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  6. Holocaust file

  11. Rosalie Bertell fonds [textual record]

  12. Anna Heilman fonds [textual record, graphic material, moving images]

    The fonds consists of Anna Heilman's personal papers, speeches, articles and publications relating to her wartime experiences in Auschwitz Birkenau at the Union Munitions Factory where she worked as a slave labourer; the successful plot to blow up Crematorium IV which was part of the October 1944 Sonderkommando Uprising; and the public execution of the four girls in the camp on January 5, 1945 who smuggled the gunpowder out of the factory. Most of the material relates to her international campaign to gain recognition for them and their courage as resistance fighters. Of unique and special i...

  17. Fundamental freedoms [textual record]

    Series consists of case files, research materials, briefs, articles, research papers and theses related to issues surrounding fundamental freedoms. These subjects include: Censorship including pornography, obscenity, Fraser Committee on Pornography and Prostitution, Ontario Information and Privacy Commissioner and customs seizures; contempt of court including R v. Murphy and Harry Kopyto; Freedom of Assembly including picketing in labour disputes at the Eaton Centre, soliciting in malls, Skokie v. National Socialist Party of America, Litton Rexdale Plant anti-nuclear demonstration, parade p...

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  20. Diary kept by Ethel Ostry [textual record]

    Item is a bound photocopy (230 pages) of a diary kept by Ethel Ostry, welfare officer with the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Agency (U.N.R.R.A.) in Europe, 1945-1947. The diary was transcribed, edited and copied by her sister, Elizabeth O. Fisher in 1978. It was titled After the Holocaust: My Work with U.N.R.R.A. and originally titled Where is My Family?.