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Type of Material : Official Documentation, Survey Report, Statistical Data

Language : English

Letters, surveys, and memoranda concerning the Canadian Jewish Farm School in Ontario province, 1920s–1940s, including documentation associated with an unsuccessful attempt by Morris Saxe to bring Holocaust survivors to Canada in 1946 - survey on functioning of the Canadian Jewish Farm School in Georgetown, Ontario, sent by O.G. Adams to the Canadian department of immigration and settlement in Ottawa on April 6, 1929; - letter from M[orris] Saxe, principal of the Canadian Jewish Farm School to A. Rhinewine, published in the Toronto Hebrew Journal on April 4, 1930; - memorandum on the functioning of the...

File Number : 1626

Type of Material : Appeal to the Authorities, Memorandum, Survey, Letter, Official Documentation

Language : English

Diary of Gitla (Igra) Tuchsneider, a Holocaust survivor born in Zaglembia, Poland; Yizkor Memorial Book from the years 1941-1964 published by the Association of Former Residents of Zaglembia in Toronto, Canada in 1964 - In Gitla's diary: Asher, Gitla's first husband, and their children perished; after the end of the war, Gitla married Ephraim Tuchsneider, who was also a Holocaust survivor, whom she met in a Joint Distribution Committee (JDC) DP camp in Italy; in the diary Gitla describes her experiences and those of the members of her family during the Holocaust period; in the diary there are also...

File Number : 9499

Type of Material : Diary, Memoirs Literature

Language : English, Yiddish