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Rother family
- Accession Number
- 2018-10-5
- Source
- Archival Accessions
- Accession Number
- 2018-10-5
- Material Format
- textual record
- Physical Description
- 7 cm of graphic material and textual records
- 1 folder (oversize) of graphic material and textual records
- 1 scrapbook ; 37 x 31 cm
- Date
- 1916-2008, predominant 1940-1998
- Scope and Content
- Accession consists of material documenting the Rother family, in particular Irving and Florence Rother. Included are: three of Irving Rother's Second World War letters; professional and educational certificates for Irving Rother; service records for Irving Rother; records documenting the sale of the family's Rother Cigar Store; a letter to Dr. and Mrs. Rother from Lester C. Sugarman welcoming the couple and their family to Holy Blossom Temple; records (including group portraits) of Hadassah-WIZO Rishon Chapter, which Florence Rother belonged to; and an Alpha Phi Pi scrapbook.
- Administrative History
- Florence Rother (née Warshavsky) was born in 1919. In 1998, she was honoured for her service to the Rishon Chapter of Toronto Hadassah-WIZO. She died at home on 9 July 2016.
- Dr. Irving Rother was born in 1919. He studied at the University of Toronto, where he was part of the Phi Delta Epislon Fraternity. He graduated in January 1943 with a Doctor of Medicine degree. During the Second World War, he held the rank of captain in the Royal Canadian Army Medical Corps (RCAMC) and served in Canada, the United Kingdom, and continental Europe. After the war, Rother moved to Baltimore, Maryland, where he served on the house staff of Sinai Hospital first as assistant resident on the pathology service and then as intern and assistant resident on the medical service.
- In 1953, Dr. and Mrs. Rother and their family became members of Holy Blossom Temple in Toronto.
- Use Conditions
- Copyright may not be held by the Ontario Jewish Archives. It is the responsibility of the researcher to obtain permission prior to use.
- Subjects
- Families
- Physicians
- World War, 1939-1945
- Name Access
- Rother (family)
- Rother, Florence
- Rother, Irving, 1919-2018
- Places
- Baltimore (Md.)
- England
- Toronto (Ont.)
- Source
- Archival Accessions