topic:"World War, 1939-1945" found 22 records - The Canadian Jewish Heritage Network

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.

https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn27920

Collection: Photograph Collection

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: 1 photograph : b&w; 17.5 cm x 12.5 cm

Fonds No.: 1255; 006251

Collection: Photograph Collection

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: 1 photograph : b&w; 17.5 cm x 12.5 cm

Fonds No.: 1255

Item No.: 006251

Notes: Hebrew note adhesed to back of photograph.

Subjects: Bessarabia- Jews; World War, 1939-1945.

Archival / Genealogical: Archival Descriptions

Repository: Jewish Public Library Archives

Exterior, cemetery.

https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn19142

Collection: Photograph Collection

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: 1 photograph : b&w; 18.5 x 16.25 cm

Fonds No.: 1255; 001174

Date: n.d.

Collection: Photograph Collection

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: 1 photograph : b&w; 18.5 x 16.25 cm

Date: n.d.

Fonds No.: 1255

Item No.: 001174

Subjects: World War, 1939-1945.; Cemeteries.

Archival / Genealogical: Archival Descriptions

Repository: Jewish Public Library Archives

Exterior, Jewish soldiers at rest, Montreal.

https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn19143

Collection: Photograph Collection

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: 1 photograph : b&w; 25 x 20 cm

Fonds No.: 1255; 001175

Date: n.d.

Collection: Photograph Collection

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: 1 photograph : b&w; 25 x 20 cm

Responsibility: Federal Photos, Montreal

Date: n.d.

Fonds No.: 1255

Item No.: 001175

Notes: "Federal Photos" stamp on verso.

Subjects: World War, 1939-1945.; Military Personnel -- Canada.

Archival / Genealogical: Archival Descriptions

Repository: Jewish Public Library Archives

Exterior, recruits entering Young Men's Hebrew Association, during World War II, Montreal.

https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn19141

Collection: Photograph Collection

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: 1 photograph : b&w; 20 x 25 cm

Fonds No.: 1255; 001173

Date: [1933-1945]

1 image

Collection: Photograph Collection

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: 1 photograph : b&w; 20 x 25 cm

Responsibility: [S. H. Flanders, Outremont, Quebec ?]

Date: [1933-1945]

Fonds No.: 1255

Item No.: 001173

Notes: "S. H. Flanders" stamp on verso.

Subjects: Young Men-Young Women's Hebrew Association, Montreal.; World War, 1939-1945.; Military Personnel -- Canada.; Montreal (Quebec) - Buildings, structures, etc.; Montreal (Quebec) - Street scenes

Archival / Genealogical: Archival Descriptions

Repository: Jewish Public Library Archives

Images

Group portrait, including Mr. Chaim Herwitz accepting portrait, at the unveiling of a memorial photograph of Srgt. S. Herwitz (Chaim Herwitz's son), Sergeant's Mess of the Canadian Grenadier Guards, Montreal.

https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn19145

Collection: Photograph Collection

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: 1 photograph : b&w; 25 x 20 cm

Fonds No.: 1255; 001177

Date: February 16, 1948

Collection: Photograph Collection

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: 1 photograph : b&w; 25 x 20 cm

Responsibility: Federal Photos, Montreal

Date: February 16, 1948

Fonds No.: 1255

Item No.: 001177

Notes: People in photograph identified on verso.; "Federal Photos" stamp on verso.; Torn on upper right corner.

Subjects: World War, 1939-1945.; Canadian Grenadier Guards.; Monuments and memorials -- Israel.

Archival / Genealogical: Archival Descriptions

Repository: Jewish Public Library Archives

Group portrait of Canadian World War II troops disembarking ship, England.

https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn21824

Collection: Photograph Collection

Description Level: Item

Fonds No.: 1255; 003866

Date: August 12, 1941

Collection: Photograph Collection

Description Level: Item

Responsibility: Canada Wide Photo, Montreal.

Date: August 12, 1941

Fonds No.: 1255

Item No.: 003866

Notes: "Canada Wide Photo" stamp on verso.; "Blue Bell Nov. 1961" stamped on verso.; Brief description written on verso.

Subjects: World War, 1939-1945.; Military Personnel -- Canada.; Ships.

Archival / Genealogical: Archival Descriptions

Repository: Jewish Public Library Archives

Group portrait of Canadian World War II troops on ship, a single woman waving from dock, [Montreal ?].

https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn21823

Collection: Photograph Collection

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: 1 photograph : b&w; 25 X 20 CM

Fonds No.: 1255; 003865

Date: n.d.

