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Language of Description: English
Holding Institution: Library and Archives Canada

  4. United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

  9. William Kurelek fonds [graphic material]

    Accession comprises works by William Kurelek dating primarily from his teenage years and containing as well one sketchbook with drawings relating to the Holocaust and the prison camp in Dachau and two later finished drawings from his 1969 travels to Hong Kong and South Africa. Also included were one photograph and three postcards depicting threshing scenes in Western Canada.

  15. Oskar Schindler [textual record, graphic material]

    This series documents Steinhouse's involvement with the Oskar Schindler saga from 1948-1949 when he researched and wrote the first story about Schindler to 1993-1995 when his research confirmed the "fictional" accounts told in the novel by Keneally and the film by Spielberg. It includes Steinhouse's original manuscript of "The German who Saved a Thousand Lives"; a transcript of his interview with Oskar Schindler and Itzhak Stern, 1948; copies of documents given to him by Schindler; a signed thank-you letter from Schindler; testimonies by Jewish survivors to the veracity of his story, 1948; ...

  17. Canadian Jewish Congress fonds [textual record, sound recording, moving images]

    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 Voi...