; 00001
Date
1922-1931
Collection
Luba Miller Fonds
Description Level
File
Material Type
textual record
Physical Description
1 file of textual records.
Date
1922-1931
Fonds No.
1392
File No.
00001
Storage Location
JPL
Physical Condition
Poor
Language
Russian
Polish
Yiddish
Notes
Biographical material related by official documents and one handwritten letter. Ms. Miller unsure of what the documents say, translation is being arranged.
Name Access
Miller, Luba (nee Shulman)
Subjects
Immigrants - Quebec (Province) - Montreal
Places
Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
Archival / Genealogical
Archival Descriptions
Repository
Jewish Public Library Archives
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Biography, as written by donor.

https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn89983
Collection
Adele Druckman-Kinsbrunner Fonds
Description Level
Fonds
Material Type
textual record
Physical Description
1 file of textual records.
Fonds No.
1416; 00001
Date
2019
Scope and Content
Also contains family tree.
Collection
Adele Druckman-Kinsbrunner Fonds
Description Level
Fonds
Material Type
textual record
Physical Description
1 file of textual records.
Scope and Content
Also contains family tree.
Date
2019
Fonds No.
1416
File No.
00001
Storage Location
JPL
Ctn. 001
Physical Condition
Good
Language
English
Notes
Produced by donor, Jill Johnson, the wife of Sydney Brown's oldest son.
Accession No.
19-005
Subjects
Romania -- Jews.
Immigrants
Immigrants - Quebec (Province) - Montreal
Archival / Genealogical
Archival Descriptions
Repository
Jewish Public Library Archives
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Employment records.

https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn89988
Collection
Adele Druckman-Kinsbrunner Fonds
Description Level
Fonds
Material Type
textual record
Physical Description
1 file of textual records.
Fonds No.
1416; 00006
Date
1963-1968
Collection
Adele Druckman-Kinsbrunner Fonds
Description Level
Fonds
Material Type
textual record
Physical Description
1 file of textual records.
Date
1963-1968
Fonds No.
1416
File No.
00006
Storage Location
JPL
Ctn. 001
Physical Condition
Fair
Language
English
Notes
Three letters from the Mount Sinai Sanitorium in Ste-Agathe.
Accession No.
19-005
Subjects
Romania -- Jews.
Immigrants
Immigrants - Quebec (Province) - Montreal
Archival / Genealogical
Archival Descriptions
Repository
Jewish Public Library Archives
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Identification cards, World War II.

https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn89984
Collection
Adele Druckman-Kinsbrunner Fonds
Description Level
Fonds
Material Type
textual record
artefact
Physical Description
1 file of textual records. 1 yellow Star of David.
Fonds No.
1416; 00002
Date
1941
Collection
Adele Druckman-Kinsbrunner Fonds
Description Level
Fonds
Material Type
textual record
artefact
Physical Description
1 file of textual records. 1 yellow Star of David.
Date
1941
Fonds No.
1416
File No.
00002
Storage Location
JPL
Ctn. 001
Physical Condition
Fair
Language
English
Notes
Cards issued in 1941 for Adela Kinsbrunner and Isak Kinsbrunner.
Accession No.
19-005
Subjects
Romania -- Jews.
Immigrants
Immigrants - Quebec (Province) - Montreal
Star of David
Identification cards
Archival / Genealogical
Archival Descriptions
Repository
Jewish Public Library Archives
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Immigration documents.

https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn89987
Collection
Adele Druckman-Kinsbrunner Fonds
Description Level
Fonds
Material Type
textual record
Physical Description
1 file of textual records.
Fonds No.
1416; 00005
Date
1948-1950
Collection
Adele Druckman-Kinsbrunner Fonds
Description Level
Fonds
Material Type
textual record
Physical Description
1 file of textual records.
Date
1948-1950
Fonds No.
1416
File No.
00005
Storage Location
JPL
Ctn. 001
Physical Condition
Fair
Language
English
French
Romanian
Accession No.
19-005
Subjects
Romania -- Jews.
Immigrants
Immigrants - Quebec (Province) - Montreal
Archival / Genealogical
Archival Descriptions
Repository
Jewish Public Library Archives
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Luba Miller Fonds

