topic:"World War II" found 531 records - The Canadian Jewish Heritage Network

NEPEAN: 'Wartime seder in Baghdad' post-World War II photo sent by Joshua Heilman of Nepean, member of a Jewish Royal Engineer company from Israel (Canadian Jewish News)

https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn56367

Collection: Canadian Jewish Congress organizational records

Description Level: File

Material Type: textual record

Fonds No.: CJC0001; ZD; ZD

Date: April 12, 1996

Collection: Canadian Jewish Congress organizational records

Description Level: File

Material Type: textual record

Date: April 12, 1996

Fonds No.: CJC0001

Series No.: ZD

File No.: ZD

Subjects: NEPEAN: 'Wartime seder in Baghdad' post-World War II photo sent by Joshua Heilman of Nepean, member of a Jewish Royal Engineer company from Israel (Canadian Jewish News)

Places: Ontario

Archival / Genealogical: Archival Descriptions

Repository: Canadian Jewish Archives

Group portrait of immigrants on deck of ship, with children climbing stairs and people sitting along wall and railing, en route to Israel. Immigrants in Israel.

https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn26910

Collection: Photograph Collection

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: 1 photograph : b&w; 11 x 12.5 cm

Fonds No.: 1255; 009253

Date: February 1956

Collection: Photograph Collection

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: 1 photograph : b&w; 11 x 12.5 cm

Responsibility: Joint Distribution Committee

Date: February 1956

Fonds No.: 1255

Item No.: 009253

Notes: Date identified on verso.

Subjects: Ships.; Immigrants.; Emigration and immigration -- Post-World War II.; Children -- Jewish.; Infants.; Men -- Jewish.; Women -- Jewish.

Archival / Genealogical: Archival Descriptions

Repository: Jewish Public Library Archives

Group portrait of Deborah Kotlarski and unidentified woman [her mother?] reading book, Hotel Mirabeau, Paris, France.

https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn24417

Collection: Photograph Collection

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: 1 photograph : b&w; 20 x 25 cm

Fonds No.: 1255; 006755

Date: December 1949

Scope and Content: Hotel Mirabeau was the JDC's transient centre for emigration-bound Jewish refugees in Paris.

Collection: Photograph Collection

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: 1 photograph : b&w; 20 x 25 cm

Scope and Content: Hotel Mirabeau was the JDC's transient centre for emigration-bound Jewish refugees in Paris.

Responsibility: Jerome Silberstein, Official AJDC Photo.

Date: December 1949

Fonds No.: 1255

Item No.: 006755

Notes: Description attached to verso.; "Jerome Silberstein" stamp on verso.

Subjects: Joint Distribution Committee.; Emigration and immigration -- Post-World War II.; Immigrants.; France -- Jews.

Archival / Genealogical: Archival Descriptions

Repository: Jewish Public Library Archives

Group portrait of Polish immigrants disembarking the U.S. Military Ship "S. S. General Sturgis," Jewish Immigrant Aid Services of Canada, [Halifax?].

https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn24342

Collection: Photograph Collection

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: 1 photograph : b&w; 25 x 20 cm

Fonds No.: 1255; 006680

Date: March 28, 1949

Collection: Photograph Collection

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: 1 photograph : b&w; 25 x 20 cm

Responsibility: Al Ross

Date: March 28, 1949

Fonds No.: 1255

Item No.: 006680

Notes: Brief description and certain people identified on sheet attached to photograph folder; event identified on verso.; Copy 1 of 3; "Al Ross" stamp on verso.; "Meco Ltd., Zinc" sticker on verso.

Subjects: Jewish Immigrant Aid Services of Canada.; Ships.; Emigration and immigration -- Post-World War II.; Immigrants, Polish -- Israel.

Archival / Genealogical: Archival Descriptions

Repository: Jewish Public Library Archives

Publication of Volume II of 'Canadian Jews in World War II'

https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn96045

Collection: Canadian Jewish Congress organizational records

Description Level: Item

Material Type: textual record

Fonds No.: CJC0001; FA 2; CJC-IOI-FA2-543

Date: 01/03/1949

1 document

Collection: Canadian Jewish Congress organizational records

Description Level: Item

Material Type: textual record

Date: 01/03/1949

Fonds No.: CJC0001

Series No.: FA 2

Item No.: CJC-IOI-FA2-543

Subjects: Publication of Volume II of 'Canadian Jews in World War II'

Archival / Genealogical: Archival Descriptions

Repository: Canadian Jewish Archives

Documents

IOI-0543-Jan-1949

Comments on Volume 2 of 'Canadian Jews in World War II' - Hon. Brooke Claxton, Minister of National Defence

https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn96457

Collection: Canadian Jewish Congress organizational records

Description Level: Item

Material Type: textual record

Fonds No.: CJC0001; FA 2; CJC-IOI-FA2-588

Date: 03/07/1949

1 document

Collection: Canadian Jewish Congress organizational records

Description Level: Item

Material Type: textual record

Date: 03/07/1949

Fonds No.: CJC0001

Series No.: FA 2

Item No.: CJC-IOI-FA2-588

Subjects: Comments on Volume 2 of 'Canadian Jews in World War II' - Hon. Brooke Claxton, Minister of National Defence

