Abstract or Summary of Jewish Welfare Bureau May 1947 Survey Commission Report… Abraham Feitelberg
- Collection
- Young Men's-Young Women's Hebrew Association
- Description Level
- File
- Material Type
- textual record
- Physical Description
- One file of textual records
- Fonds No.
- 1256; 1; 00588
- Collection
- Young Men's-Young Women's Hebrew Association
- Description Level
- File
- Material Type
- textual record
- Physical Description
- One file of textual records
- Fonds No.
- 1256
- Series No.
- 1
- File No.
- 00588
- Storage Location
- CTN.017
- Language
- English
- Notes
- File only contains this report, organization involved with the welfare of soldiers, began in WWI
- Access Restrictions
- Some privacy restrictions may apply
- Reproduction Restrictions
- Some copyright restrictions may apply
- Subjects
- World War, 1939-1945 - Canada
- Jewish Welfare Bureau
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Jewish Public Library Archives
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Adult Special Clubs: Town Hall Meetings, Public Speaking, Cinema Club and others
- Collection
- Young Men's-Young Women's Hebrew Association
- Description Level
- File
- Material Type
- textual record
- Physical Description
- 1 file of texual records
- Fonds No.
- 1256; 6; 00168
- Date
- 1932-1940
- Scope and Content
- File includes town hall meeting minutes (suggested questions for discussion in clubs, discussion of WWII, economic reconstruction, Great Depression), town hall meeting programmes, correspondence, public speaking programmes/contests, participant lists, notes on Cercle Français group, financial docum…
- Collection
- Young Men's-Young Women's Hebrew Association
- Description Level
- File
- Material Type
- textual record
- Physical Description
- 1 file of texual records
- Scope and Content
- File includes town hall meeting minutes (suggested questions for discussion in clubs, discussion of WWII, economic reconstruction, Great Depression), town hall meeting programmes, correspondence, public speaking programmes/contests, participant lists, notes on Cercle Français group, financial documents, and club flyers.
- Date
- 1932-1940
- Fonds No.
- 1256
- Series No.
- 6
- File No.
- 00168
- Storage Location
- 4-3F
- CTN. 006
- Language
- English
- Notes
- Selection of contents digitized. To consult the entire file, please contact the JPL-A directly.
- Access Restrictions
- Some privacy laws may apply.
- Reproduction Restrictions
- Some copyright laws may apply.
- Subjects
- Great Depression
- World War, 1939-1945.
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Jewish Public Library Archives
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Agenda and driving licence, N. Benditsky.
- Collection
- Benditsky Family Fonds
- Description Level
- File
- Material Type
- textual record
- Physical Description
- 1 bound drivers licence, 1 notebook
- Fonds No.
- 1295; 3; 00023
- Date
- 1943, 1946
Air Frame Class, R.C.A.F., St. Thomas, Ontario
- Collection
- Mannie Lecker Fonds
- Description Level
- File
- Material Type
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- 1 file of graphic material
- Fonds No.
- 1043; 012
- Date
- 1943
- Scope and Content
- Consists of one group portrait [b&w] of Mannie Lecker with his Air Frame Class in St. Thomas, Ontario.
Amateur Photographers of Montreal - Photo Montage of Murray Kay and Friends Davie and Sydney.
- Collection
- Murray Kay Collection
- Description Level
- File
- Material Type
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : b&w; 25 x 20 cm
- Fonds No.
- 1307; 2; 019644
- Date
- [ca. 1937]
Beacon War Services Supplement.
- Collection
- Young Men's-Young Women's Hebrew Association
- Description Level
- File
- Material Type
- textual record
- Physical Description
- One file of textual records
- Fonds No.
- 1256; 11.1; 00909
- Date
- 1943
- Scope and Content
- September 1943 issue of the Beacon War Services Supplement, including a YMHA casualty list.
Benditsky Family Fonds
- Collection
- Benditsky Family Fonds
- Description Level
- Fonds
- Material Type
- multiple media
- Physical Description
- 0.17m of multiple media
- Fonds No.
- 1295
- Date
- [between 1920 and 1985] predominent 1945-1946
- Scope and Content
- The Fonds consists of correspondence, photographs and ephemera related to the war time relationship and marriage of Nathan and Ruth Benditsky. The material focuses predominently on the years 1945 and 1946, during which the couple organizes their Manchester wedding and arranges Ruth's eventual immig…
- Collection
- Benditsky Family Fonds
- Description Level
- Fonds
- Material Type
- multiple media
- Physical Description
- 0.17m of multiple media
- Scope and Content
- The Fonds consists of correspondence, photographs and ephemera related to the war time relationship and marriage of Nathan and Ruth Benditsky. The material focuses predominently on the years 1945 and 1946, during which the couple organizes their Manchester wedding and arranges Ruth's eventual immigration to Canada.
