Letter
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn59368
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- textual record
- Physical Description
- Letter : Paper : Typewritten : Ink : Beige, black ; Ht: 15 cm x W: 20,5 cm
- Date
- December 05, 1956
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- textual record
- Physical Description
- Letter : Paper : Typewritten : Ink : Beige, black ; Ht: 15 cm x W: 20,5 cm
- Other Title Information
- Documentary Artifact
- Date
- December 05, 1956
- Physical Condition
- fragile
- Language
- English
- Notes
- Short letter, folded horizontally and vertically. From the United Hias Service (Austria) to the Canadian Embassy in Vienna. Director V.P. Plumenthal confirms that the overseas Hias committee will assist with the adjustment of the Lorincz family. Narrative: Rev. Isodore Lorincz was born 6 January 1908 in Hungary. His parents were Lowi Netti and Loliner (?) Jakob. He attended high school and Yeshiva, and graduated from the Jewish Theological Seminary of Budapest with ordination and smicha. During World War 2 his family was killed in Auschwitz. He came to Canada in 1957 after fleeing the revolution in Hungary. He served in two congregations before serving the Shaare Zedek Congregation as ritual director, then as Chazzan Sheni with a congregation in Hamilton, Ontario, for three years. Afterwards he served as rabbi in Port Colborne, Ontario. He settled in Montreal, Quebec, in 1962 where he became Chazzan Sheni for the next 26 years. He and his wife, Zita, continued to live in Montreal until there death around 2005.
- Accession No.
- 2000.72.3
- Name Access
- Goldman, Harry
- Places
- Vienna, Austria, Europe
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
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