https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn93270
Collection
Luba Miller Fonds
Description Level
Fonds
Material Type
textual record
Physical Description
1 file of textual records.
Fonds No.
1392
Date
1922-1931
Scope and Content
Fonds consists of one file containing official documents and one handwritten letter.
Collection
Luba Miller Fonds
Description Level
Fonds
Material Type
textual record
Physical Description
1 file of textual records.
Scope and Content
Fonds consists of one file containing official documents and one handwritten letter.
Date
1922-1931
Fonds No.
1392
Storage Location
JPL
Physical Condition
Poor
History / Biographical
Luba Miller was born in Russia in 1925 to Bella and Boris (Benny) Shulman. Wealthy Capitalists, per Luba, the Shulmans found themselves forced to flee Russia in 1929 upon the urging of Benny's brother, an editor for Pravda, with whom they lost contact completely after their emigration. Bella's family was already in Montreal, while Benny's other siblings had settled in Baltimore. Ms. Miller recounts having her governess, whom she called Dana, bringing her to the ship in Paris, as well as her family leaving with, "four forks, four spoons, four knives, there were four of us!" Luba's older brother, Chaim, born in 1921, had already faced difficulty entering school under his own name due to the Bolsheviks, and Stalin's rise to power only hastened the difficulties that the Shulmans were facing. Ms. Miller tells the story, told to her by their mother, of her parents attempt to leave Russia, in which, at the border, they were stopped as Bella was still wearing her diamond earrings. A border guard told her to remove them, or he would shoot her husband and say that he had tried to cross the border without approval. The Shulmans arrived in November of 1929, anticipating meeting Benny's siblings in Baltimore. However, in an unhappy twist of fate, their arrival was the day after the American stock market crash of 1929, and the American borders were closed to arrivals. Their ship was rerouted to Montreal, where they were able to connect with Bella's family. Here, the Shulmans found it difficult to reestablish themselves, as they had arrived with nothing and spoke neither English nor French. Benny took a job in a butcher shop, but found the work difficult and unstimulating. Luba married at 16 in order to alleviate some of her parents' financial concerns. In another ironic turn of events, the Shulmans, who had fled Russia to avoid Communism found themselves turning to it for comfort once settled in Montreal, even ending up on an American no-entry list for being subscribers to Fred Rose's newspaper.
Language
Russian
Polish
Yiddish
Custodial History
Donated by Luba Miller.
Accession No.
18-011
Name Access
Miller, Luba (nee Shulman)
Subjects
Immigrants - Quebec (Province) - Montreal
Russia -- Jews.
Places
Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
Archival / Genealogical
Archival Descriptions
Repository
Jewish Public Library Archives
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New Canadians Program

https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn38076
Collection
Young Men's-Young Women's Hebrew Association
Description Level
File
Material Type
textual record
Fonds No.
1256; 6; 00111
Date
1948-1949
Collection
Young Men's-Young Women's Hebrew Association
Description Level
File
Material Type
textual record
Date
1948-1949
Fonds No.
1256
Series No.
6
File No.
00111
Storage Location
4-3E
CTN. 005
Language
English
Notes
Selection of contents digitized. To consult the entire file, please contact the JPL-A directly.
Access Restrictions
Some privacy laws may apply.
Reproduction Restrictions
Some copyright laws may apply.
Subjects
World War, 1939-1945.
Immigrants - Quebec (Province) - Montreal
Immigrants - Canada
Archival / Genealogical
Archival Descriptions
Repository
Jewish Public Library Archives
Documents
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Photographs

