Rose Brewda (Peterborough, ON)

Physical Description: 1 folder of textual records; 7 photographs : b&w and col. (jpg)

Scope and Content: Accession consists of two photocopied letters exchanged between Rose Brewda and Campbellford District High School in 1984 after her visit with students to speak as a survivor of the Holocaust. Two photocopied newspaper clippings relate to this visit. The scanned photographs include aerial photographs of three of the Brewda's four livestock farms; three were in Peterborough and one in Lindsay. There are two older family portraits with Rose's Zaidie taken in Rumania before the Second World War, one of the Brewda family in the 1950s, and one of Rose dancing with her son Irvin at his bar mitzvah, the first one held in Peterborough's new shul in 1965. Photo identification, L to R:; Formal portrait, ca. 1918: Rose's mother Ita, Zaidie Isaac Hert, father Nathan Rosenberg, older sisters Mindle and baby Rivka; In front of house, ca. 1930: Rose (in polka dots), Mindle, mother Ita, toddler Chai, Zaidie Isaac Hert, brother Mayer, sister Rivka. Sister Zisel was missing.; Brewda family on farm, ca. 1957: Kalman and Rose, children Ethyl, Joseph and Irvin.