FEDERATION OF POLISH JEWS OF CANADA.

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Collection
FEDERATION OF POLISH JEWS OF CANADA.
Description Level
Fonds
Physical Description
0.105 metres of textual records.
Fonds No.
I0021
Date
1933-1990.
Scope and Content
Minutes (1939-1940). Reports (1939-1941, e/y). Financial statements (1939-1941). Correspondence (1934-1940). Fundraising jubilee book (1933-1943, y/e). Invitations and posters/ads for meetings, conferences and fundraising (Kol Nidre Appeal, 1938-1944, y/e). Clippings (1943). Much of this comes from…
Collection
FEDERATION OF POLISH JEWS OF CANADA.
Description Level
Fonds
Physical Description
0.105 metres of textual records.
Scope and Content
Minutes (1939-1940). Reports (1939-1941, e/y). Financial statements (1939-1941). Correspondence (1934-1940). Fundraising jubilee book (1933-1943, y/e). Invitations and posters/ads for meetings, conferences and fundraising (Kol Nidre Appeal, 1938-1944, y/e). Clippings (1943). Much of this comes from the Toronto branch.
Date
1933-1990.
Fonds No.
I0021
History / Biographical
The Federation (or Farband) of Polish Jews of Canada was established in 1933 in Montreal, across Canada, and in other Western nations. Together with its women's auxiliary, "Ezra", its main efforts were war-related. Before World War II, funds were raised for general aid to Poland's Jews. During and after the war, the Federation sent money and clothing to refugees, brought war orphans to Canada, monitored Canadians' Polish relatives, searched for such relatives (with Canadian Jewish Congress, the Joint Distribution Committee and ORT), tried to save intellectuals and rabbis, and cared for refugee children. Immigrants were helped to integrate, and those Jews interned in Canada by the British were also supported. A flow of information was maintained through ties with international organizations and the Polish consulates and government. The Federation also established a Moess Chittin Fund.
Notes
Language :English and Yiddish.Related groups of records :There is one file of clippings, 1988-1990 on Polish Canadian Jews and on the Polish-Jewish Heritage Foundation of Canada.General note :Half originals and half copies.
Archival / Genealogical
Archival Descriptions
Repository
Canadian Jewish Archives
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