Canadian Jewish Congress fonds [textual record, sound recording, moving images]
Scope and Content
Fonds consists of correspondence, 1931-1932, 1937-1938, 1940, 38 pages; circulars, 1940-1942, 1.3 cm; Canadian Association for Adult Education, 1954-1958, 0.6 cm; publications, 1940-1944, 6.3 cm and photocopies, 1961, 24 pages.
The fonds also contains sound recordings of songs and interviews in Yiddish and in English with pioneer members of the Jewish Community in Toronto, recorded mostly in the Jewish home for the aged, under the supervision of Professor Dov Nay of the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, 1972-1974. Also included is a video recording of a documentary video cassette entitled Voices of survival, about the experiences of seven Holocaust survivors who immigrated to Canada, 1988.
Sources
Private