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Country: Canada

  1. April 2012 [graphic material (electronic)]

    This sub-sub-series includes original photographs that relate to activities or events attended by Stephen Harper as Prime Minister of Canada for the month of April 2012. It includes photographs of Stephen Harper's trip to Washington, DC for the North American Leaders' Summit where he met with Mexican President Felipe Calderón and United States President Barack Obama (April 1-2). It also includes photographs of Stephen Harper's trip to Cartagena, Colombia for the Summit of the Americas, where he met with Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos Calderón, Peruvian President Ollanta Humala, and ...

  2. WERNER, Rebecca (Dresher)

    Diary, 1936 by teenage Rebecca Dresher, written after older sister's death. Photo/clippings album, including letters, photos, poems, correspondence, translations from Polish and Yiddish, about family members who were victims of Holocaust and surviving family in Israel. Includes pre-1939 correspondence from relatives describing conditions in Poland. Pre-WWII photos of Lipton, Sonnenfeld, Hoffer Jewish farm families and Winnipeg family, post-WWII family photos from Montreal, photos (including colour) of pastry store in East End Montreal

  3. Loewy postcard collection

    Collection is comprised of twenty-eight postcards written by Sylvia Loewy, in Stockholm, Sweden, to her husband, Fritz, after his 1942 arrest and deportation. Not knowing where her husband was, Sylvia sent the postcards by registered mail to shtetls, ghettos and concentration camps throughout the Polish General Government territory. The postcards were sent in batches with similar messages, explaining that she lives in Sweden, that she is fine, and that she hopes to receive news from her husband as soon as possible.

  4. Emil L. Fackenheim sound recordings [sound recording]

    Series consists of sound recordings documenting lectures, talks, seminars and broadcasts given by Emil Fackenheim. Included is an address given by Fackenheim at Jerusalem Hall, Zionist Centre, Toronto, on the "Aliyah Today" movement and the attitudes of Jewish people to Israel; addresses by Professor Fackenheim to Holy Blossom Temple, Toronto, for the High Holy Days, September 1985; philosophy lectures; new public lectures; speeches and lectures delivered by Emil Fackenheim at the University of Toronto; speeches, lectures and assorted seminars given by Emil Fackenheim; lecture series by Emi...

  5. Audiovisual Recordings [moving images, sound recording]

    This series consists of audiovisual recordings created and maintained by the Hon. Marcel Prud'homme, which document his parliamentary career. The series includes mainly recorded broadcasts in which Prud'homme is speaking or giving an interview either in Parliament or at a broadcasting station. The recordings include Senate debates on various issues, notably Palestine; Prud'homme's being called to the Senate; career retrospectives; comments on current political events; interviews; and talk shows and call-in shows, especially with Quebec hosts Gilles Proulx, Jean LaPierre, and Michael Jasmin....

  6. BADER, Alfred = Internment-related documents

    Documents relating to his internment at Ile aux Noix camp, also about his grant to Queen's University. Includes photocopies of the official diary of the Canadian camp commandant.

  7. Leases: N.C.C. Property: Ottawa-Hull

    File contains material regarding The Mill restaurant strike; a National Holocaust Memorial at Ottawa, Ont.; The Penguin Theatre Company, Ottawa, Ont.; Tin House Court, Ottawa, Ont.; official residence Stornoway; the Ottawa School of Art; the Israeli Embassy, Ottawa, Ont.; the Canadian Red Cross Society, Ottawa, Ont.; the Daly Building, Ottawa, Ont.; the Old Carbide Building, Ottawa, Ontario; Housing in Ottawa. 1 list of "Restaurants"; 1 list of "N.C.C.. Business Leases in the National Capital Region"; 1 "Chronological History 35 George Street, Ottawa" (Sept. 1978-Sept. 1982); 1 list of "Res...

  8. BECKER, Lavy M

    Documents about Canadian Jewish Congress and Jewish Education. Articles about the Jews in Caribbean

  9. Anna Zofia Prasalek fonds

    Fonds consists of an article: “Would engrave symbol on survivors’ stones - June 19, 1987, an Ottawa Jewish Historical Society receipt for books and documents received from Zofia Prasalek, three books, a a copy of a certificate describing rescue work of Kozimizsh, April 25, 1961 from the Jewish Historical Institute (Zydowski Instytut Historyczny)

  10. ARCAND, Adrien (collection)

    Fascist newspapers, pamphlets and newsletters. Press clippings by and about Arcand. Canadian Jewish Congress correspondence relating to Arcand and anti-Semitism

  11. Herbert Steinhouse fonds [textual record, graphic material]

    The fonds consists of the personal papers and photographs of Herbert Steinhouse, documenting his life and work as a journalist, broadcaster, novelist and CBC producer and executive. It includes material relating to his service with the RCAF; education at McGill University and the New School for Social Research; involvement with the Oskar Schindler story; work as a freelance correspondent in Paris in the 1940s and 1950s; participation in the United Nations' special publicity mission to Southeast Asia in 1952; employment by Unesco as the editor-producer of its "World Review" weekly radio prog...

