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Level

Item

Item

3736

Material Format

graphic material

Date

[between 1940 and 1945]

Physical Description

1 photograph : b&w ; 10 x 7 cm

Scope and Content

This item is a photograph of a priest and another individual standing in front of the Christian alter in the Jlag VIII Z prisoner-of-war camp. Charles Grant had the alter built for the Russian and Polish prisoners.

Subjects

Priests

Prisoners of war

Repro Restriction

Copyright is in the public domain and permission for use is not required. Please credit the Ontario Jewish Archives as the source of the photograph.

Accession Number

1981-2-8

Source

Archival Descriptions

Level

Item

Item

3735

Material Format

graphic material

Date

[between 1940 and 1945]

Physical Description

1 photograph : b&w ; 10 x 7 cm

Scope and Content

This item is a photograph of a priest worshipping in the Jlag VIII Z prisoner-of-war camp. Charles Grant had the alter built for the Russian and Polish prisoners.

Subjects

Priests

Prisoners of war

Repro Restriction

Copyright is in the public domain and permission for use is not required. Please credit the Ontario Jewish Archives as the source of the photograph.

Accession Number

1981-2-8

Source

Archival Descriptions

Level

Item

Item

3737

Material Format

graphic material

Date

[between 1940 and 1945]

Physical Description

1 photograph : b&w ; 10 x 7 cm

Scope and Content

This item is a photograph of a priest standing in front of the Christian alter in the Jlag VIII Z prisoner-of-war camp. Behind him is a room full of praying men. Charles Grant had the alter built for the Russian and Polish prisoners.

Subjects

Priests

Prisoners of war

Repro Restriction

Copyright is in the public domain and permission for use is not required. Please credit the Ontario Jewish Archives as the source of the photograph.

Accession Number

1981-2-8

Source

Archival Descriptions

Level

Item

Item

3739

Material Format

graphic material

Date

[between 1940 and 1945]

Physical Description

1 photograph : b&w ; 10 x 7 cm

Scope and Content

This item is a photograph of a group of prisoners and guards praying in a room at the Jlag VIII Z prisoner-of-war camp. Charles Grant had the Christian alter made for the Russian and Polish prisoners.

Subjects

Prisoners of war

Repro Restriction

Copyright is in the public domain and permission for use is not required. Please credit the Ontario Jewish Archives as the source of the photograph.

Accession Number

1981-2-8

Source

Archival Descriptions

Level

Item

Item

3738

Material Format

graphic material

Date

[between 1940 and 1945]

Physical Description

1 photograph : b&w ; 10 x 7 cm

Scope and Content

This item is a photograph of a group Red Cross volunteers with prisoners from the Jlag VIII Z prisoner-of-war camp, standing on a street.

Subjects

Prisoners of war

Repro Restriction

Copyright is in the public domain and permission for use is not required. Please credit the Ontario Jewish Archives as the source of the photograph.

Accession Number

1981-2-8

Source

Archival Descriptions

Level

Item

Item

3740

Material Format

graphic material

Date

[between 1940 and 1945]

Physical Description

1 photograph : b&w ; 10 x 7 cm

Scope and Content

This item is a photograph of Charles Grant standing between two men at the prisoner-of-war camp Jlag VIII Z.

Subjects

Prisoners of war

Repro Restriction

Copyright is in the public domain and permission for use is not required. Please credit the Ontario Jewish Archives as the source of the photograph.

Accession Number

1981-2-8

Source

Archival Descriptions

Level

Item

Item

3744

Material Format

graphic material

Date

[between 1940 and 1945]

Physical Description

1 photograph : b&w ; 10 x 7 cm

Scope and Content

This item is a photograph of a group of soldiers at the prisoner-of-war camp Jlag VIII Z.

Repro Restriction

Copyright is in the public domain and permission for use is not required. Please credit the Ontario Jewish Archives as the source of the photograph.

Accession Number

1981-2-8

Source

Archival Descriptions

Level

Item

Item

3741

Material Format

graphic material

Date

[between 1940 and 1945]

Physical Description

2 photographs : b&w ; 10 x 7 cm

Scope and Content

This item is an original and copy photograph of four members of the Red Cross at the prisoner-of-war camp Jlag VIII Z.

