Orch (Orzech) Family

Physical Description: 1 folder of textual records; 5 photographs : b&w ; 21 x 25 cm

Scope and Content: Accession consists of the Recollections of Tzine Orzech (Sidney Orch) in Yiddish , three of his notebooks (in Yiddish), two business cards for Araham Zak, Buenos Aires, correspondence from the Jewish Public Library of Toronto thanking S. Orch for monetary and book donations (1974), and an information notice about the unveiling for S. Orch's wife in Toronto (1971). There are publications " 20 Songs of the Ghettos (1963), "The Warsaw Ghetto in Pictures- Illustrated Catalogue" published by the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research (1970), and an issue of the Yiddish periodical "Kultur un Lebn" (1975). Photographs include a ca. 1932 reprint of a group photo of members of a Bakers Union in Czestochowa, Poland taken fifteen years previously to honour their president C. Orzech, a photo of the 40th Labour Day celebration of the Bakery and Confectionery Workers international Union of America (1952), and a composite of the same organization's members (1952) including S. Orch and S. Ladowsky. Also included are The Toronto Alliance Review (1975) and a program for the Farband Labor Zionist Order 25th Anniversary Banquet and Dance (1969).

Administrative History: The uncle of Tzine Orzech (Sidney Orch) was Maurycy Orzech, a Warsaw journalist and Bund leader.

Descriptive Notes: Associated material note: The 'Orzech" file in the bund archives at YIVO contains material pertaining to Maurycy with several items relating to Tzine (Sidney).