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Len Berger
- Accession Number
- 1985-7-5
- Source
- Archival Accessions
- Accession Number
- 1985-7-5
- Material Format
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- 25 photographs : b&w
- Date
- 1897-1946
- Scope and Content
- The accession consists of twenty-five photographs documenting the family of Len Berger.
- Administrative History
- Leonard was born in Toronto on March 3, 1923 to Samuel and Rebecca (nee Rottenberg) Berger. He served in the Royal Canadian Air Force as a bomber during the Second World War and married Goldie Fine in 1950. He ran a business out of the their house on Wigan Crescent.
- His paternal grandparents were Myer and Bertha (nee Lubnitsky) Berger. They were from Romania and arrived in Canada around 1904. The couple had four children: Samuel, Minnie (m. Lieberman), Ann (m. Bochner) and Esther (m. Bernard).
- Samuel married Rebecca Rottenberg at Beth Jacob synagogue on Henry Street on 30 December 1917. Around that time the couple both worked in factories, he as a cutter and she as an operator. They resided at 102 Oxford Street. He later enlisted in the Canadian military on 4 September 1918. The couple had two children: Beatrice and Leonard.
- Rebecca Rottenberg's parents were Lazar (Louis) and Bertha (nee Appell) Rottenberg. They came from Russia around 1896 and resided at112 Chestnut Street in 1901. He worked as a cloak operator.They moved to 90 Denison Street around 1910, where he worked out of his house. The family lived there for many years and raised a large family in that home. Their ten children included: Goldie, Lena, Rebecca (Becky), Louis, Harry, Pearl, Molly (Mary), Samuel, Sarah (Shirley) and Rosie.
- Source
- Archival Accessions