Repro Restriction

Copyright is in the public domain and permission for use is not required. Please credit the Ontario Jewish Archives as the source of the photograph.

Accession Number

1981-2-8

Source

Archival Descriptions

Level

Item

Item

3742

Material Format

graphic material

Date

[between 1940 and 1945]

Physical Description

1 photograph : b&w ; 10 x 7 cm

Scope and Content

This item is a photograph of a group of Red Cross volunteers at the prisoner-of-war camp Jlag VIII Z.

Repro Restriction

Copyright is in the public domain and permission for use is not required. Please credit the Ontario Jewish Archives as the source of the photograph.

Accession Number

1981-2-8

Source

Archival Descriptions

Level

Item

Item

3743

Material Format

graphic material

Date

[between 1940 and 1945]

Physical Description

1 photograph : b&w ; 10 x 7 cm

Scope and Content

This item is a photograph of a group of Red Cross volunteers at the prisoner-of-war camp Jlag VIII Z.

Repro Restriction

Copyright is in the public domain and permission for use is not required. Please credit the Ontario Jewish Archives as the source of the photograph.

Accession Number

1981-2-8

Source

Archival Descriptions

Level

Item

Item

3745

Material Format

graphic material

Date

[between 1940 and 1945]

Physical Description

2 photographs : b&w ; 10 x 7 cm

Scope and Content

This item is an original and copy photograph of a group of Red Cross volunteers standing on a road at the prisoner-of-war camp Jlag VIII Z.

Repro Restriction

Copyright is in the public domain and permission for use is not required. Please credit the Ontario Jewish Archives as the source of the photograph.

Accession Number

1981-2-8

Source

Archival Descriptions

Level

Item

Item

3746

Material Format

graphic material

Date

[between 1940 and 1945]

Physical Description

2 photographs : b&w ; 10 x 7 cm

Scope and Content

This item is an original and copy photograph of a group of Red Cross volunteers with some prisoners of the prisoner-of-war camp Jlag VIII Z.

Repro Restriction

Copyright is in the public domain and permission for use is not required. Please credit the Ontario Jewish Archives as the source of the photograph.

Accession Number

1981-2-8

Source

Archival Descriptions

Passenger Names

Bayewsky, Z., Z.

Page Number

463

Date Range

June 6, 1911 to January 19, 1915

Photographer

Harvey and Adena Glasner

Source

Rotenberg Ledger

Part Of

Henry Cassel fonds

Level

Fonds

Fonds

93

Material Format

textual record

graphic material

Date

[ca. 1900]-2000, predominant 1929-1947

Physical Description

8 cm of textual records

3 albums (ca. 210 photographs)

2 photographs

Admin History/Bio

Heinz Kassel (1912-2009) (later changed to Henry Cassel) was a German refugee during the Second World War who was classified as an enemy alien by the British government. He spent two years in an internment camp for prisoners of war (POWs) in Quebec. He later became a naturalized Canadian citizen and enlisted in the Canadian military.

Heinz was born on October 25, 1912 in Aschaffenburg, Germany to Adolf and Olga Kassel. Adolf owned a successful banking business which he had inherited from his father. The family resided above the bank and lived a comfortable life during these early years. They moved to Frankfurt around 1920 after Adolf sold his business to buy a partnership in a bank there.

Heinz’s parents had hoped that he would one day become a corporate lawyer. In 1931, in preparation for his future career, he began studying law and economics at Frankfurt University. He enjoyed his initial university years. However, after Hitler’s rise to power in 1933, he became alarmed when his non-Jewish university friends began ignoring him and when the German government passed laws forbidding Jews from practicing law in court. Determined to leave Germany and seek out a better life elsewhere, he begged his parents to immigrate with him to the United States. They refused to go, unwilling to leave behind the life they had worked so hard to build. In accordance with his parents’ wishes, Heinz relocated to nearby Italy instead of the US in 1934. He learned Italian and eventually secured a job with an engineering firm.

Sensing that the political climate in Italy was becoming dangerous for Jewish people, Heinz applied for immigration to the US in early 1939. Eager to leave Italy, he relocated to London to await the approval of his US visa. He left just in time: Britain declared war on Germany less than a week after his arrival. His parents, in turn, managed to escape to Holland. Soon after Britain’s declaration, all immigrants from enemy countries were considered enemy aliens and suspected of being spies.

