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Country: Canada

  1. 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...

  2. USHER, Moses L.

    Documents and photographs, primarily letters addressed to family members. The development of this Jewish serviceman's attitude towards the war is discernible in the course of the collection.

  4. Vancouver Holocaust Education Centre fonds

    • Vancouver Holocaust Education Centre
    • RA000
    • English
    • 1981-2019
    • 596.8 cm of textual records / 5.96 m of textual records574 photographs : prints, black and white, colour545 slides : 35 mm ; black and white, colour65 photographs : negatives51 videocassettes33 audio cassettes754.1 MB of born-digital records116 CDs61 DVDs9 floppy disks16 zip drives23 posters2 banners4 flash drives3 objects2 .mp4s12 .mp3s

    Fonds consists of records generated by staff and volunteers of the Vancouver Holocaust Education Centre in the planning and administration of exhibitions, school programs, commemorative events, symposia, communications as well as a resource centre. Fonds has been arranged into the following series: Exhibition records, Newsletters, Event programming records.

  6. Vera Gara fonds

    Fonds consists of 1 video cassette produced by CPAC (Canadian Public Affairs Channel) entitled Searching for Nazi Looted Art, January, 29, 2001.

  7. Videocassettes [moving images]

    The series comprises videocassettes that document June Callwood's life and work on behalf of civil liberties, prison reform, health care, and the women's movement. The videos include television interviews with Callwood from different programs; recordings of the 1988 and 2001 Order of Canada ceremonies honouring her; public service announcements featuring her; and recordings of subjects of interest to her which did not involve her directly. She was interviewed for television by the Vision TV series "The Time of Your Life"; Cable Public Affairs Channel series "A Public Life"; Crossroads Telev...

  8. Vilcsek family collection

    Collection consists primarily of records generated or used during the period of the Second World War by the Vilcsek family in Budapest, Hungary. These include vital statistics and personal records of the Vilcsek family, photographs, and postcards mailed to the family from Ernő Vilcsek while he was in a labour camp in Hungary. Collection also consists of artworks, several on the theme of the Holocaust, created by Eva Kero after her immigration to Vancouver, BC.Collection has been arranged into three series: Correspondence (1942), Family records ([after 1881]–1949) and Artworks (1969–1971).

  10. Vladimir Zhirinovsky

  11. von Baiersdorf, Reif family fonds

    • Vancouver Holocaust Education Centre
    • RA007
    • English
    • 3.7 cm of textual records1 title25 photographs : black and white1 album1 print2 death books1 family chronicle1 autograph book2 ledgers6 published books1 chocolate box

    Fonds consists of records relating to the ennobling of the von Baiersdorf family in 1884, the family’s personal financial record keeping, marriages, Otto Reif’s assistance to a displaced person, Erna von Engel-Baiersdorf’s work as a museum curator and artist, the deaths of Clara Baiersdorf Erdos and Elise Reif and the family’s religious and liturgical life.Records include correspondence; an illuminated document conferring a noble title on the von Baiersdorf family from the nineteenth century; personal photographs; two death books; an autograph book; two ledgers; a small collection of rare p...

  13. Wandering Tulip Productions fonds [moving images]

    Fonds consists of a trilogy of short films, Zyklon portrait, Walnut tree and Silent song, produced by Wandering Tulip Productions and directed by Elida Schogt. The films examine the Holocaust and Ms. Schogt's family's experiences. Ms. Schogt's maternal grandparents lived in Holland where they were discovered in hiding by the Nazis. They were sent to the Auschwitz extermination camp where they were murdered in the gas chambers. Their children were not captured and survived. One of their children, Elida Schogt's mother, is featured in the films.

  14. War crimes including the Ukrainian 14th Waffen-SS Division [textual record (some microform)]

    Series consists of subject files which are arranged alphabetically regarding Sol Littman's investigative research into the history surrounding the entry of World War Two war criminals and Nazi collaborators and supporters into Canada and in particular members of the Ukrainian 14th Waffen-SS Volunteer GrenadierDivision commonly known as the Galician or Halychyna Division. Also included are microfilms from the United States National Archives Records Administration. These include: his work with Jewish organizations including the B'nai Brith Canada League for Human Rights, Canadian Jewish Congr...

  16. 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.

  17. 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

  19. Wiesenthal lists

    Information on Romanian Iron Guardists collected by Friends of Simon Wiesenthal Center for Holocaust Studies - and some notes on its utility

  20. 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.