- Part Of
- United Jewish Welfare Fund fonds
- Annual Campaign series
- Walk with Israel sub-series
- Walk for Israel 1981 sub-sub-series
- Level
- Sub-sub-series
- Fonds
- 67
- Series
- 17-1-7
- Material Format
- graphic material
- object
- Date
- 1981
- Physical Description
- 11 photographs (negatives) : 6 x 6 cm
- 1 button
- Admin History/Bio
- The 1981 Walk for Israel took place on Sunday, 3 May. Its theme was "Walk for the Youth of Israel," because monies raised went to build a sports complex for the children of Mazkeret Batya. Advertised highlights of the 1981 walk included Al Waxman, a celebrity photo booth, the Blue Jays bird, Mr. Peanut, and the Toronto Argos cheerleaders. The walk ended with a celebration of the northern JCC's (BJCC's) twentieth anniversary. As an adjunct fundraiser, a fiftteen-hour danceathon was held at the BJCC, where participants could dance from 11 p.m. to 2 p.m. the next day. The danceathon was organized by Ruth Lootsteen and Jack Samuel.
- Access Restriction
- Records in off-site storage; advance notice required to view.
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Part Of
- United Jewish Welfare Fund fonds
- Toronto Holocaust Museum series
- Yom Hashoah sub-series
- Level
- File
- Fonds
- 67
- Series
- 28-14
- File
- 14
- Material Format
- textual record
- graphic material
- Date
- 1980-1981
- Physical Description
- 1 folder of textual records
- 68 photographs : b & w (2 contact sheets) ; 35 mm.
- Scope and Content
- File consists of press releases, programmes, performance materials, photographs, clippings, and correspondence from the 1981 Yom Hashoah commemoration of the Holocaust Education Centre.
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Name
- Ethel Abramsky
- Material Format
- sound recording
- Interview Date
- 8 Nov. 1981
- Source
- Oral Histories
- Name
- Ethel Abramsky
- Number
- OH 42
- Subject
- World War, 1939-1945
- Women
- International Order Daughters of the Empire (IODE)
- Interview Date
- 8 Nov. 1981
- Quantity
- 2 cassettes (1 copy)
- 1 CD
- 4 WAV files
- Interviewer
- M. Feldman
- Total Running Time
- 001: 30.53 minutes
002: 30.50 minutes
003: 31.25 minutes
004: 30.42 minutes
- Conservation
- Copied to cassette in August 2003.
- Digitized in January 2015.
- Notes
- Sound quality poor in many sections.
- Use Restrictions
- Conditional access. Researchers must receive permission from the interviewee or their heir prior to accessing the interview. Please contact the OJA for more information.
- Copyright is held by the Ontario Jewish Archives. Please contact the archives to obtain permission prior to use.
- Biography
- Ethel Abramsky (née Levin) came to live in Kingston after her marriage to Harry Abramsky in 1927. Ethel remained an active member of the Queen Esther Chapter of Hadassah throughout her life. Harry, an industrialist and business man, was a generous benefactor of Queens University and was instrumental in establishing Hillel House at Queens. Ethel and Harry had three children and eight grandchildren.
- Material Format
- sound recording
- Language
- English
- Name Access
- Abramsky, Ethel
- Abramsky, Harry
- Canadian Hadassah-WIZO
- International Order Daughters of the Empire (IODE)
- Geographic Access
- Kingston (Ont.)
- Florida
- Poland
- Original Format
- Audio cassette
- Copy Format
- Digital file
- Audio cassette
- Transcript
- G:\Description\Oral Histories\OH 42 - Abramsky\OH42_001_Log.pdf
- G:\Description\Oral Histories\OH 42 - Abramsky\OH42_002_Log.pdf
- G:\Description\Oral Histories\OH 42 - Abramsky\OH42_003_Log.pdf
- G:\Description\Oral Histories\OH 42 - Abramsky\OH42_004_Log.pdf
- Source
- Oral Histories
- Name
- Ben Lappin
- Material Format
- sound recording
- Interview Date
- 14 May 1981
- Source
- Oral Histories
- Name
- Ben Lappin
- Number
- OH 69
- Subject
- A.M. Klein and S.Bronfman
- Interview Date
- 14 May 1981
- Quantity
- 1
- Interviewer
- Adam Fuerstenberg
- Total Running Time
- OH69_001: 31.36 minutes
- OH69_002: 11.28 minutes
- Conservation
- Copied August 2003
- Notes
- Very poor sound quality; difficult to make out the content of this oral history.
- Use Restrictions
- Copyright is held by the Ontario Jewish Archives. Please contact the archives to obtain permission prior to use.
- Conditional access. Researchers must receive permission from the interviewee or their heir prior to accessing the interview. Please contact the OJA for more information.
- Biography
- Ben Lappin was bom in Kielce, Poland, in 1915, the son of Leibish and Sarah Lapidus. Ben moved with his family to Canada in 1924. He married Adah Auerbach, and they had four children: Shalom, David, Naomi, and Daniel.
- Ben received his undergraduate degree from McMaster University and his master's and doctoral degrees in social work from the University of Toronto. He spent several years at the Training Bureau for Jewish Communal Service in New York and returned to the University of Toronto in 1958, where he was a professor in the School of Social Work until 1970. He then accepted an appointment at the School of Social Work at Bar Ilan University in Israel, later becoming its director.
- In 1963, he published "The Redeemed Children: The Story of the Rescue of the War Orphans by the Jewish Community of Canada." He later wrote a number of other books, several humorous pieces for the CBC and Macleans Magazine, and served as editor of the Toronto Yiddisher Zhurnal’s English-language page.
- From 1948 to 1958, he was the executive director of the Canadian Jewish Congress, Central Region and was involved with the national executive committee of the Canadian Jewish Congress; the Canadian Association of Social Workers; and the Farband Labour Zionist Organization of Canada.
- He died in January 2001 at the age of eighty-four.
- Material Format
- sound recording
- Language
- English
- Name Access
- University of Toronto
- Canadian Jewish Congress. Central Region
- Geographic Access
- Kielce (Poland)
- Toronto (Ont.)
- Hamilton (Ont.)
- Israel
- Original Format
- Audio cassette
- Copy Format
- Audio cassette
- Source
- Oral Histories