https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn89991
Collection
Adele Druckman-Kinsbrunner Fonds
Description Level
Fonds
Material Type
textual record
cartographic material
Physical Description
1 file of textual records.
Fonds No.
1416; 00009
Scope and Content
Contains a photograph of the B'nai Brith bowling league at the Mount Royal Lodge, photos of Sidney Brown, Jessie Cohen, and unidentified relatives from Eastern Europe.
Collection
Adele Druckman-Kinsbrunner Fonds
Description Level
Fonds
Material Type
textual record
cartographic material
Physical Description
1 file of textual records.
Scope and Content
Contains a photograph of the B'nai Brith bowling league at the Mount Royal Lodge, photos of Sidney Brown, Jessie Cohen, and unidentified relatives from Eastern Europe.
Fonds No.
1416
File No.
00009
Storage Location
JPL
Ctn. 001
Physical Condition
Fair
Language
English
Accession No.
19-005
Subjects
Romania -- Jews.
Immigrants
Immigrants - Quebec (Province) - Montreal
B'nai Brith
Archival / Genealogical
Archival Descriptions
Repository
Jewish Public Library Archives
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Sydney Brown

https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn89990
Collection
Adele Druckman-Kinsbrunner Fonds
Description Level
Fonds
Material Type
textual record
cartographic material
Physical Description
1 file of textual records.
Fonds No.
1416; 00008
Date
1937-1989
Scope and Content
Clippings, souvernir program from Worker's Sport Association, B'nai Brith patch, correspondence.
Collection
Adele Druckman-Kinsbrunner Fonds
Description Level
Fonds
Material Type
textual record
cartographic material
Physical Description
1 file of textual records.
Scope and Content
Clippings, souvernir program from Worker's Sport Association, B'nai Brith patch, correspondence.
Date
1937-1989
Fonds No.
1416
File No.
00008
Storage Location
JPL
Ctn. 001
Physical Condition
Fair
Language
English
Accession No.
19-005
Subjects
Romania -- Jews.
Immigrants
Immigrants - Quebec (Province) - Montreal
Archival / Genealogical
Archival Descriptions
Repository
Jewish Public Library Archives
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Sydney Brown - Story of the Kinsbrunner Breed

https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn89989
Collection
Adele Druckman-Kinsbrunner Fonds
Description Level
Fonds
Material Type
textual record
Physical Description
1 file of textual records.
Fonds No.
1416; 00007
Date
1996
Scope and Content
Published by the family for Sydney's 90th birthday.
Collection
Adele Druckman-Kinsbrunner Fonds
Description Level
Fonds
Material Type
textual record
Physical Description
1 file of textual records.
Scope and Content
Published by the family for Sydney's 90th birthday.
Date
1996
Fonds No.
1416
File No.
00007
Storage Location
JPL
Ctn. 001
Physical Condition
Fair
Language
English
Accession No.
19-005
Subjects
Romania -- Jews.
Immigrants
Immigrants - Quebec (Province) - Montreal
Archival / Genealogical
Archival Descriptions
Repository
Jewish Public Library Archives
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Zryl and Goldblum Collection

https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn93262
Collection
Zryl and Goldblum Collection
Description Level
Fonds
Material Type
textual record
graphic material
Physical Description
1 cm of of textual records, 1 photograph.
Fonds No.
1384
Date
1915-1996
Scope and Content
Includes immigration identification cards, medical examination cards, passports, citizenship and naturalization paperwork, ship tickets, monument paperwork for cemetary, attestation of declaration of marriage, and other biographical material. 1 photograph.
Collection
Zryl and Goldblum Collection
Description Level
Fonds
Material Type
textual record
graphic material
Physical Description
1 cm of of textual records, 1 photograph.
Scope and Content
Includes immigration identification cards, medical examination cards, passports, citizenship and naturalization paperwork, ship tickets, monument paperwork for cemetary, attestation of declaration of marriage, and other biographical material. 1 photograph.
Date
1915-1996
Fonds No.
1384
Storage Location
JPL
Creator
Sam Zryl and Lucy Goldblum
Physical Condition
Poor to good.
Language
English
French
Russian
Yiddish
Custodial History
Donated by Cookie.
Accession No.
18_003
Name Access
Goldblum, Lucy.
Zryl, Sam.
Subjects
Europe
Immigrants
Immigrants - Canada
Immigrants, Polish - Canada
Immigrants - Quebec (Province) - Montreal
Archival / Genealogical
Archival Descriptions
Repository
Jewish Public Library Archives
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