On May 12, 1940, the British military arrested Heinz and interned him with other German immigrants and POWs. He believed his detainment was only a precautionary measure and that he would be cleared within a few days. However, the British shipped him to the Isle of Man where he remained for several months. Fearing an invasion, the British shipped 3,000 of the POWs, including Kassel, to Quebec, where he was briefly interned at a POW camp set up at the Plains of Abraham. In October 1940, he was moved with 736 other refugees to an abandoned railway yard (later known as “Camp N”) in Newington, near Sherbrooke, Quebec. While there, he confronted a great deal of antisemitism from the guards.

While he was interned in Quebec, the Canadian Jewish Congress (CJC) interviewed him and other Jewish prisoners in order to lobby for their release. Realizing that the internees were not POWs, the Canadian government declared the camp a refugee camp in 1941. By October 1942, the CJC was successful in helping Heinz secure employment with Benjamin Pape & Company in Toronto.

Heinz met Reta Freeman in Toronto and they were married in November 1944. Reta was born and raised in Toronto. After their nuptials, they were both briefly classified as enemy aliens and had to report to the RCMP on a regular basis. Shortly thereafter, Heinz enlisted in the Royal Canadian Army and was sent to basic training in Manitoba. On January 21, 1946 he was granted landed immigrant status, and in April of that year, he became a citizen.

After the war, Heinz learned that his parents as well as other relatives had been transported to concentration camps and had not survived. He was certainly one of the few fortunate ones to leave the country, despite the circumstances of his removal. He resented being interned for so long, but did not blame the British for rounding him up with other Germans based on their initial fears regarding enemy aliens. His feelings about Canada's treatment of him during that time, however, were not as sympathetic.

The couple lived their lives in Toronto. They first resided at 2346 Yonge Street. Heinz legally changed his name to Henry Cassel. He worked as an accountant and later was a controller for the United Jewish Welfare Fund. The couple had two children: Andrew (b. 1947) and Richard (b. 1951). Reta passed away in August 1962 and Henry later remarried Esther Cassel. He passed away at the age of 96 on February 15, 2009.

Custodial History

Records were created and accumulated by Henry Cassel. His sons donated them to the OJA after his death.

Scope and Content

Fonds consists of records documenting the life of Henry Cassel, particularly his attempt to emigrate from Europe prior to the Second World War and his internment in Canada as a German prisoner of war (POW). Included is personal correspondence between Cassel and his parents; correspondence written by Cassel to potential employers and Canadian Jewish agencies; legal documents and certificates, such as Cassel's birth certificate and passport; family photo albums documenting the family and lives of Henry Cassel and his wife Reta; Cassel's autobiography; a journal and notebook written by Cassel during his internment; and, other internment records, such as government forms and poems and songs written by internees. Also included are newspaper clippings, articles, financial statements, genealogical research, and antisemitic ephemera collected by Cassel. Of particular note are newsletters that were produced during the 1990s by ex-internees who had kept in touch over the years. Records are arranged into 16 files.

Notes

Textual records in the fonds were reduced from ca. 20 cm to 8 cm. Please see accession record for further details about the culled material.

Associated material notes: for related records at other archives, please see: the UJRA case files at the National CJC Archive in Montreal and the holdings at Library and Archives Canada (such as, the Directorate of Internment Operations series in the Department of National Defense fonds R112-0-2-E)

Name Access

Cassel, Henry, 1912-2009

Subjects

Europe--Emigration and immigration

Prisoners of war

Access Restriction

Partially closed. Researchers must receive permission from the OJA Director prior to accessing some of the records.

Related Material

See: Canadian Jewish Congress case files in RG 282 and accession #2005-10-1.

Creator

Cassel, Henry, 1912-2009

Accession Number

2010-4-5

Source

Archival Descriptions

Part Of

Canadian Jewish Congress, Ontario Region fonds

Community Relations Committee series

Anti-Semitism Cases sub-series

Level

File

Fonds

17

Series

5-3

File

207

Material Format

textual record

Date

1978

Physical Description

1 folder of textual records

Scope and Content

File consists of correspondence and a newspaper clipping regarding the trial of Mr. Scallen for posing as a priest. In the course of the trial, his antisemitic beliefs also were disclosed.

