Level

Item

Item

3077

Material Format

graphic material

Responsibility

Photograph by Ben Lechtman.

Date

31 May 1981

Physical Description

2 photographs : (1 negative)

Scope and Content

Item is a photograph of a protester holding a sign that reads, "We shall not forget." The protester was attending an anti-Nazi demonstration in front of neo-Nazi Ernst Zündel's home in Toronto, Ontario.

Notes

Source of title proper: Title based on contents of image.

Statement of responsibility: Photograph by Ben Lechtman.

Name Access

Zündel, Ernst, 1939-2017

Subjects

Demonstrations

Neo-Nazis

Places

Toronto (Ont.)

Source

Archival Descriptions

Accession Number

2016-6-12

Material Format

graphic material

textual record

Physical Description

ca. 60 cm of textual records

11 photographs (3 negatives) : b&w ; 20 x 25 cm or smaller

Date

1976-[ca. 1990]

Scope and Content

Accession consists of textual and graphic records that trace Natan Sharansky's history as a prisoner of political conscience; the broader Refusenik issue; and the community advocacy efforts of Debby and Stan Solomon from 1976 and into the late 1980s at the local, national and international scales. Included are memos and newsletters from the Committee for Soviet Jewry (Ontario Region and national-level); background information as well as petition templates, speeches and planning documentation produced by the Committee to Release Anatoly Sharansky and the Beth Tikvah Synagogue in conjunction with community organizations, including the CJC and its Soviet Jewry social action committees, to support on-going advocacy efforts; correspondence with Canadian and American political representatives at the provincial/state and national levels; white papers/grey literature from non-governmental organizations about the persecution of the Soviet Jewry; planning documentation from the First Annual Sharansky Lectureship on Human Rights in 1980; correspondence, articles and ephemera associated with the granting of Sharansky's honourary law doctorate from York University in 1982; 1985 Freedom Rally/Weekend in Ottawa planning documentation and correspondence; 1987 National Conference on the Soviet Jewry and Mobilization for Freedom planning documentation; 1987 Community Rally at Massey Hall promotional materials; and promotional materials from Sharansky's autobiographical "Fear No Evil" 1988 book launch. Graphic material includes photographs of Sharansky's release during the February 11, 1986 American-Soviet prisoner exchange on the Glienicke Bridge in Berlin.

Identified in the photographs are: Debby Solomon; Stan Solomon; Natan Sharansky; Avital Sharansky; U.S. Ambassador Richard Burt;

Custodial History

Material was collected and/or created by Debby Solomon, Natan Sharansky's cousin. Debby donated it to the OJA.

Administrative History

Debby Solomon is the cousin of Anatoly (Natan) Sharansky, the Soviet born Israeli politician, human activist and author who spent nine years in Soviet prisons. Debby's father Boris Landis (born 1900) and Sharansky's father were first cousins.Their grandfathers were brothers. Debby's father immigrated 1929 to Toronto from Russia as his older brothers were already in Toronto. Debby and her husband Stan Solomon got involved in the community's activism efforts to free Sharansky and other Refuseniks.They were worked for many years on these efforts by planning programs through their synagogue Beth Tikvah and with Sam Filer, a lawyer and volunteer at the CJC who was also a member of Beth Tikvah.

Subjects

Antisemitism

Politics and government

Human rights

Demonstrations

Synagogues

Committees

Source

Archival Accessions

Level

Item

Item

4428

Material Format

graphic material

Date

Apr. 1986

Physical Description

1 photograph

Notes

Photo by Graphic Artists.

Name Access

North American High School Network

Subjects

Demonstrations

Human rights

Places

Bathurst Street (Toronto, Ont.)

Accession Number

1986-12-3

Source

Archival Descriptions

Level

Item

Item

4406

Material Format

graphic material

Date

1985

Physical Description

1 photograph

Scope and Content

Wally Reinstein, National Hillel Co-ordinator.

Notes

Original photos by Graphic Artists, Toronto.

Subjects

Demonstrations

Hanukkah

Refuseniks

Repro Restriction

Copyright may not be held by the Ontario Jewish Archives. It is the responsibility of the researcher to obtain permission prior to use.

Places

Nathan Phillips Square (Toronto, Ont.)

Accession Number

1986-12-3

Source

Archival Descriptions

Level

Item

Item

4203

Material Format

graphic material

Date

1986

Physical Description

1 photograph : col.

Subjects

Demonstrations

Refuseniks

Repro Restriction

Copyright may not be held by the Ontario Jewish Archives. It is the responsibility of the researcher to obtain permission prior to use.

Places

Queen's Park (Toronto, Ont.)

