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Joseph Klinghofer - 3 Dec. 1985
- Name
- Joseph Klinghofer
- Material Format
- sound recording
- Interview Date
- 3 Dec. 1985
- Source
- Oral Histories
- Name
- Joseph Klinghofer
- Number
- OH 112
- Interview Date
- 3 Dec. 1985
- Quantity
- 1
- Interviewer
- Phyllis Platnick
- Conservation
- Copied August 2003
- Notes
- Second interview
- Use Restrictions
- Copyright is held by the Ontario Jewish Archives. Please contact the archives to obtain permission prior to use.
- Biography
- Dr. Joseph Klinghofer worked for the Polish underground in Warsaw during the Second World War. He owned a German-Polish identity card under the false name of a Roman Catholic, Yadeuz Cyryl Dabrowski and his wife, Gisela Klinghofer had a similar one under a false name. There is also a UN Displaced Persons identity card issued for Joseph Klinghofer in Salzburg, Austria in 1945.
- Dr. Joseph Klinghofer, worked with the Canadian Jewish Congress (CJC) from 1949 to 1972, and was its Educational Director in the 1960s and 1970s. He visited North Bay and other communities to supervise the progress of pupils and the education standards in the community programs as well as recommending candidates to teach the programs.
- The Joseph and Gisela Klinghofer Scholarship in Jewish Studies exists at the University of Toronto and is awarded to a graduate student in the Jewish Studies collaborative program based on academic merit, and also on financial needs.
- Material Format
- sound recording
- Original Format
- Audio cassette
- Copy Format
- Audio cassette
- Source
- Oral Histories