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Country: Canada

  1. SCHWARTZ, Musia = Photos of postwar Germany and Canada

    22 TIFF scans of photos borrowed from her personal album, showing Eschwege DP camp. Glasterhausen orphanage. Hamburg and scenes after immigrating to Montreal. Some are portraits of the donor and some include husband Leon and friends, aunt.

  2. April

    This file is arranged by event and pertains to the following events: the North American Leaders' Summit (NALS) in Washington, DC, USA (1-2 April 2012); Easter weekend in Calgary, AB (5-9 April 2012); the Summit of the Americas in Cartagena, Colombia, and bilateral meetings in Santiago, Chile (13-17 April 2012); an announcement on financial support for the families of missing and murdered children in Sherbrooke, QC (20 April 2012); the National Holocaust Remembrance Day ceremony at the Canadian War Museum in Ottawa, ON (23 April 2012); and a Vaisakhi celebration on Parliament Hill in Ottawa,...

  3. Jewish Labour Committee of Canada fonds [textual record, graphic material, sound recording]

    Fonds consists of office files, photographs, sound recordings, posters, and other records created, accumulated, and used by the Jewish Labour Committee of Canada and its successive national directors, including material relating to the following: meetings, finances and correspondence of the JLC; regional offices in Montreal, Toronto and Winnipeg; correspondence with labour and government; printed materials; and JLC human rights and labour committees across Canada. The photographs in the fonds depict the activities of the Jewish Labour Committee in Montreal and Ottawa, 1941-1970. Sound recor...

  4. League studies [textual record]

    Series consists of records on research on solutions to national and global problems. Special study projects and programmes included the following: police-community relations (correspondence and memoranda and articles chiefly by Sol Littman); religious education in the schools (correspondence, memoranda, the Keiller Mackay Report and other reports); religious anti-semitism (correspondence and memoranda); energy use (correspondence, memoranda and news clippings); Middle-East affairs (memoranda, news clippings and booklets); the United Nations and Human Rights Declarations (correspondence, new...

  5. Andrew Danson Art Projects [graphic material]

    This series consists of documents related to a selection of Andrew Danson's art projects. The projects are photo-based, often using photoshop to layer text or manipulate images. The works express Danson's interests in the Holocaust, women's issues, environmental degradation, war, politics and consumerism, often influenced by his Buddhist practice and philosophy.The series contains analogue prints and digital files, related to the folllowing art works: Amnesia, Cause and Effect, I Love You Woman, Illusions, InHerIt, Still Life and Let's Talk. Analogue negatives and contact sheets for some of...

  6. WEINGLUCK, Henry

    Documents on Le Chef de groupe no. 405 de Travailleurs, étrangers, Meyssac, France 1941-1942. Exhibition catalogue 1978. Clippings 1977-1985. 3 paintings on Jewish themes in Art storage.

  7. Lorraine Monk Fonds

    This fonds contains a letter addressed to Lorraine Monk from JPL Director David Rome.

  8. 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...

  9. 1946 letters addressed to wife (Augusta) from Eastern European cities, plus letter to Hillel Becker

    Contains 4 letters from Becker addressed to wife (Augusta) from Eastern European cities on July 23, 24, and 26, and August 2, 1946, describing his work through the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee. Also contains a transcribed copy of a letter addressed to son Hillel Becker in June of 1946 from the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp.

  10. Philatelic issues of 1995, Products [philatelic record]

    This is a preliminary description; please consult the linked accessions. Sub-series consists of philatelic products issued by Canada Post Corporation between 20 March - 9 November, 1995, including the following 1995 stamp issues: Second World War, 1939-1945; Art Canada. Blossoming, c. 1950, Alfred Pellan; The Canadian flag, 1965-1995; Fortress of Louisbourg; Historic Land Vehicles, Farm & Frontier Vehicles; Golf in Canada; Lunenburg Academy Centenary; The Group of Seven; Manitoba, 1870-1995; Fruit Trees; Queen Elizabeth II; Migratory Wildlife; Greetings booklet; Bridges; The Arctic; Sup...