Notes

Previously processed and cited as part of MG8 S.

Name Access

Scallen, Dennis

Subjects

Priests

Trials

Source

Archival Descriptions

Part Of

Canadian Jewish Congress, Ontario Region fonds

Community Relations Committee series

Publications, Speeches, Press Releases and Reports sub-series

Level

File

Fonds

17

Series

5-2

File

97

Material Format

textual record

Date

1974

Physical Description

1 folder of textual records

Scope and Content

File consists of letters and documents regarding the treatment of Israeli POW's in Syria

Notes

Previously processed and cited as part of MG8 S.

Source

Archival Descriptions

Accession Number

1992-8-5

Material Format

textual record

graphic material

object

Physical Description

1 folder of textual records

6 photographs : b&w (3 negatives) ; 11 x 16 cm on matte 18 x 23 cm or smaller

1 plaque : metal, mounted in frame, gold and black ; frame measures 47 x 62 cm.

Date

1912-[ca. 1940]

Scope and Content

Accession consists of photographs of the Socol Hebrew-Yiddish School (a class picture and a school picnic in High park), and a photo of a dentist Dr. Robert Seidenberg whose mother brought Mr. Socol to Toronto. As well there is Mr. Socol's diary (1912) with a translation from Yiddish to English by Alex Korn, and a letter concerning the proposed Beyt Sefer T'Khiya. Finally, accession includes a Socol Hebrew and Yiddish School plaque. It has a gold background embossed with a pattern of leaves. There is black Yiddish lettering mounted on, and set in a glass frame with a black metal border. It reads: "Z. Socol Hebrew-Yiddishe Shule" .

Descriptive Notes

Identification is provided for the photographs

Source

Archival Accessions

Part Of

Zionist Organization of Canada fonds

Central Region sous-fonds

Subject files series

Level

File

Fonds

28-1

Series

7

File

347

Material Format

textual record

Date

1963-1969

Physical Description

1 folder of textual records

Scope and Content

The file consists of general correspondence.

Source

Archival Descriptions

Part Of

Zionist Organization of Canada fonds

Subject files series

Level

File

Fonds

28

Series

5

File

171

Material Format

textual record

Date

1970-1976

Physical Description

1 folder of textual records

Scope and Content

The file consists of correspondence and a letter of appraisal for a project to photograph, record and document items of interest to Canadians visiting foreign lands.

Source

Archival Descriptions

Passenger Names

Solinc, Z.

Page Number

284

Date Range

June 6, 1911 to January 19, 1915

Photographer

Harvey and Adena Glasner

Source

Rotenberg Ledger

Passenger Names

Wagman, Z.

Page Number

426

Date Range

June 6, 1911 to January 19, 1915

Photographer

Harvey and Adena Glasner

Source

Rotenberg Ledger

Level

Item

Item

538

Material Format

graphic material

Date

1943

Physical Description

2 photographs : b&w (1 negative) ; 18 x 13 cm and 4 x 5 cm)

Scope and Content

Item is a copy photograph of Kiwa Torem at Camp Borden, prior to going overseas, 1943.

Name Access

Canadian Forces Base Borden (Ont.)

Torem, Kiwa

Subjects

Military bases

World War, 1939-1945

Repro Restriction

Copyright is in the public domain and permission for use is not required. Please credit the Ontario Jewish Archives as the source of the photograph.

Places

Ontario

Accession Number

Acquired June 22, 1975.

Source

Archival Descriptions

Level

Item

Item

537

Material Format

graphic material

Date

1943

Physical Description

2 photographs : b&w (1 negative); 13 x 18 cm and 4 x 5 cm

Scope and Content

Item is a copy photograph of Kiwa Torem at Camp Borden, Military W.W. II, 1943.

Name Access

Canadian Forces Base Borden (Ont.)

Torem, Kiwa

Subjects

Military bases

World War, 1939-1945

Repro Restriction

Copyright is in the public domain and permission for use is not required. Please credit the Ontario Jewish Archives as the source of the photograph.

Places

Ontario

Accession Number

Acquired June 22, 1975.