Archival / Genealogical: Archival Descriptions

Repository: Canadian Jewish Archives

Documents

IOI-0588-March-1949

Copies of War Record placed in libraries - 'Canadian Jews in World War II'

https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn97369

Collection: Canadian Jewish Congress organizational records

Description Level: Item

Material Type: textual record

Fonds No.: CJC0001; FA 2; CJC-IOI-FA2-676

Date: 07/19/1949

1 document

Collection: Canadian Jewish Congress organizational records

Description Level: Item

Material Type: textual record

Date: 07/19/1949

Fonds No.: CJC0001

Series No.: FA 2

Item No.: CJC-IOI-FA2-676

Subjects: Copies of War Record placed in libraries - 'Canadian Jews in World War II'

Archival / Genealogical: Archival Descriptions

Repository: Canadian Jewish Archives

Documents

IOI-0676-July-1949

Comment in Winnipeg 'Tribune' on Congress publication 'Canadian Jews in World War II'

https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn97491

Collection: Canadian Jewish Congress organizational records

Description Level: Item

Material Type: textual record

Fonds No.: CJC0001; FA 2; CJC-IOI-FA2-690

Date: 08/09/1949

1 document

Collection: Canadian Jewish Congress organizational records

Description Level: Item

Material Type: textual record

Date: 08/09/1949

Fonds No.: CJC0001

Series No.: FA 2

Item No.: CJC-IOI-FA2-690

Subjects: Comment in Winnipeg 'Tribune' on Congress publication 'Canadian Jews in World War II'

Archival / Genealogical: Archival Descriptions

Repository: Canadian Jewish Archives

Documents

IOI-0690-August-1949

Winnipeg 'Tribune' editorial comment on Congress publication 'Canadian Jews in World War II' reprinted by Toronto 'Telegram'

https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn97533

Collection: Canadian Jewish Congress organizational records

Description Level: Item

Material Type: textual record

Fonds No.: CJC0001; FA 2; CJC-IOI-FA2-696

Date: 08/17/1949

1 document

Collection: Canadian Jewish Congress organizational records

Description Level: Item

Material Type: textual record

Date: 08/17/1949

Fonds No.: CJC0001

Series No.: FA 2

Item No.: CJC-IOI-FA2-696

Subjects: Winnipeg 'Tribune' editorial comment on Congress publication 'Canadian Jews in World War II' reprinted by Toronto 'Telegram'

Archival / Genealogical: Archival Descriptions

Repository: Canadian Jewish Archives

Documents

IOI-0696-August-1949

Presentation of copy of 'Canadian Jews in World War II' to known radio commentators - John Fisher

https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn98166

Collection: Canadian Jewish Congress organizational records

Description Level: Item

Material Type: textual record

Fonds No.: CJC0001; FA 2; CJC-IOI-FA2-767

Date: 11/28/1949

1 document

Collection: Canadian Jewish Congress organizational records

Description Level: Item

Material Type: textual record

Date: 11/28/1949

Fonds No.: CJC0001

Series No.: FA 2

Item No.: CJC-IOI-FA2-767

Subjects: Presentation of copy of 'Canadian Jews in World War II' to known radio commentators - John Fisher

Archival / Genealogical: Archival Descriptions

Repository: Canadian Jewish Archives

Documents

IOI-767-Nov-1949

Group portrait of Polish immigrants on train from Austria, including Henry Hister, Arthur Hister and Pola Hister, arriving at a D.P. Camp, Montreal. Photo used by Jewish Immigrant Aid Services of Canada.

https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn25582

Collection: Photograph Collection

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: 1 photograph : b&w; 20 x 25 cm

Fonds No.: 1255; 007921

Date: 1948

Collection: Photograph Collection

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: 1 photograph : b&w; 20 x 25 cm

Date: 1948

Fonds No.: 1255

Item No.: 007921

Notes: Group, people, event and date identified on verso.; Copy 2 of 2

Subjects: Emigration and immigration -- Post-World War II.; Immigrants, Polish -- Israel.; Hister, Arthur.; Hister, Henry.; Hister, Pola.; Jewish Immigrant Aid Services of Canada.; Railroads.

Archival / Genealogical: Archival Descriptions

Repository: Jewish Public Library Archives

Copies of 'Canadian Jews in World War II' presented at Remembrance Day Ceremonies in Oshawa and Peterboro

https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn95738

Collection: Canadian Jewish Congress organizational records

Description Level: Item

Material Type: textual record

Fonds No.: CJC0001; FA 2; CJC-IOI-FA2-509

Date: 11/16/1948

1 document

Collection: Canadian Jewish Congress organizational records

Description Level: Item

Material Type: textual record

Date: 11/16/1948

Fonds No.: CJC0001

Series No.: FA 2

Item No.: CJC-IOI-FA2-509

Subjects: Copies of 'Canadian Jews in World War II' presented at Remembrance Day Ceremonies in Oshawa and Peterboro

Archival / Genealogical: Archival Descriptions

Repository: Canadian Jewish Archives

Documents

IOI-0509-Nov-1948

WINKLER, William Nathan

https://www.cjhn.ca/link/genealogy548

Collection: Canadian Jewish Congress organizational records

Material Type: textual record

Archival / Genealogical: Genealogy Records

Collection: Canadian Jewish Congress organizational records

Material Type: textual record

Date of Death: March 22, 1947

Place of Burial: Toronto, Ontario

Cemetery: Toronto (Amalgamated Dawes Road) Cemetery

Age at Time of Death: 58

Rank: Captain

Unit: Royal Canadian Army Medical Corps

Notes: Captain William Winkler of Toronto, Ontario, was killed in a traffic accident in Toronto while on active service. Leaving his medical practice, Captain Winkler enlisted in the army in August 1942. He was born in Austria and came to Canada at the age of 13. There is a Star of David on his tombstone. (See Veterans Affairs Canada website.)