  11. McGill University correspondence

    The file contains correspondence from Sandy Thorburn, John Burge, Judith Zaimont, and Canadian Who's Who, among others. It also includes a notice from the Board of Governors of McGill University informing Brian Cherney that he has been appointed Chairman of the Department of Theory, Faculty of Music from July 1, 2002 to June 30, 2005. In addition the file contains a paper by Barbara E. Galli titled Idolizing the Imageless:The (Anti-) Redemptive Remove in Shoah-Relating Works of Art, student academic recommendations, a teaching statement written by Brian Cherney (April 2005), and a McGill Un...

  12. Sol Littman fonds [multiple media]

    Fonds consists of Sol Littman's personal papers containing correspondence, memoranda, briefs, submissions, publications, articles, speeches, microfilms, research notebooks and materials, videotapes, films and photographs pertaining to the Albert Helmut Rauca case; the hunt for World War Two era war criminals and collaborators living in Canada including members of the Croation Ustasha, Hungarian Arrow Cross, Romanian Iron Guard, Slovak Hlinka Guard and the Ukrainian 14th Waffen-SS Volunteer Grenadier Division; the Deschênes Commission and Jewish-Ukrainian relations; suspected war criminal ca...

  13. April 2006 [graphic material (electronic)]

    This sub-sub-series consists of a selection of photographs chosen by the official photographers that relate to activities or events attended by Stephen Harper as Prime Minister of Canada for the month of April 2006. It includes photographs of Mr. Harper at the re-election of Peter Milliken as Speaker of the House of Commons (April 3) and of Michaëlle Jean's Speech from the Throne (April 4). In addition, the sub-sub-series documents Stephen Harper's first Question Period as Prime Minister (April 5), an event honouring former Prime Minister Brian Mulroney (April 20), and a commemorative cerem...

  14. 2009-11-04 Payette

    Prime Minister Stephen Harper chats with Jasmine Igneski in the Government Lobby after Question Period. Prime Minister Stephen Harper meets with Canadian Astronaut Julie Payette and her fellow crew members of space shuttle mission STS-127 (Pilot Doug Hurley, astronauts David Wolf, Christopher Cassidy and Tom Marshburn) in his Parliament Hill office. Prime Minister Stephen Harper meets with the Polish Righteous and Holocaust Survivors in his Parliament Hill office. The following people are also depicted in the photographs: Jason Kenney, Jeremy Hunt, Jasmine Igneski, Leona Aglukkaq, Julie Pay...

  15. April 2006 [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 in April 2006. It includes photographs of Mr. Harper at the re-election of Peter Milliken as Speaker of the House of Commons (April 3). A number of events in April 2006 are not documented in this sub-series, including Michaëlle Jean's Speech from the Throne (April 4), Stephen Harper's first Question Period as Prime Minister (April 5), an event honouring former Prime Minister Brian Mulroney (April 20), and a commemorative ceremony for the victims of the...

  16. DUCHOW, Rebecca Briansky = Memoirs of a Polish childhood, Grajewo

    209-page unpublished typescript with illustrations, titled . Also a diskette containing the text.

  17. JEDWAB, Henryk [memoirs of Poland 1918-1945]

    The fonds consists of 48-page typed memoir (photocopy) about his life in Poland, service in Polish army during World War II, Holocaust experiences, relations with Catholic faith in Poland. Memoir includes photocopies of photos. Originals are with the author.

  18. Interview with Lea Roback

  19. Bert Raphael fonds [textual record]

    Fonds consists of material which relates to Mr. Raphael's communal endeavours. Subject files relate to: his work on behalf of Soviet Jewry including the Dimitri Berman case; the Jewish Civil Rights Educational Foundation; the prosecution of war criminals and racists in Canada and the promotion of Holocaust education; the Canadian campaign to force the Syrian government to permit Syrian Jewry to emigrate from Syria; the International Association of Jewish Lawyers and Jurists of which he is an executive member; and the Toronto-based Reena Foundation for the developmentally handicapped.

  20. Joseph Rogel Fonds

    The fonds contains records pertaining to the life of Joseph Rogel, including his literary output (manuscripts, poetry, essays and translation), as well as incoming and outgoing correspondences. It also contains audio interviews.