Collection: Photograph Collection

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: 1 photograph : b&w; 25 X 20 CM

Date: n.d.

Fonds No.: 1255

Item No.: 003865

Notes: Event identified on verso.

Subjects: World War, 1939-1945.; Military Personnel -- Canada.; Ships.

Archival / Genealogical: Archival Descriptions

Repository: Jewish Public Library Archives

Group portrait of orphaned children cutting wood with saw, post-World War II, France.

https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn26349

Collection: Photograph Collection

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: 1 photograph : b&w; 18 x 13 cm

Fonds No.: 1255; 008692

Date: n.d.

Scope and Content: Reproduction; original taken June 11, 1946.

Collection: Photograph Collection

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: 1 photograph : b&w; 18 x 13 cm

Scope and Content: Reproduction; original taken June 11, 1946.

Responsibility: Joint Distribution Committee

Date: n.d.

Fonds No.: 1255

Item No.: 008692

Notes: Description attached to verso.

Subjects: Orphans.; Children -- Jewish.; France -- Jews.; Refugees, Eastern European -- France.; Saws.; World War, 1939-1945.; Woodworking.

Archival / Genealogical: Archival Descriptions

Repository: Jewish Public Library Archives

Group portrait of people rescued from Buchenwald concentration camp and brought to France, post-World War II.

https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn26348

Collection: Photograph Collection

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: 1 photograph : b&w; 25 x 20 cm

Fonds No.: 1255; 008691

Date: n.d.

Scope and Content: Reproduction; original created [ca. 1945].

Collection: Photograph Collection

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: 1 photograph : b&w; 25 x 20 cm

Scope and Content: Reproduction; original created [ca. 1945].

Responsibility: Joint Distribution Committee

Date: n.d.

Fonds No.: 1255

Item No.: 008691

Notes: Description attached to verso.

Subjects: World War, 1939-1945.; Refugees, Eastern European -- France.; France -- Jews.; Concentration camps -- Germany.; Men -- Jewish.; Children -- Jewish.

Archival / Genealogical: Archival Descriptions

Repository: Jewish Public Library Archives

Group portrait of people walking down cobblestone street, Exile of Jews from Pavianitz by Nazis, Poland.

https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn23302

Collection: Photograph Collection

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: 1 photograph : b&w; 20.5 x 12.5 cm

Fonds No.: 1255; 005344

Date: n.d.

Scope and Content: Reproduction; original photographed 1942.

Collection: Photograph Collection

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: 1 photograph : b&w; 20.5 x 12.5 cm

Scope and Content: Reproduction; original photographed 1942.

Date: n.d.

Fonds No.: 1255

Item No.: 005344

Notes: Event and date identified on verso.

Subjects: World War, 1939-1945.; Poland -- Jews.; Holocaust.

Archival / Genealogical: Archival Descriptions

Repository: Jewish Public Library Archives

Group portrait of World War II soldiers shaking hands with civilians.

https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn21825

Collection: Photograph Collection

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: 1 photograph : b&w; 25 x 20 cm

Fonds No.: 1255; 003867

Date: n.d.

Collection: Photograph Collection

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: 1 photograph : b&w; 25 x 20 cm

Date: n.d.

Fonds No.: 1255

Item No.: 003867

Notes: Photo credit: stamped on verso, covered with remnants of paper.; "Montreal Standard Publishing" stamp on verso.

Subjects: World War, 1939-1945.; Military Personnel -- Canada.

Archival / Genealogical: Archival Descriptions

Repository: Jewish Public Library Archives

Group portrait, with (l to r) Rev. F. J. Sinnamon, Mr. Chaim Herwitz, and Major Isaac Rose, at the unveiling of a memorial photograph of Srgt. S. Herwitz (Chaim Herwitz's son), Sergeant's Mess of the Canadian Grenadier Guards, Montreal.

https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn19144

Collection: Photograph Collection

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: 1 photograph : b&w; 25 x 20 cm

Fonds No.: 1255; 001176

Date: February 16, 1948

Collection: Photograph Collection

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: 1 photograph : b&w; 25 x 20 cm

Responsibility: Federal Photos, Montreal

Date: February 16, 1948

Fonds No.: 1255

Item No.: 001176

Notes: People in photograph identified on verso.; "Federal Photos" stamp on verso.; Alternative angle - PR/001178

Subjects: World War, 1939-1945.; Canadian Grenadier Guards.; Monuments and memorials -- Israel.