- Date
- [between 1920 and 1985] predominent 1945-1946
- Fonds No.
- 1295
- Storage Location
- JPL
- Creator
- Ruth Benditsky
Nathan Benditsky
- Conservation
- Photographs and negatives found among the textual material were placed into acid-free envelopes. A single film roll was cut for preservation and placed in flat 35mm negative files.
- History / Biographical
- Nathan Benditsky was born in Montreal on June 28th, 1918. He was one of six children born to Israel and Esther Benditsky who had emigrated from Russia in 1908. After beginning to work in family's textile trimmings business, he enlisted in the Royal Canadian Air Force in 1941 along with his two brothers Samuel and Rubin. Soon stationed overseas, he met Ruth Schrager and in October 1945, the two married in Manchester, England. Travelling back to Canada in 1946, Nathan Benditsky returned to the family business, Star Pleating Inc. Nathan ran the company alongisde his brother Samuel and father, Israel. The business continued into the late 1990's moving from Rue Alymer to Mount-Royal Avenue.
Ruth Benditsky (nee Schrager) was born on May 10th, 1927 in Vienna. Her parents Mortiz and Rachel Schrager, and sister Mirjam Zimmerman (nee Schrager) moved to England in 1937. After marrying, Ruth Benditsky waited a number of months before recieving her travel arrangements from the Canadian Wives' Bureau. Alongside thousands of other women, she immigrated to Canada in July 1946.
Numerous relationships were initiated during World War II between Canadian military personnel and citizens living in areas where the military was stationed. Though such relationships were officially discouraged by the military, many nonetheless resulted in marriage. In 1946 the majority of newly-wed women, and some men, travelled to Canada to join their partners following the war. The estimated 48,000 war brides that made the transatlantic trip represented a significant influx of new immigrants from Britian, as well as the Netherlands, Belgium, France, Italy and Germany.
Once Ruth and Nathan Benditsky were reunited in Montreal, they worked to bring Ruth's family to North America. Moritz and Rachel Schrager, as well as Ruth's grandmother, Rivka Monath, settled in Montreal in the late 1940's. Ruth and Nathan Benditsky raised three children, Howard Benditsky, Suzan Baron and Naomi Benditsky. Ruth Benditsky died in 1980, survived by Nathan Benditsky, who died in 1999.
- Language
- English
- Custodial History
- This material was donated to the Jewish Public Library Archives by the Benditsky Family in 2012. The material of the Fonds was in the possesion of Nathan Benditsky until his death in 1999.
- Notes
- The Bendisky Family Fonds was initially recieved "unsorted". In October 2012 the fonds was physically arranged to reflect the Fonds' series, as no disernable original order could be established.
- Access Restrictions
- Material in the Benditsky Fonds is restricted to researchers with academic affiliation. Please contact the Jewish Public Library Archives for further information.
- Subjects
- Benditsky Family Fonds
- War brides
- World War, 1939-1945
- Military Personnel -- Canada.
- Royal Canadian Air Force
- Textile industry -- Canada.
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Jewish Public Library Archives
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Beret
- Collection
- Mannie Lecker Fonds
- Description Level
- File
- Material Type
- artefact
- Physical Description
- 1 object
- Fonds No.
- 1043; 018
- Date
- [ca1944-1945]
Bessarabia- Jews
A card, written in French, immortalizing the Bessarabiens who died for freedom during WWII.
Stylized composition with "Heros Bessarabiens morts pour la liberte" at the top of the page. Faces of men and women are within a wreath in the centre. On either side, placed within a drawn scroll, are their names and when they died.
- Collection
- Photograph Collection
- Description Level
- Item
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : b&w; 17.5 cm x 12.5 cm
- Fonds No.
- 1255; 006251
Binoculars and leather carrying case
- Collection
- Mannie Lecker Fonds
- Description Level
- File
- Material Type
- artefact
- Physical Description
- 1 object
- Fonds No.
- 1043; 027
- Date
- [ca1945]
Bombed out buildings in rural area, World War II, France.
- Collection
- Allan Raymond Collection
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : b&w ; 12.6 x 11.1 cm
- Fonds No.
