Coupon

Physical Description: Coupon : cardstock : Printed : ink, pencil : Green and black ; Ht: 7 cm x W: 10 cm

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Physical Description: Coupon : cardstock : Printed : ink, pencil : Green and black ; Ht: 7 cm x W: 10 cm

Notes: Two card-sized tickets with numbers written in pencil on sides, number 159 and 160. These documents (coupons) are the dinner coupons for restaurant aboard ship, “Sicula Oceanica S.A. Mr. and Mrs. Isidore Lorincz arrived in Canada aboard the Venezuela. 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. Zita was born 2 Jan 1917 in Nograd, Hungary.