<div>Joe (Josef) Quittner was born 15 August 1923, the only child of a middle class assimilated Jewish family in Vienna. The family employed a cook and cleaner and a nanny for Joe. His father, Egon (born 16.7.1883), ran his own factory, and his mother, Amalia (born 18.12.1892), ran the retail store which sold the products which the factory produced. With the advent of the Nazis in 1938, the property ...

United Kosher Meat & Deli Ltd. was owned by Joe Lichtenstein. Prior to running United Kosher Meat & Deli Ltd. Joe ran his first shop, H & J Kosher Meat Shop, with partner Harry Weinstein at 1331 Wellington Street in Ottawa. In the late 1950's, Joe bought Cantor Kosher Meat Market, at 470 St. Patrick Street, with partner Joe Lebovic for $15,000, to be paid in two instalments. In 1976-1977, Joe moved ...

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The collection primarily documents the wartime experiences of Aaron Finger, originally of Toronto, Canada, who trained at Camp Ritchie and was in Germany from 1945-1946. Included is an identification card, letter of commendation, a small amount of correspondence, photographs, and a photograph album. Also included are a small amount of documents and photographs related to the family of his wife, Henrietta ...

Bibliogr.: p. 259-262. 276 p. ; 22 cm

Victor Kugler (Hohenelbe (Oostenrijk-Hongarije, thans Vrchlabí, Tjechië), 5 of 6 juni 1900 - Toronto, 14 december 1981) was een Oostenrijks-Nederlandse ondernemer, vooral bekend als één van de helpers van de onderduikers in Het Achterhuis. Als de onderduikers op 4 augustus 1944 worden ontdekt wordt ook Kugler opgepakt. Na gevangenschap in onder andere de gevangenis Amstelveenseweg, de Weteringschans ...

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Proceedings of a conference, Antisemitism : the politicization of prejudice in the contemporary world, held at the Munk Centre for International Studies at the University of Toronto in Feb. 2003. viii, 122 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

"‘H.W.R. was hier’ is het verhaal van een Canadese soldaat, opgetekend door Ernst Arbouw. In een stukje bos in Eelde, net buiten de stad Groningen, vindt Arbouw een boom met de initialen van een Canadese soldaat erin gekerfd: H.W.R. TORONTO. CANADA. Arbouw raakt gefascineerd en geobsedeerd. Wie was H.W.R.? Met niet meer dan die drie letters gaat hij op zoek en vindt in een geallieerd archief een naam: ...

Contains memoir, poetry, and prose written by George L. Scott, a survivor of the concentration camps of Savar, Auschwitz-Birkenau, Kaufering, Landsberg, and Dachau. His memoir "Life, Reach for it!" (formerly titled "The Way it Happened!") centers around his memories and descriptions of Birkenau. He now spends much of his time talking to students about his experiences at the Toronto Holocaust Centr ...

Journeys around the world to investigate areas still reeling from past conflicts, from the United States and its memory of slavery to Japan, France, and Germany, where the unrelenting pain of Hiroshima and the Holocaust still exists. Originally published: Toronto : Knopf Canada, 2000. xiv, 495 pages ; 24 cm

Photographs, correspondence, documentation and drawing surrounding the experiences of the Abusch and Pick families during the Holocaust and of siblings Frances and Max Abusch who fled Vienna, Austria on the Kindertransport. Their parents were able to travel to New York, where Frances soon joined them. Max eventually made his way to Toronto, ON, Canada. The collection also follows the Pick family, relatives ...

Lorraine Monk (née Spurrell) was born on May 26, 1922 in Montreal. She was a Canadian photographer and executive producer of the Photo Service (later Still Photo Division) of the National Film Board of Canada. She commissioned photography projects that chronicled the life and culture of the peoples of Canada. She also founded the Canadian Museum of Photography in Toronto in 1985.

Henry Weingluck was born in Zawiercie, Poland, in 1903. He was an artist (painter), often depicted Jewish themes; pupil of Max Lieberman; exhibited in Paris with Kandinsky and Chagall; exhibited in Art Gallery of Ontario and Jewish Museum, Berlin. Lived in France 1933-1942; imprisoned in eight concentration camps 1942-1945; later settled in Canada. He died in Toronto in 1987.

Leo Spellman (born Lazar Szpilman) received his first music lessons from his father Rivn, a well-known violinist and orchestra leader. He began his professional life at age nine, working after school as a pianist in a local movie house. Adept in both classical and popular repertoire, the young Szpilman played with municipal orchestras and traveled with dance bands to tourist resorts in southern Poland. ...