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Bessie Frisch
- Accession Number
- 2022-5-12
- Source
- Archival Accessions
- Accession Number
- 2022-5-12
- Material Format
- textual record
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- 30 cm of textual records
- 10 photographs : b&w and col. ; 21 x 26 cm or smaller
- Date
- 1939-1987
- Scope and Content
- Accession consists of materials documenting the Hebrew Weston Sanitarium and Service Club. Included are meeting lists, minutes, financial statements, photographs, and invitations for charitable luncheon and tea events. Other organizations documented in the records include: Federation of Jewish Women's Organizations; Israel Lung and Tuberulosis League; Mount Sinai Women's Auxilliary; Shaare Zedek Hospital Foundation; and Shaarei Shomayim.
- Administrative History
- Bessie Frisch was the president of the Hebrew Weston Sanitarium Club between 1967-1971; 1974-1976; and co-president with Ivy Freiman in 1980-1982. She was married to Harry Frish and had one daughter. Rhoda.
- HWSC was founded in 1928 and became Hebrew Weston Charitable Services in 1967. It was a volunteer group that was formed to provide aid to the Jewish patients at the Toronto Hospital for Consulptives (more commonly known as the Weston Sanitorium), now West Park Healthcare Centre. Meals on Wheels was funded in part by HWCS in 1965 and was in full operation by 1966.
- Subjects
- Women
- Medical care
- Source
- Archival Accessions