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Joe and Minna Loewith - 3 Jun. 1984
- Name
- Joe and Minna Loewith
- Material Format
- sound recording
- Interview Date
- 3 Jun. 1984
- Source
- Oral Histories
- Name
- Joe and Minna Loewith
- Number
- OH 37
- OH 38
- Subject
- Agriculture
- Immigrants--Canada
- Interview Date
- 3 Jun. 1984
- Quantity
- 2
- Interviewer
- Morris Silbert
- Total Running Time
- OH 037_001: 31 minutes OH 037_002: 31 minutes OH 038_001 8 minutes
- Conservation
- Copied August 2003
- Use Restrictions
- Copyright is held by the Ontario Jewish Archives. Please contact the archives to obtain permission prior to use.
- Biography
- Joe and Minna Loewith immigrated to Canada in November 1938 from the Sudetenland. After arriving in Canada, they settled on the Wren Farm outside of Hamilton, Ontario, along with their family and other members of the immigration group. They got married in 1942. Afterwards, they bought a farm from their brother-in-law and then lived with their three sons on the farm.
- Material Format
- sound recording
- Language
- English
- Name Access
- Loewith, Joe
- Loewith, Mina
- Silbert, Morris
- Geographic Access
- Hamilton (Ont.)
- Sudetenland (Czech Republic)
- Burlington (Ont.)
- Original Format
- Audio cassette
- Copy Format
- Audio cassette
- Digital file
- Transcript
- G:\Description\Oral Histories\OH 37, OH 38 - Loewith\OH37_001_Log.pdf
- G:\Description\Oral Histories\OH 37, OH 38 - Loewith\OH37_002_Log.pdf
- G:\Description\Oral Histories\OH 37, OH 38 - Loewith\OH38_001_Log.pdf
- Source
- Oral Histories
In this clip, Minna Loewith recalls the events beginning in the summer through the fall of 1938 that led her family to emigrate from Czechoslovakia to Canada.
In this clip, Minna shares some of her earliest recollections of when she and her family arrived in Canada in November 1938.
In this clip, Joe Loewith explains the conditions for Czech immigration to Canada set by the CPR and how they were met.