Source

Archival Descriptions

Part Of

Board of Jewish Education fonds

Executive director series

Teacher files sub-series

Level

File

Fonds

48

Series

2-4

File

469

Material Format

textual record

Date

1952-1953

Physical Description

1 folder of textual records

Access Restriction

Closed. Researchers must receive permission from the OJA Director prior to accessing the records

Source

Archival Descriptions

Passenger Names

Govah, V. & Z.

Page Number

365

Date Range

June 6, 1911 to January 19, 1915

Photographer

Harvey and Adena Glasner

Source

Rotenberg Ledger

Passenger Names

Listgarten, Y. & Z.

Page Number

323

Date Range

June 6, 1911 to January 19, 1915

Photographer

Harvey and Adena Glasner

Source

Rotenberg Ledger

Passenger Names

Teperman, Z., (Yiddis)

Page Number

663

Date Range

June 6, 1911 to January 19, 1915

Photographer

Harvey and Adena Glasner

Source

Rotenberg Ledger

Passenger Names

Zigelstein, I. & Z.

Page Number

436

Date Range

June 6, 1911 to January 19, 1915

Photographer

Harvey and Adena Glasner

Source

Rotenberg Ledger

Accession Number

2008-10-7

Material Format

textual record

graphic material

moving images

Physical Description

28 cm of textual records

78 photographs : 24 x 19 cm or smaller

3 videocassetttes

Date

1962-2003

Scope and Content

Accession consists of records documenting the education and professional life of Rabbi Domb. The photos are mostly of the Rabbi, his family, friends and congregational school students. Also included are files containing many of his speeches and sermons, his marriage register, his personal educational and certification records, correspondence and notes concerning his involvement with the B’nai Shalom North Congregation, and VHS videocassettes of a singing audition and a wedding at which he officiated. The accession also includes records containing many posthumous tributes to his life and work, as well as a DVD, brief obituary and personal history by his nephew, Alan Domb, donor of these records.

Custodial History

Donor was Rabbi's nephew.

Administrative History

Solomon Z. Domb was born in Israel on December 2, 1952. He was the fourth and youngest son of Polish Holocaust survivors Joseph and Golda Domb. The family immigrated to Toronto, Canada in 1960, where Solomon received his education at Yeshiva Day School Chaim Talmud Torah. His education continued at the Ner Israel Yeshiva and the Bais Medrash L’Rabonim in Brooklyn, New York. He also studied cantorial singing under famed cantor David Kusevitsky. After graduation as a rabbi in May1970 Rabbi Domb began his career at the House of Jacob in Calgary, Alberta. He then became Rabbi and Chazzan of Beth Isiah Congregation in Guelph and later at Toronto’s Beth Torah Congregation. In 1982 Rabbi Domb founded the B’nai Shalom North Congregation, B’nai Shalom Hebrew School, and B’nai Shalom Day Nursery. He was also a founder of the Vaughan Neighbourhood Support Centre. Rabbi Domb died on October 5, 2003.

Descriptive Notes

Language Note: Many of the speech and semon notes are in Hebrew or Yiddish.

Source

Archival Accessions

Part Of

Canadian Jewish Congress, Ontario Region fonds

Canadian Overseas Garment Commission series

Discharge records sub-series

Level

File

Fonds

17

Series

47-8

File

12

Material Format

textual record

Date

1950

Physical Description

1 folder of textual records

Scope and Content

File consists of discharge certificates issued by the Department of Labour to immigrant tailors upon completion of their one-year contract with the Canadian Overseas Garment Commission.

Source

Archival Descriptions

Part Of

Canadian Jewish Congress, Ontario Region fonds

Community Relations Committee series

Anti-Semitism Cases sub-series

Level

File

Fonds

17

Series

5-3

File

182

Material Format

textual record

Date

1938

Physical Description

1 folder of textual records

Scope and Content

File consists of correspondence regarding antisemitic statements in a book (Droit public de l'Église) written by L.A. Paquet.

Notes

Previously processed and cited as part of MG8 S.

