- Part Of
- Henry Cassel fonds
- Level
- File
- Fonds
- 93
- File
- 4
- Material Format
- textual record
- graphic material
- Date
- 1931-1933
- Physical Description
- 1 folder of textual records
- 1 photograph : b&w ; 7 x 9 cm
- Scope and Content
- File consists of records documenting Heinz Kassel's university education in Germany. The bulk of the records are textual and include study books and academic certificates. Also included is one photograph of Heinz with friends at the Berlin University in 1932. Identified in the photograph are (left to right): Heinz Kassel, Horst Wolf, Tamara (?), Fritz (?), and Franz Oppenheimer.
- Related Material
- A similar photograph of Heinz with his university friends can be found in the Kassel family photo album (fonds 93, file 2).
- Accession Number
- 2010-4-5
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Part Of
- Henry Cassel fonds
- Level
- File
- Fonds
- 93
- File
- 5
- Material Format
- textual record
- Date
- 1921-2000, predominant 1935-1939
- Physical Description
- 1 folder of textual records
- Scope and Content
- File consists of correspondence and legal records documenting Henry Cassel's emigration from Germany and attempt to immigrate to the United States of America. Included is Henry's passport, nationality identification card, birth certificates, driving certificates, USA immigration sponsorship application, correspondence regarding his application to enter the USA, criminal background checks, a citizenship visa for Italy, and a registration card indicating Henry's place of employment. Also included are newspaper clippings that were collected by Henry regarding the Jewish community of Ferrara, Italy (a region that Henry had travelled through).
- Notes
- Photocopies of some Italian and German records with translated titles are attached to the accession record.
- Access Restriction
- Closed. Researchers must receive permission from the OJA director prior to accessing the records.
- Accession Number
- 2010-4-5
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Part Of
- Henry Cassel fonds
- Level
- File
- Fonds
- 93
- File
- 6
- Material Format
- textual record
- Date
- [ca. 1940]-1947, 1996
- Physical Description
- 1 folder of textual records
- Scope and Content
- File consists of Henry Cassel's personal and legal correspondence. The bulk of the correspondence is between Henry and his parents during his internment in Canada. Also included is correspondence between Henry and his cousin just after the war in which he learns of his parents' death, and legal correspondence regarding his parents' possessions. Finally, file contains correspondence regarding Yad Vashem Pages of Testimony.
- Access Restriction
- Closed. Researchers must receive permission from the OJA director prior to accessing the records.
- Accession Number
- 2010-4-5
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Part Of
- Henry Cassel fonds
- Level
- File
- Fonds
- 93
- File
- 7
- Material Format
- textual record
- Date
- 1940-1942
- Physical Description
- 1 folder of textual records
- Scope and Content
- File consists of records documenting Henry Cassel's internment in England and Canada. Cassel originally maintained these records together in a binder. Included is a journal documenting Cassel's first few months in the camps, correspondence between Cassel and Jewish agencies, instruction sheets and correspondence regarding camp functions and regulations, blank copies of government forms that were filled in by internees in Canada, poems and/or songs written by internees about their experience, newspaper clippings, a copy of the standing orders for the camp, correspondence between the camp committee and the commanding officer, a financial statement, a program for a play put on in the camp by internees, and correspondence regarding Cassel's activities as canteen steward.
- Accession Number
- 2010-4-5
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Part Of
- Henry Cassel fonds
- Level
- File
- Fonds
- 93
- File
- 9
- Material Format
- textual record
- Date
- 1969, 1996-2000
- Physical Description
- 1 folder of textual records
- Scope and Content
- File consists of correspondence and issues of the Ex-Internees Newsletter, which was produced by men who had been interned with Cassel in Canada.
- Accession Number
- 2010-4-5
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Part Of
- Henry Cassel fonds
- Level
- File
- Fonds
- 93
- File
- 10
- Material Format
- textual record
- Date
- 1944, 1946
- Physical Description
- 1 folder of textual records
- Scope and Content
- File consists of records documenting Henry Cassel's naturalization as a Canadian citizen. Included is a newspaper clipping, Cassel's Oath of Allegiance, and Cassel's Certificate of naturalization.
- Accession Number
- 2010-4-5
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Part Of
- Henry Cassel fonds
- Level
- File
- Fonds
- 93
- File
- 11
- Material Format
- textual record
- Date
- 12 Nov. 1944, 13 Oct. 1962
- Physical Description
- 1 folder of textual records
- Scope and Content
- File consists of a photocopy of Henry and Reta Cassel's marriage certificate (ketubah) and a photocopy of a certificate naming Henry Cassel the legal administrator of his late wife's property.
- Subjects
- Ketubah
- Accession Number
- 2010-4-5
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Part Of
- Henry Cassel fonds
- Level
- File
- Fonds
- 93
- File
- 12
- Material Format
- textual record
- Date
- 1946-1947
- Physical Description
- 1 folder of textual records
- Scope and Content
- File consists of records documenting Henry Cassel's military service in the Royal Canadian Army. Included is correspondence, pay statements, Cassel's discharge certificate, a military request form to return to his previous place of employment, and photocopies of photographs of Cassel and his wife, Reta.
- Accession Number
- 2010-4-5
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Part Of
- Henry Cassel fonds
- Level
- File
- Fonds
- 93
- File
- 13
- Material Format
- graphic material
- Date
- 1943-1946
- Physical Description
- 1 album (ca. 50 photographs) : 37 x 31 cm
- Scope and Content
- File consists of one photograph album documenting Henry Cassel's life in Canada from 1943-1946. Included are photographs of Henry and his wife, Reta, around Ontario just before their marriage and in Borden, Manitoba during Henry's military service. Also included are photographs of Henry and Reta during a trip they took to New York City. Of note is a photograph of Henry and Reta on the day of their wedding.
- Accession Number
- 2010-4-5
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Part Of
- Henry Cassel fonds
- Level
- File
- Fonds
- 93
- File
- 14
- Material Format
- textual record
- Date
- [193-?]
- Physical Description
- 1 folder of textual record
- Scope and Content
- File consists of a newspaper clipping and a circular cut-out of a German anti-Semitic Jewish caricature. These records are of unknown origins.
- Accession Number
- 2010-4-5
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Part Of
- Henry Cassel fonds
- Level
- File
- Fonds
- 93
- File
- 15
- Material Format
- textual record
- Date
- [ca. 2000]
- Physical Description
- 1 folder of textual record
- Scope and Content
- File consists of correspondence and family trees documenting the genealogy of the Cassel (Kassel), Midas, Freeman, and Sugarman families. The family trees are traced back to the 1840s.
- Accession Number
- 2010-4-5
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Part Of
- Henry Cassel fonds
- Level
- File
- Fonds
- 93
- File
- 16
- Material Format
- textual record
- Date
- 1983-1984
- Physical Description
- 1 folder of textual record
- Scope and Content
- File consists of textual records collected by Henry Cassel documenting the history of his home town and its Jewish community, Aschaffenburg. Included is correspondence, newspaper clippings, a brochure and a booklet.
- Accession Number
- 2010-4-5
- Source
- Archival Descriptions