- 1034; 3; 024027
- Date
- 1944
Brick street leading to demolished buildings, World War II, France.
- Collection
- Allan Raymond Collection
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : b&w ; 13.3 x 12.2 cm
- Fonds No.
- 1034; 3; 024017
- Date
- 1944
Building with Vox/Chasse Royale/La Lorraine sign on corner of cobblestone street, World War II, France.
- Collection
- Allan Raymond Collection
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : b&w ; 10.9 x 12.1 cm
- Fonds No.
- 1034; 3; 024023
- Date
- 1944
Cahier Janune [German French propaganda]
- Collection
- Mannie Lecker Fonds
- Description Level
- File
- Material Type
- textual record
- Physical Description
- 1 file textual records
- Fonds No.
- 1043; 008
- Date
- 1942
- Scope and Content
- Consists of Anti-Semitic publication.
Canadian and European newspaper clippings
- Collection
- Mannie Lecker Fonds
- Description Level
- File
- Material Type
- textual record
- Physical Description
- 1 file textual records
- Fonds No.
- 1043; 011
- Date
- ca1942-1945
- Scope and Content
- Consists of file of newspaper and magazine clippings regarding World War II.
Canadian Army documentation
- Collection
- Boris Rubinstein Fonds
- Description Level
- File
- Material Type
- textual record
- Physical Description
- 1 file of textual records
- Fonds No.
- 1375; 00003
- Date
- 1942-1947
Car driving on cobblestone city street, France, World War II.
- Collection
- Allan Raymond Collection
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : b&w ; 12.4 x 11 cm
- Fonds No.
- 1034; 3; 024005
- Date
- 1944
Ceramic cup
- Collection
- Mannie Lecker Fonds
- Description Level
- File
- Material Type
- artefact
- Physical Description
- 1 object
- Fonds No.
- 1043; 020
- Date
- n.d.
- Collection
- Mannie Lecker Fonds
- Description Level
- File
- Material Type
- artefact
- Physical Description
- 1 object
- Date
- n.d.
- Fonds No.
- 1043
- File No.
- 020
- Storage Location
- 7-3G, Box 002
- Notes
- Mr. Lecker and his fellow soldiers had stopped to rest while moving across Holland. At the stop, beside a farm house, a young girl ran out with something to drink and a cup for the soldiers. The truck moved on quickly while Mr. Lecker was drinking from the cup and he didn't have time to return the cup. Consists of one ceramic cup with "Hannover, Sachsenrof" written on it.
- Subjects
- World War, 1939-1945
- Lecker, Mannie, d. Dec. 27, 2007
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Jewish Public Library Archives
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Certificates of identity
- Collection
- Lokaj Family Collection
- Description Level
- File
- Material Type
- textual record
- Physical Description
- 1 file of textual material
- Fonds No.
- 1338; 00001
- Date
- 1944
- Scope and Content
- The Lokaj Family Collection contains two copies of certificates of identity issued by the Allied Commision for Austria, one for Lola Lokaj (nee Klinger) and another for Chaim Lokaj
- Collection
- Lokaj Family Collection
- Description Level
- File
- Material Type
- textual record
- Physical Description
- 1 file of textual material
- Scope and Content
- The Lokaj Family Collection contains two copies of certificates of identity issued by the Allied Commision for Austria, one for Lola Lokaj (nee Klinger) and another for Chaim Lokaj
- Date
- 1944
- Fonds No.
- 1338
- File No.
- 00001
- Storage Location
- JPL
- Subjects
- Displaced persons
- World War, 1939-1945
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Jewish Public Library Archives
Less detail
Clippings, War Service Centre
- Collection
- Young Men's-Young Women's Hebrew Association
- Description Level
- File
- Material Type
- textual record
- Physical Description
- 1 file of textual records
- Fonds No.
- 1256; 8; 00567
- Collection
- Young Men's-Young Women's Hebrew Association
- Description Level
- File
- Material Type
- textual record
- Physical Description
- 1 file of textual records
- Fonds No.
- 1256
- Series No.
- 8
- File No.
- 00567
- Storage Location
- CTN.017
- Language
- English
- Notes
- Newspaper clippings dealing with World War II related issues
- Access Restrictions
- Some privacy restrictions may apply
- Reproduction Restrictions
- Some copyright restrictions may apply
- Subjects
- World War, 1939-1945 - Canada
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Jewish Public Library Archives
Less detail