Name Access

Paquet, Louis Adolphe, 1859-1942

Subjects

Christianity and antisemitism

Priests

Theologians

Source

Archival Descriptions

Accession Number

2004-5-37

Material Format

graphic material

Physical Description

36 photographs : b&w and hand col. (12 negatives) ; 13 x 18 cm or smaller

Date

1938-1943

Scope and Content

Accession consists of photographs taken at Camp Balfour Manor on Morrison Lake in Muskoka, Ontario and Camp Yungvelt in Pickering, Ontario. Scenes include a group of young people on the steps of a building, a Shabbat service, a flag lowering ceremony, boxing lessons, an arts and crafts class, and a photograph of Hyman Riegelhaupt at Camp Yungvelt.

Subjects

Jewish camps

Name Access

Balfour Manor Camp

Camp Yungvelt

Places

Muskoka (Ont. : District municipality)

Pickering (Ont.)

Source

Archival Accessions

Part Of

Canadian Jewish Congress, Ontario Region fonds

Canadian Overseas Garment Commission series

Employee case files sub-series

Level

File

Fonds

17

Series

47-4

File

17

Material Format

textual record

Date

1948-1950

Physical Description

1 folder of textual records

Access Restriction

Partially closed. Researchers must receive permission from the OJA Director prior to accessing some of the records.

Source

Archival Descriptions

Part Of

Canadian Jewish Congress, Ontario Region fonds

Canadian Overseas Garment Commission series

Employee worker cards sub-series

Level

File

Fonds

17

Series

47-9

File

4

Material Format

textual record

Date

1948-1949

Physical Description

1 folder of textual records

Scope and Content

File consists of employee worker cards documenting employee name, arrival date, trade, employer name and address, worker name, date of birth, nationality, gender, marital status, religion, children, employee place of residence, and sponsor name. These cards were held by the Commission.

Access Restriction

Closed. Researchers must receive permission from the OJA Director prior to accessing the records.

Source

Archival Descriptions

Part Of

Canadian Jewish Congress, Ontario Region fonds

Canadian Overseas Garment Commission series

Employee worker cards, sub-series

Level

File

Fonds

17

Series

47-9

File

7

Material Format

textual record

Date

1948-1949

Physical Description

1 folder of textual records

Scope and Content

File consists of employee worker cards documenting employee name, arrival date, trade, employer name and address, worker name, date of birth, nationality, gender, marital status, religion, children, employee place of residence, and sponsor name. These cards were held by the Commission.

Access Restriction

Closed. Researchers must receive permission from the OJA Director prior to accessing the records.

Source

Archival Descriptions

Part Of

Jewish Community Centre of Toronto fonds

Jewish Community Centre Archives Committee series

Photograph collection sub-series

Level

Item

Fonds

61

Series

2-2

File

49

Item

2

Material Format

graphic material

Date

1980

Physical Description

1 photograph : col. ; 11 x 15 cm

Scope and Content

Item is a photograph of a group of young boys playing outside in the snow at the northern branch of the Y.M.-Y.W.H.A.

Repro Restriction

Copyright is held by the Ontario Jewish Archives. Please contact the Archives to obtain permission prior to use.

Source

Archival Descriptions

Part Of

Cowan family fonds

Level

Item

Fonds

102

File

90

Item

1

Material Format

graphic material

Date

1965

Physical Description

1 photograph : b&w ; 21 x 26 cm

Scope and Content

Item is a photograph of CIT counsellor girls taken in 1965. Trudy Cowan is one of the girls photographed. Seated in a plaid shirt in the front row is Renee Barsh.

Notes

Photograph is by Willy Lobel.

Name Access

Barsh, Renee

Subjects

Camps

Places

Huntsville (Ont.)

Source

Archival Descriptions

Part Of

Cowan family fonds

Level

Item

Fonds

102

File

90

Item

2

Material Format

graphic material

Date

1965

Physical Description

1 photograph : b&w ; 36 x 29 cm

Scope and Content

Item is a photograph of CIT counsellors taken in 1965. Trudy Cowan is one of the girls photographed. Identified in the photo; Adrienne Haas, Valerie Bricks, Judy Resnick, Stephen Kay, Susan Fisher, Marlene Rosenfeld, Bailey Davidson, Ellie Chitel, Trudy Cowan, Denise London, Gail Cohen, Candy Burstein, Lynn Gordon, Steven Green, Shelley Freeman, Laurie Lubin, Leslie Goldenberg, Donna Lebo, Susan Applebaum, Risa Stein, Jay Schwartz, Carolyn Wainberg, Murray Singer and Zevi Shainhouse.

