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Minski/Boltz Family
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- Collection
- Minski/Boltz Family Fonds
- Description Level
- Fonds
- Material Type
- textual record
- Physical Description
- 3 files of textual material
- Fonds No.
- 1248
- Date
- ca195[?]-1956
- Scope and Content
- Consists of three folders of textual material: a commemorative booklet with a handdrawn graphic on the front of the garment factory in Sweden where Osher Minski worked. Inside the booklet are signatures of his fellow employees. The second file contains a sewing pattern cut out of Swedish newspape…
- Collection
- Minski/Boltz Family Fonds
- Description Level
- Fonds
- Material Type
- textual record
- Physical Description
- 3 files of textual material
- Scope and Content
- Consists of three folders of textual material: a commemorative booklet with a handdrawn graphic on the front of the garment factory in Sweden where Osher Minski worked. Inside the booklet are signatures of his fellow employees. The second file contains a sewing pattern cut out of Swedish newspapers and the third file contains a Yiddish newspaper article from the Forvert regarding an acquaintance of the Minskis who rescused to children from the Soviet Union and eventually brought them to Israel.
- Date
- ca195[?]-1956
- Fonds No.
- 1248
- Storage Location
- 7-3C
- SC3
- Creator
- Osher Minski
- History / Biographical
- The Minski (sometimes spelt Minsky) escaped Poland and forced labour in the Soviet Union after World War II and lived in Sweden for some years. Eventually they emigrated to Montreal. Osher Minski (the patriarch) was a skilled tailor and worked in a Swedish garment factory while in Sweden. The mother was also a seamstress and made clothes from patterns.
- Custodial History
- Donated by Paula Boltz, daughter of Osher Minski, as well as the Minski sons, David and Sam Minsky.
- Notes
- Stored in Small Collections container #3 (SC3).
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Jewish Public Library Archives
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