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 Born in Poland, Rebecca Dresher Werner immigrated to Canada as a child in 1928. Her family first settled in Hoffer, Saskatchewan, a Western colony set up by the Jewish Colonization Association. An older sister moved to Winnipeg during the 1930s. After World War II, the Dresher parents moved to a farm in Repentigny, Quebec. Mrs. Werner and her husband settled in Montreal after the war and opened a pastry shop, the Patisserie Montreal, in the city's east end, at St. Catherine and Plessis Streets.