Notes

Photograph is by Willy Lobel.

Name Access

Barsh, Renee

Subjects

Camps

Places

Huntsville (Ont.)

Source

Archival Descriptions

Accession Number

2016-10-1

Material Format

textual record

Physical Description

2 folders of textual records

Date

1948-1951

Scope and Content

Accession consists of counter cheques, cancelled cheques, Statements of Account, deposit slips, promissory notes (1948-1950), a 1948 realty tax bill, an invoice from E. Hoffman Machinery Supply and letter of assignment of lien. Also included is a 1951 Camp Kvutza season price fees, a letter to parents, and a promotional pamphlet.

Administrative History

Camp Kvutza was a summer camp for children and adults and was promoted as the summer home of the Labour Zionist Movement. It was situated in Lowbanks, Ontario on the shores of Lake Erie. The children's program (ages 7-16) included swimming, baseball, basketball, ping-pong, arts and crafts, sabbath programs, Hebrew and Yiddish instruction, and Israeli songs and dances. The donor's father was associated with the camp.

Subjects

Camps

Labor Zionism

Name Access

Camp Kvutza (Ont.)

Source

Archival Accessions

Accession Number

2018-9-5

Material Format

graphic material

Physical Description

1 photograph : sepia ; 20 x 90 cm

Date

1942

Scope and Content

Item is a panoramic group portrait of Camp Winnebagoe campers taken in 1942. Identified are brother and sister Lyle Steinberg (third row up, the sixth boy from the right) and Shiela Steinberg (seated in the front row, second from the left). Later—possibly in 1947—the family changed its name to Stanway.

Custodial History

Margot Freedman, the daughter of Lyle Stanway (né Steinberg), one of the children identified in the portrait, donated the photograph to the Ontario Jewish Archives, Blankenstein Family Heritage Centre.

Use Conditions

Copyright is in the public domain and permission for use is not required. Please credit the Ontario Jewish Archives as the source of the photograph.

Subjects

Camps

Portraits, Group

Name Access

Camp Winnebagoe

Places

Muskoka (Ont. : District municipality)

Source

Archival Accessions

Accession Number

2003-10-4

Material Format

moving images

Physical Description

1 videocassette : b&w, si., VHS

Date

1943

Scope and Content

Accession consists of one VHS videocassette copy of an 8mm silent film that was taken by Hy Rossman of campers at Camp Tamarack in 1943. The film includes scenes of the boys engaged in activities at camp as well as "mess hall" gatherings, training sessions and drills

Administrative History

Hy Rossman was the father of one of the campers. The donor, Dr. Martin Wolfish, was a friend of his son and was a camper in 1943 as well.

Descriptive Notes

A clip of the film can be viewed at: //www.youtube.com/embed/eFGNoca4vkw

Subjects

Camps

Children

Name Access

Camp Tamarack

Rossman, Hy

Places

Bracebridge, Ont.

Source

Archival Accessions

Part Of

William Stern fonds

Camp photographs series

Level

Item

Fonds

33

Series

5

Item

4

Material Format

graphic material

Date

[195-]

Physical Description

1 photograph : b&w ; 8 x 10 cm

Scope and Content

This item is a photograph of a group of young campers seated in a canoe and standing near the shore of a lake. The boys are all holding fishing rods. The camp is probably Camp Northland, where Bill worked as a counselor.

Repro Restriction

Copyright is held by the Ontario Jewish Archives. Please contact the Archives to obtain permission prior to use.

Accession Number

2004-5-96

Source

Archival Descriptions

Part Of

William Stern fonds

Camp photographs series

Level

Item

Fonds

33

Series

5

Item

8

Material Format

graphic material

Date

1962

Physical Description

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

Scope and Content

This item is a photograph of a group of young campers seated on the ground in a country setting, with camp counselors and staff people.

Repro Restriction

Copyright is held by the Ontario Jewish Archives. Please contact the Archives to obtain permission prior to use.

Accession Number

2004-5-96

Source

Archival Descriptions

Part Of

William Stern fonds

Camp photographs series

Level

Item

Fonds

33

Series

5

Item

5

Material Format

graphic material

Date

1956

Physical Description

2 photographs : b&w (1 negative) ; 10 x 12 cm and 9 x 12 cm

Scope and Content

This item is a photograph of a group of young boys hiking through a grass field that leads into a wooded area. At the front and rear of the line are two older men.

