Collection

Montreal Holocaust Museum

Description Level

Item

Material Type

textual record

Physical Description

Certificate : Cardstock : Printed : Ink : Grey, purple, black ; Ht: 14 cm x W: 9 cm

Other Title Information

Documentary Artifact

Date

January 12, 1945

Physical Condition

Good

Language

Hungarian

Russian

Notes

Single card rectangle fold twice vertically into three segments, folded pamphlet style. This certificate was issued to Isidore Lorincz by the commission for deported Jews of Hungary. 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.

Accession No.

2000.72.2

Name Access

Goldman, Harry

Places

Budapest, Hungary, Europe

Archival / Genealogical

Archival Descriptions

Repository

Montreal Holocaust Museum

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