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Gertrude Katz was Dr. Henry Morgentaler's friend, confidant, and co-worker in the Committee for Neutral Schools, and in taking abortion out of the criminal law. Pro-choice advocate Dr. Morgentaler (1923-2013) was one of the first Canadian doctors to perform vasectomies, to insert intrauterine devices, and to provide birth control pills to unmarried women. Beginning in 1969, he opened eight abortion ...

Fonds consists of photographs, International Refugee Organization (IRO) documents, court document, correspondence, and German driver’s license relating to the life of Sender Mines. Fonds has been arranged in the following series: SM photographs series (1922–[195-]), SM IRO documents series (1949–1951), Court document series (1951), and Bund der Verfolgten des Naziregimes e.V. (BVN) correspondence series ...

Samuel Chalupovitsch (1911-1990) was born on 10 April 1911 in Helsinki, Finland to Pesach (1879-1972) and Hana (née Engel, 1874-1934) Chalupovitsch. Samuel had three sisters, Sara (b. 1906), Feige (1907-1990), and Liebe (1914-1995). They were an observant Jewish family, and Pesach worked as a merchant. During World War II, Samuel served in the Finnish Army on the Eastern front of the Continuation War ...

A biography of Hena and Aron Borenstejn, written by their daughter (née Elizabeta) following her trip to Poland in 1997. Her maternal grandparents, Sara and David Lipszyc, lived near Warsaw, with their children Adolf (Adek, b. 1911) and Hena (b. 1915). The family lived together until Hena's husband Aron was taken for forced labor in 1940. Hena and her son Staszek (Stanley, b. 1939) lived as Aryans ...

Ministerie van Buitenlandse Zaken: Consulaat te Vancouver, Vice-Consulaat te Edmonton; Vice-Consulaat te Chatham, (Canada) > CONSULAAT TE VANCOUVER (1924-1954 > VERKEER EN VERVOER > Stukken betreffende de uitvoering van de instructies en maatregelen, ontvangen van het ministerie van Buitenlandse Zaken en van het consulaat-generaal te Montreal, met betrekking tot het aanmonsteren en het deserteren van ...

Contains letters written by Joseph Dainow from September to December 1945 describing his experiences while working in the Office of the U. S. Chief of Counsel during the International Military Tribunal in Nuremberg, Germany, and his visits to Fürth, Germany, and encounters with the remaining members of the Jewish community there; "Joe Dainow : Letters from Nuremberg 1945," which contains photocopies ...

"[This book] seeks to break the cycle of indifference and confront the political will not to intervene that was so painfully evident in 1994. Drawing on incisive case studies contrasting American and Canadian government responses to Rwandan Genocide and events in Kosovo in 1999, the W21 [Will to Intervene Project] research team draws on lessons learned from its interviews with over eighty policy makers ...