Archival / Genealogical: Archival Descriptions

Repository: Jewish Public Library Archives

Group portrait, with (l to r) Rev. F. J. Sinnamon, Mr. Chaim Herwitz, and Major Isaac Rose, at the unveiling of a memorial photograph of Srgt. S. Herwitz (Chaim Herwitz's son), Sergeant's Mess of the Canadian Grenadier Guards, Montreal.

https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn19146

Collection: Photograph Collection

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: 1 photograph : b&w; 24.5 x 19.75 cm

Fonds No.: 1255; 001178

Date: February 16, 1948

Collection: Photograph Collection

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: 1 photograph : b&w; 24.5 x 19.75 cm

Responsibility: McAllister, Gazette Photo, Montreal

Date: February 16, 1948

Fonds No.: 1255

Item No.: 001178

Notes: Alternative angle - PR/001176; Newspaper clipping glued to verso.

Subjects: World War, 1939-1945.; Canadian Grenadier Guards.; Monuments and memorials -- Israel.

Archival / Genealogical: Archival Descriptions

Repository: Jewish Public Library Archives

Negative of Jewish recruits, outside Young Men's Hebrew Association, Montreal.

https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn19138

Collection: Photograph Collection

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: 1 photograph : b&w negative; 12.5 x 10 cm

Fonds No.: 1255; 001170

Date: n.d.

Collection: Photograph Collection

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: 1 photograph : b&w negative; 12.5 x 10 cm

Date: n.d.

Fonds No.: 1255

Item No.: 001170

Subjects: Young Men-Young Women's Hebrew Association, Montreal.; World War, 1939-1945.; Military Personnel -- Canada.; Montreal (Quebec) - Street scenes

Archival / Genealogical: Archival Descriptions

Repository: Jewish Public Library Archives

Portrait of common World War II [T Can] airman grave marker, cemetery, Wojnicz, Tarnow County, Poland.

https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn21822

Collection: Photograph Collection

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: 1 photograph : b&w; 9.5 x 6.5 cm

Fonds No.: 1255; 003864

Date: n.d.

Collection: Photograph Collection

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: 1 photograph : b&w; 9.5 x 6.5 cm

Date: n.d.

Fonds No.: 1255

Item No.: 003864

Notes: Brief description written on verso.; Photo colour: sepia toned.

Subjects: World War, 1939-1945.; Cemeteries.; Graves.

Archival / Genealogical: Archival Descriptions

Repository: Jewish Public Library Archives

Portrait of Jewish Book Month display, a fragment of a Sefer Torah from World War II at centre, Jewish Public Library.

https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn19599

Collection: Photograph Collection

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: 1 photograph : b&w; 20 x 25 cm

Fonds No.: 1255; 001634

Scope and Content: The Sefer Torah fragment was used as wrapping paper by German soldier during World War II. Now on permanent exhibit at the Holocaust Centre.

Collection: Photograph Collection

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: 1 photograph : b&w; 20 x 25 cm

Scope and Content: The Sefer Torah fragment was used as wrapping paper by German soldier during World War II. Now on permanent exhibit at the Holocaust Centre.

Fonds No.: 1255

Item No.: 001634

Notes: Brief description written on verso.; Event and date identified on verso.; "Publicity Department, Combined Jewish Appeal" stamp on verso.

Subjects: Jewish Book Month - Exhibits; Jewish Public Library (Montreal, Quebec) - Events; Holocaust.; Sefer Torah.; World War, 1939-1945.

Archival / Genealogical: Archival Descriptions

Repository: Jewish Public Library Archives

Portrait of Jewish Book Month display, a fragment of a Sefer Torah from World War II at centre, Jewish Public Library.

https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn19600

Collection: Photograph Collection

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: 1 photograph : b&w; 20 x 25 cm

Fonds No.: 1255; 001635

Scope and Content: The Sefer Torah fragment was used as wrapping paper by German soldier during World War II. Now on permanent exhibit at the Holocaust Centre.

Collection: Photograph Collection

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: 1 photograph : b&w; 20 x 25 cm

Scope and Content: The Sefer Torah fragment was used as wrapping paper by German soldier during World War II. Now on permanent exhibit at the Holocaust Centre.

Responsibility: Drummond Photos, Montreal.

Fonds No.: 1255

Item No.: 001635

Notes: "Drummond Photos" stamp on verso.

Subjects: Holocaust.; Sefer Torah.; Jewish Book Month - Exhibits; Jewish Public Library (Montreal, Quebec) - Events; World War, 1939-1945.

