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Holding Institution: Jewish Public Library

  1. Holocaust Documentation Project (CJC) meeting minutes, memos

    Contains meeting minutes for, and memos relating to, the Holocaust Documentation Project (associated with the National Holocaust Remembrance Committee) hosted by the Canadian Jewish Congress, for which Shaffer was a consultant. Also contains photocopies of articles related to the project.

  2. Poster. Yizkor Service in memory of the Jewish victims of Hitler Germany.

  3. Holocaust materials

    Includes material regarding the story of 93 girls who arrived to Canada in 1942 and the Spanish Civil War.

  4. Holocaust materials

    Includes material regarding the story of 93 girls who arrived to Canada in 1942 and the Spanish Civil War.

  5. Interviews with Lea Roback

  6. Exhibition material and poetry, the Kaddish Series

    This file contains poetry, notes and photographic documentation related to Briansky's Kaddish Series.

  7. Family Remembrance

    Contains two booklets of Holocaust memorials, 'Yom Hashoah, Holocaust Commemoration Service, 1995' and "We Will Not Forget Them - In Memory of the Jews of Vilna (1943- 1963)." Herein Sonia Tencer (nee Smolnik) tells the story of the murder of her brother, Leib Smolknik, during the Holocaust.

  8. Articles pertaining to the Holocaust

    Contains newspaper articles and copies of articles pertaining to the Holocaust by Alvin Rosenfeld, S. Zalman Abramov, and others.

  9. Nazi era ration card for Jews

  10. Presentation notes, "Art of the Holocaust"

    The file contains notes for Rita Briansky's slide presentation and lecture on art of the Holocaust.

  11. Organizing Committee to Convene a Grassroots Conference to Protest Hitler's Pogrom Against German Jews letter

    Item is a letter discussing Organizing Committee to Convene a Grassroots Conference to Protest Hitler's Pogrom Against German Jews, from Rabbi H. Abramovitch.

  12. Lea Roback Recollections

  13. Photographic reproductions of Rita Briansky's work, "Kaddish Series"

    Images are numbered and have descriptive poems written by Bella Briansky Kalter associated with each.

  14. Testimony pertaining to Nazi invasion of the Strand

    Contains a legal statement/attestation pertaining to Jules Janco's experience of an Iron Guard fascist invasion of the Strand (Ștrandul Kiseleff) in 1940, detailing his response and the witnesses involved.

  15. Presentation notes, "The Artists of Terezin"

    This file contains notes for Rita Briansky's presentation on the artists of Terezin.

  16. Leib Tencer Fonds

    Contains documents related to the life and career of Leib Tencer, including his involvement with JPPS/Bialik, the J.I. Segal Fund, and McGill University.