Repro Restriction

Copyright is held by the Ontario Jewish Archives. Please contact the Archives to obtain permission prior to use.

Accession Number

2004-5-96

Source

Archival Descriptions

Part Of

William Stern fonds

Camp photographs series

Level

Series

Fonds

33

Series

5

Material Format

graphic material

Date

1940-1962

Physical Description

13 photographs : b&w (6 negatives) ; 21 x 26 or smaller

Scope and Content

This series consists of photographs of various Jewish camps in Ontario. Bill Stern either worked as a counselor at the camps, or had some affiliation through his work with the Hamilton Jewish Community Centre and the Hamilton Council of Jewish Organizations.

The photographs have been arranged chronologically and described at the item level.

Accession Number

1980-2-1

2004-5-96

2006-2-8

Source

Archival Descriptions

Part Of

Dora Till fonds

Mothers' and Babes' Summer Rest Home Association series

Programming and events sub-series

Level

File

Fonds

52

Series

1-5

File

1

Material Format

textual record

Date

[192-]-[193-], 1953

Physical Description

1 folder of textual records

1 poster

Scope and Content

Of particular interest in this file is a cardboard poster outlining the rest home's schedule and routine, written in Yiddish.

Source

Archival Descriptions

Part Of

Jewish Community Centre of Toronto fonds

Executive director series

Subject files sub-series

Level

File

Fonds

61

Series

1-1

File

28

Material Format

textual record

Date

1954-1955

Physical Description

2 cm of textual records

Admin History/Bio

Camp Fundale was a day camp for children between the ages of eight and thirteen. It was overseen by the Jewish Camp Council and operated out of the Y.M.-Y.W.H.A. at Spadina Avenue and Bloor Street.

Scope and Content

This file contains program material, counselor training material, an end of season report and correspondence relating to the operation of Camp Fundale.

Accession Number

2004-5-2

Source

Archival Descriptions

Part Of

Jewish Community Centre of Toronto fonds

Executive director series

Subject files sub-series

Level

File

Fonds

61

Series

1-1

File

29

Material Format

textual record

graphic material

Date

1953-1960

Physical Description

2 cm of textual records

21 photographs : b&w ; 13 x 18 cm

Admin History/Bio

Camp Playtyme was a day camp for children aged six and seven. It was run by the Jewish Camp Council and operated out of the Y.M.-Y.W.H.A. at Spadina Avenue and Bloor Street.

Scope and Content

This file contains program material, counselor training material, membership reports, financial records, a parent's guide and photographs from 1953-4 of the children partaking in the various camp activities.

Repro Restriction

Copyright is held by the Ontario Jewish Archives. Please contact the Archives to obtain permission prior to use.

Accession Number

2004-5-2

Source

Archival Descriptions

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Part Of

Jewish Community Centre of Toronto fonds

Executive director series

Subject files sub-series

Level

File

Fonds

61

Series

1-1

File

30

Material Format

textual record

graphic material

Date

1953-1958

Physical Description

1 cm of textual records

4 photographs : b&w ; 21 x 26 cm

Admin History/Bio

Camp Winterland was a winter day camp for children aged six to ten, sponsored by the Y.M.-Y.W.H.A. It ran through the Christmas holidays at the Y.M.-Y.W.H.A. at Spadina Avenue and Bloor Street.

Scope and Content

This file contains program material, reports, financial material and four photographs of children partaking in craft activities and eating lunch at Camp Winterland.

Accession Number

2004-5-2

Source

Archival Descriptions

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Part Of

Jewish Community Centre of Toronto fonds

Jewish Community Centre Archives Committee series

Photograph collection sub-series

Level

File

Fonds

61

Series

2-2

File

46

Material Format

graphic material

Date

1976

Physical Description

3 photographs : col. ; 9 x 13 cm

Scope and Content

This file consists of two photographs taken at a Camp Caravan southern trip that shows several people riding horses with mountains in the background and one photograph of several people aboard a river houseboat on a Camp Caravan houseboat trip.

Source

Archival Descriptions