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Country: Canada

  1. Undzer Zhornl (Our Journal) — Rosh Hashanah 5707 (October 1946) Issue

    Contains the Rosh Hashanah 5707 issue of “Our Journal”—a periodical published by the American Council for Warsaw Jews. Journal contains appeals for donations, articles regarding the situation of Warsaw survivors in Europe, accounts of the Holocaust, and poetry.

  2. Central Committee of Polish Jews — 1946 Activities Report

    Contains a report regarding the activities of the Central Committee of Polish Jews to aid Polish Holocaust survivors. These include providing food, clothes, children’s homes, etc. Booklet largely consists of graphs and diagrams.

  3. 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.

  4. Personal correspondence, 1981-1985

    Contains personal correspondence from 1981 to 1985, including a nomination for an Order of Canada, a letter from President Reagan inviting Becker to the White House, and correspondence related to the Holocaust Survivors Documentation Campaign.

  5. 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.

  6. Lorraine Monk Fonds

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

  9. 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...

  10. Surintendance centrale [document textuel]

    La série est constituée de documents créés et conservés par la surintendance centrale (Toronto). Cette série comprend également de la correspondance, les comptes de pension, des documents de nature générale sur les terres ainsi que des documents qui traitent de l'école industrielle d'Alnwick.

  14. Cobourg Registrar of Shipping [textual record]

    Sub-series consists of ship registration records compiled by the Registrar of Shipping in Cobourg, Ontario, and includes first registers, registers of subsequent transactions and mortgage registers. The registers contain information describing the type, size, dimension and means of propulsion for each vessel registered at this port as well as ownership details and ultimate disposition.

  16. [Beaverlodge mining operation at Uranium City, Saskatchewan] [cartographic material]

    Accession consists of maps, geological data and engineering plans pertaining to the Beaverlodge mining operation, Uranium City, Saskatchewan, one of the first major uranium mining operations to be established outside the Northwest Territories. The records for the Beaverlodge operation span from 1947 to June 1982 when it closed.

  17. Gertrude Katz fonds [multiple media]

    Fonds consists of personal papers of Gertrude Katz, consisting of personal correspondence with prison inmates in the Quebec penitentiary system and other materials which she collected for her book, The Time gatherers, including draft manuscripts of the book as well as book reviews along with political and abortion campaign buttons. Also included are Gertrude Katz's files relating to her involvement with the Committee for Neutral Schools based in Quebec in the 1960s; her role as campaign manager of Dr. Henry Morgentaler's 1972 Quebec election campaign bid; and correspondence, briefs and othe...

  18. 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...

  19. 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; ...