  12. Photographs and illustrations [graphic material]

    Series consists of photographs relating to Rabbi Bulka's life and career and depict views of his work with the Jewish community in Ottawa; Rabbi Bulka's first group tour of Israel, May 1979; his visit to the Star of David Hebrew School, Israel, October 1986; Karen and Ian Zunder's wedding, 1986; Yosef Meier's Bar Mitzvah, Los Angeles, 1988; Charithon Softball Marathon for the Children's Hospital of Eastern Ontario, Ottawa, 1990; Rabbi Bulka metting Mayor Jim Durrell and Mrs. Durrell, Ottawa, n.d.; attendance at Citizenship Court; a protest rally for Soviet Jewry; Inaugural North American Or...

  13. Correspondence and subject files [textual record, graphic material]

    Series consists of general correspondence, 1957-1986; correspondents include Stephen and Erika Barber, Ota Hora, Meyer Gasner and Ben Kayfetz concerning Joseph Kirschbaum, Alexander Kraus, Erich Kulka, Elliott Levine and the Canadian Association for Ethiopian Jews and Jacob M. Lowy; newsletters of the International Council of Jews from Czechoslovakia, 1972-1980 and correspondence with its president, Karl Baum, 1972-1976; files relating to Dr. Rosenberg's resolution passed by the Canadian Jewish Congress 21st Plenary Assembly in 1986 asking for the return of Judaic treasures to the Jewish Pe...

  14. Kerzner Family fonds

    Fonds consists of: DVD, recording of the Kerzner Family Reunion; Ethel Kerzner's family reunion name tag; 1 newspaper clipping regarding the Kerzner family reunion; 1 Kerzner family reunion t-shirt; 1 small trophy, earned at the Jewish Community Centre Day Camp, c.1965 DVD, My name is Ethel Kerzner, holoccaust survivor testimony, recorded January 25, 2015.

  15. Jennie Phillips fonds

    Fonds consists of photographs, vital records, personal notes, transcribed songs, correspondence and ephemera relating to the life of Jennie Phillips. Fonds has been arranged into the following series: JP photographs series (1912–1982), JP vital records series (1953–1979), JP personal papers series (1946–1987), Transcribed ghetto and camp songs series (1946), Stutthof Museum correspondence series (1984–1985) and JP ephemera series (1972).

  16. SOLOMON, Michel

    Manuscripts. Published essays and articles. Poems. Correspondence. Documentation and research for books. Magazines. Clippings. Cassettes of interviews.

  17. Pichos Zozulya collection

    The collection consists of correspondence from Pichos Zozulya to his descendants, describing the family’s experience of the Holocaust and its aftermath. Also includes a photograph of Pichos Zozulya dated 1964. Collection has been arranged into two files: Letters (1944) and Photograph (1964).

  18. Philatelic issues of 1995, Design and production [philatelic record, graphic material]

    The sub-series consists of records related to the design and production of the following 1995 philatelic issues: Masterpieces of Canadian Art (Alfred Pellan) - 8 (12 Apr.), Canadian Flag (1 May), Fortress of Louisbourg (5 May), Historic Land Vehicles - 3 (26 May), Canada Day: Group of Seven (29 Jun.), Manitoba (14 Jul.), Fruit Trees (31 Jul.), Queen Elizabeth II (31 Jul.), Migratory Wildlife (15 Aug.), The Arctic (15 Sept.), United Nations, 1945-1995 (24 Oct.), Christmas (2 Nov.), La Francophonie (6 Nov.), The Holocaust (9 Nov.). Sub-series also consists of a sketchbook of design submission...

  19. USA [textual record, graphic material]

    Sub-series containing correspondence with, among others, German Jewish Representative Committee, World Jewish Congress, Hebrew Union College Union of Jews from France, Location Service - American Jewish Congress, Institute of International Education, The Nation, Music Press, Inc, National Council of Jewish Women, University of Rochester, Aufbau Reconstruction, Library of Congress, University of Chicago Press, Herbert A. Strauss (International Biographical Archives and Dictionary of Central European Emigrés, 1933-45), Westchester Symphony Orchestra, American Bandmasters Association Foundatio...

  20. Ejnesman, Kornwaser family photograph collection

    Collection is comprised of original photographs and photo postcards of Shoshana Fidelman’s grandparents, parents, uncles and aunts and siblings, none of whom survived the Holocaust. Photographs were taken in Poland prior to the Second World War and mailed by Shoshana Fidelman’s family living in Starachowice-Wierzbnik and Bodzentyn to family members in Canada and Israel.