- Accession Number
- 2023-2-8
- Source
- Archival Accessions
- Accession Number
- 2023-2-8
- Material Format
- textual record
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- ca. 18 cm of textual records
- 207 photographs : b&w and col. ; 28 x 32 cm or semaller
- Date
- [ca. 1890]-2016
- Scope and Content
- Accession consists of records related to Clara and Sándor Rosenbaum, and their extended families. Included are documents and photographs documenting their lives in Hungary prior to the Holocaust, as well as their lives after immigrating to Tangier and, subsequently, Canada. Also includes Holocaust accounts and restitution papers, immigration documents, vital documents, correspondence, paper money, a late 19th- or early 20th-century prayer book, and a book of Shabbat songs.
- Administrative History
- Clara (Klára) Szabó was born in Bölcske on 28 Nov. 1920, the daughter of local lawyer Imre Szabó (born on 2 Jun. 1893 in Bölcske) and Vilma Szabó (née Stern, born in Bölcske in 1892). She had three siblings: Elizabeth (Erzsébet), born on 30 Dec. 1913; Anna, born on 10 Jan. 1915; and András, born on 5 Dec. 1916. The family lived in Paks, where she spent most of her youth. She went to elementary school in Paks, but moved to Budapest in 1935 to attend boarding school, returning to Paks in 1939. Her father committed suicide on 3 Mar. 1940. She married Sándor Rosenbaum in Paks on 14 Jan. 1941. While visiting her sister in Békéscsaba, the whole family were deported to Auschwitz: Clara, her mother, her brother, her two sisters, and her two-year-old niece. From Auschwitz, Clara and her sister Elizabeth were sent to Ravensbrück, and from there to Neustadt bei Coburg, where they worked as forced labourers at a Siemens factory. The rest of her family were killed in the gas chambers at Auschwitz. On 15 Apr. 1945, Clara and Elizabeth escaped from a forced march and headed towards the American advance. After the war, Clara and her husband reunited, and in 1946 relocated to Tangier, where Sándor's brother, Nikolas, had been living since 1940. There, they had two children: André (born on 27 Aug. 1949) and Anique (born on 1 Oct. 1950). They lived there until 1956, when the family relocated to Montreal. There, she was the president of the Dayan Chapter of Hadassah-WIZO from 1980 to 1982. She moved to Toronto in 1997 to be closer to her children. Clara died on 6 Feb. 2016 in Toronto.
- Sándor (Alexander) Rosenbaum was born in Paks on 28 Jul. 1906, the son of Mihály (Michael) Rosenbaum (merchant, born on 1875 or 1876) and Regina Freund (1882-1932). He had three siblings: Hedvig (married to Oskar Barotti), Sari (married to Zoltan Barotti), and Nikolas. During the war, from May 1943 to Sep. 1943, he served at the Jewish labour service squadron No. 104/3, in Budapest, at the post office No. 70 labour service. The squadron was then moved to the Carpathians, and Sándor worked as a farm labourer in the region. He served as a yellow armband labour serviceman in the Carpathians until the end of Oct. 1944. He escaped from the labour camp with a friend, hiding in the Carpathian forests for a few weeks. After the war, Sándor changed his last name to Rostás to sound more Hungarian, later changing it back to Rosenbaum. He immigrated with his wife Clara to Tangier, and later to Montreal with their two kids, having worked most of his life as a businessman. He died in Montreal on 6 Jul. 1987 and was buried at Shaar Hashomayim Cemetery in Outremont.
- Subjects
- Holocaust survivors
- Families
- Name Access
- Rosenbaum, Clara (Klára), 1920-2016
- Rosenbaum, Alexander (Sándor), 1906-1987
- Places
- Hungary
- Tangier (Morocco)
- Montréal (Québec)
- Toronto (Ont.)
- Source
- Archival Accessions
- Passenger Names
- Watson, Mrs. Marion
- Date Range
- June 6, 1911 to January 19, 1915
- Source
- Rotenberg Ledger
- Passenger Names
- Watson, Mrs. Marion
- Page Number
- 408
- Date Range
- June 6, 1911 to January 19, 1915
- Photographer
- Harvey and Adena Glasner
- Source
- Rotenberg Ledger
- Part Of
- Canadian Jewish Congress, Ontario Region fonds
- Community Relations Committee series
- Anti-Semitism cases sub-series
- Level
- File
- Fonds
- 17
- Series
- 5-3
- File
- 144
- Material Format
- textual record
- Date
- 1957
- Physical Description
- 1 folder of textual records
- Scope and Content
- File consists of news clippings, correspondence and press releases regarding the Canadian visit of Col. Andre Melynik, the man charged with responsibility for a 1941 pogrom in Lemberg, Ukraine.
- Notes
- Previously processed and cited as part of MG8 S.
- Subjects
- Pogroms--Ukraine
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Part Of
- Ladovsky family fonds
- Photographs file
- Level
- Item
- Fonds
- 83
- File
- 9
- Item
- 32
- Material Format
- graphic material
- Date
- [195-?]
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : b&w ; 13 x 18 cm
- Admin History/Bio
- Fishel Bimko (1890–1965) was a Yiddish author and playwright who was born in Kielce, Poland.
- Scope and Content
- Item is a photograph of Aaron Ladovsky welcoming the Yiddish playwright Fishel Bimko on behalf of the Kieltzer Society.
- Notes
- Copyright: Toronto Star, G199-1. Originally cited as photo # 3830.
- Name Access
- Kieltzer Sick Benefit Society
- Bimko, Fishel
- Ladovsky, Aaron
- Kieltzer Society
- Subjects
- Authors, Yiddish
- Dramatists
- Societies
- Repro Restriction
- Copyright is not held by the Ontario Jewish Archives. It is the responsibility of the researcher to obtain permission prior to use.
- Places
- Kielce (Poland)
- Toronto (Ont.)
- Accession Number
- 1983-11-6
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Part Of
- Maurice Solway fonds
- Photographs file
- Level
- Item
- Fonds
- 13
- File
- 1
- Item
- 11
- Material Format
- graphic material
- Date
- 1955
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : b&w ; 21 x 25 cm
- Scope and Content
- This photo is taken from the Canadian debut of the Castelnuovo-Tedesco quintet for guitar and strings. The players visible in this photograph are, left to right: Ivan Romanoff (viola), Andres Segovia (guitar) and Maurice Solway (violin).
- Notes
- The photo is signed and dated by Andres Segovia in pen. The date and identification are written on the back in pencil.
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
