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Sam Lichtman
- Accession Number
- 2012-11-2
- Source
- Archival Accessions
- Accession Number
- 2012-11-2
- Material Format
- sound recording
- Physical Description
- 2 sound recordings (ca. 45 min.) : mp3
- Date
- 25 Apr. 1983
- Scope and Content
- Accession consists of sound recordings of an interview conducted by Maxine Cadsby with her mother Fanny (nee Shapero) Lichtman. They discuss the life of Maxine's father, Sam Lichtman.
- Custodial History
- The original oral history recording is on a cassette tape and is in the possession of Maxine Cadsby. It was returned to her after it was copied.
- Administrative History
- Sam Lichtman was born in 1888 in Galicia. He immigrated to Canada on his own in 1901 with 25 cents in his pocket. He started out as a newsboy selling daily papers and comic papers in Toronto. He later opened his own news store, Lichtman's, and became a newspaper distributor. Around 1918, he married Fanny (nee Shapero) and they had four daughters together: Grace Hillman, Marjorie Rosenfield, Eileen Hertzman, and Maxine Cadsby. Sam passed away in 1958.
- Source
- Archival Accessions