Archival / Genealogical: Archival Descriptions

Repository: Jewish Public Library Archives

Portrait of Jewish Book Month display, unidentified man on the right holding a Sefer Torah from World War II, Jewish Public Library.

https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn19598

Collection: Photograph Collection

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: 1 photograph : b&w; 25 x 20 cm

Fonds No.: 1255; 001633

Scope and Content: The Sefer Torah fragment was used as wrapping paper by German soldier during World War II. Now on permanent exhibit at the Holocaust Centre.

Collection: Photograph Collection

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: 1 photograph : b&w; 25 x 20 cm

Scope and Content: The Sefer Torah fragment was used as wrapping paper by German soldier during World War II. Now on permanent exhibit at the Holocaust Centre.

Fonds No.: 1255

Item No.: 001633

Notes: "Publicity Department, Combined Jewish Appeal" stamp on verso.

Subjects: Sefer Torah.; Holocaust.; Jewish Book Month - Exhibits; Jewish Public Library (Montreal, Quebec) - Events; World War, 1939-1945.

Archival / Genealogical: Archival Descriptions

Repository: Jewish Public Library Archives

Portrait of Jewish recruits, outside Young Men's Hebrew Association, Montreal.

https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn19149

Collection: Photograph Collection

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: 1 photograph : b&w; 25 x 20 cm

Fonds No.: 1255; 001181

Date: n.d.

1 image

Collection: Photograph Collection

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: 1 photograph : b&w; 25 x 20 cm

Date: n.d.

Fonds No.: 1255

Item No.: 001181

Notes: Copy 2 of 3

Subjects: World War, 1939-1945.; Military Personnel -- Canada.; Young Men-Young Women's Hebrew Association, Montreal.; Montreal (Quebec) - Street scenes

Archival / Genealogical: Archival Descriptions

Repository: Jewish Public Library Archives

Images

Portrait of Jewish recruits, outside Young Men's Hebrew Association, Montreal.

https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn19150

Collection: Photograph Collection

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: 1 photograph : b&w; 25 x 20 cm

Fonds No.: 1255; 001182

Date: [1939-1945]

Collection: Photograph Collection

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: 1 photograph : b&w; 25 x 20 cm

Date: [1939-1945]

Fonds No.: 1255

Item No.: 001182

Notes: Copy 3 of 3

Subjects: Young Men-Young Women's Hebrew Association, Montreal.; World War, 1939-1945.; Military Personnel -- Canada.; Montreal (Quebec) - Street scenes

Archival / Genealogical: Archival Descriptions

Repository: Jewish Public Library Archives

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Images

Group portrait, including Mr. Chaim Herwitz accepting portrait, at the unveiling of a memorial photograph of Srgt. S. Herwitz (Chaim Herwitz's son), Sergeant's Mess of the Canadian Grenadier Guards, Montreal.

Group portrait of Canadian World War II troops disembarking ship, England.

Group portrait of Canadian World War II troops on ship, a single woman waving from dock, [Montreal ?].

Group portrait of orphaned children cutting wood with saw, post-World War II, France.

Group portrait of people rescued from Buchenwald concentration camp and brought to France, post-World War II.

Group portrait of people walking down cobblestone street, Exile of Jews from Pavianitz by Nazis, Poland.

Group portrait of World War II soldiers shaking hands with civilians.

Group portrait, with (l to r) Rev. F. J. Sinnamon, Mr. Chaim Herwitz, and Major Isaac Rose, at the unveiling of a memorial photograph of Srgt. S. Herwitz (Chaim Herwitz's son), Sergeant's Mess of the Canadian Grenadier Guards, Montreal.

Group portrait, with (l to r) Rev. F. J. Sinnamon, Mr. Chaim Herwitz, and Major Isaac Rose, at the unveiling of a memorial photograph of Srgt. S. Herwitz (Chaim Herwitz's son), Sergeant's Mess of the Canadian Grenadier Guards, Montreal.

Negative of Jewish recruits, outside Young Men's Hebrew Association, Montreal.

Portrait of common World War II [T Can] airman grave marker, cemetery, Wojnicz, Tarnow County, Poland.

Portrait of Jewish Book Month display, a fragment of a Sefer Torah from World War II at centre, Jewish Public Library.

Portrait of Jewish Book Month display, a fragment of a Sefer Torah from World War II at centre, Jewish Public Library.

Portrait of Jewish Book Month display, unidentified man on the right holding a Sefer Torah from World War II, Jewish Public Library.

Portrait of Jewish recruits, outside Young Men's Hebrew Association, Montreal.

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Portrait of Jewish recruits, outside Young Men's Hebrew Association, Montreal.