Accession Number

1986-12-3

Source

Archival Descriptions

Level

Item

Item

3078

Material Format

graphic material

Date

31 May 1981

Physical Description

2 photographs : b&w (1 negative) ; 21 x 26 cm and 10 x 12 cm

Scope and Content

Item is a photograph of Ernst Zundel (pictured centre in a hard hat) with his supporters on the front lawn of his home in Cabbagetown. They are holding signs with various slogans denying the Holocaust.

Notes

Photo by Ben Lechtman.

Name Access

Zundel, Ernst, 1939-2017

Subjects

Demonstrations

Holocaust deniers

Portraits, Group

Places

Carlton Street (Toronto, Ont.)

Source

Archival Descriptions

Level

Item

Item

3076

Material Format

graphic material

Responsibility

Photograph by Ben Lechtman.

Date

31 May 1981

Physical Description

2 photographs : (1 negative) ; b&w ; 21 x 26 cm

Scope and Content

Item is a photograph of anti-Nazi demonstrators in front of neo-Nazi Ernst Zündels home.

Notes

Statement of responsibility: Photograph by Ben Lechtman.

Name Access

Zündel, Ernst, 1939-2017

Subjects

Demonstrations

Neo-Nazis

Places

Carlton Street (Toronto, Ont.)

Source

Archival Descriptions

Level

Item

Item

4408

Material Format

graphic material

Date

1985

Physical Description

1 photograph : b&w

Scope and Content

Item is a photograph of Wally Reinstein, the national Hillel co-ordinator, lighting a candle for Soviet refuseniks at Nathan Phillips Square. A Jewish Student's Union B'nai Brith Hillel banner can be seen in the background.

Notes

Original photos by Graphic Artists, Toronto.

Subjects

Demonstrations

Hanukkah

Refuseniks

Repro Restriction

Copyright may not be held by the Ontario Jewish Archives. It is the responsibility of the researcher to obtain permission prior to use.

Places

Nathan Phillips Square (Toronto, Ont.)

Accession Number

1986-12-3

Source

Archival Descriptions

Level

Item

Item

4407

Material Format

graphic material

Date

1985

Physical Description

1 photograph

Scope and Content

Wally Reinstein, National Hillel Co-ordinator.

Notes

Original photos by Graphic Artists, Toronto.

Subjects

Demonstrations

Hanukkah

Refuseniks

Places

Nathan Phillips Square (Toronto, Ont.)

Accession Number

1986-12-3

Source

Archival Descriptions

Part Of

Canadian Jewish Congress, Ontario Region fonds

Committee for Soviet Jewry series

Protest activities sub-series

Level

Sub-series

Fonds

17

Series

3-5

Material Format

textual record

graphic material

Date

1967-1988

Physical Description

70 cm of textual records

1238 photographs : b&w ; 20 x 25 cm or smaller

Admin History/Bio

Activities undertaken by the Committee for Soviet Jewry in Ontario and its affiliated partner organizations included political lobbying, telephone and letter-writing campaigns, product boycotting, symposiums, public rallies, petitions, marches and demonstrations. Among the highest profile activities were the annual Simcha Torah rallies in October and the annual commemorations of the execution of twenty-four Soviet Jewish writers and intellectuals, which had occurred on August 12, 1952 at Moscow's Liubianka prison. As well as organizing public protest activities, the Committee for Soviet Jewry established, in the 1980s, the Ida Nudel Humanitarian Award which emphasized the humanitarian work of a number of prominent Canadian women. Other non-protest activities included bar/ bat mitzvah twinning, family and prisoner sponsorships, and holiday greetings, all programmes that tied the daily lives of Soviet Jews to their Canadian counterparts.

Scope and Content

Sub-series consists of records documenting the wide range of above-listed protest activities in which the CJC and various affiliated organizations participated. The files include numerous photographs of mass rallies and group demonstrations, planning notes, correspondence, event notices and other promotional materials.

Subjects

Demonstrations

Arrangement

Records of protest activities in this sub-series have been organized chronologically and by event. Indicated date ranges at the file level are of the documents themselves and are not necessarily indicative of the dates of specific events, such as rallies or marches, though such dates are noted in the file description where known.

Source

Archival Descriptions

Part Of

United Jewish Welfare Fund fonds

Toronto Holocaust Museum series

Second Generation sub-series

Level

File

Fonds

67

Series

28-10

File

26

Material Format

textual record

graphic material

Date

1986, 1997

Physical Description

1 folder of textual records

15 photographs: col. ; 10 x 15 cm

Scope and Content

File consists of photographs and flyers from the protests against Nazi war criminals in Canada and correspondence raising awareness of the issue.

Subjects

Demonstrations

Nazis--Canada

War criminals--Canada

Places

Canada

Source

Archival Descriptions

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