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Eve Gordon - 29 Jan. 2008
- Name
- Eve Gordon
- Material Format
- moving images
- Interview Date
- 29 Jan. 2008
- Source
- Oral Histories
- Name
- Eve Gordon
- Number
- OH 354
- Subject
- Kitchener
- immigration
- scrap business
- Jewish education
- Antisemitism
- Hadassah
- Weiss, Lillian
- synagogue
- Tarraday family
- Budds
- Rabbi Feivel Rosensweig
- Brown, Bessie
- Rabbi Levy
- Interview Date
- 29 Jan. 2008
- Quantity
- 1 mini DV; 1 archival DVD; 1 reference DVD
- Interviewer
- Sharon Gubbay Helfer
- Total Running Time
- 61 mins
- Notes
- Part of Ontario Small Jewish Communities Project.
- Use Restrictions
- Copyright is held by the Ontario Jewish Archives. Please contact the archives to obtain permission prior to use.
- Biography
- Eve Gordon (née Rosen) was born in 1923 in Russia. She came to Canada in 1927 with her sister, three-week-old brother, parents, and paternal grandparents. They settled in Kitchener, Ontario. Her father, Israel, began working for his brother in the scrap metal business before being able to build a large industrial waste business that provided for three families. As a youth, Eve joined Young Judaea and attended Commercial College, where she was a top student.
- Material Format
- moving images
- Original Format
- Mini DV
- Copy Format
- DVD
- Source
- Oral Histories