220 exhibits found
1947-1947
En 1947, le premier ministre Mackenzie-King a introduit des mesures plus libérales dans la politique d’immigration très restrictive du Canada. Ces changements ont permis au...
1947-1947
En 1947, le premier ministre Mackenzie-King a introduit des mesures plus libérales dans la politique d’immigration très restrictive du Canada. Ces changements ont permis au...
1914-1914
At the outset of World War I, Hyman Leibovitch was an eighteen-year-old cabinetmaker with “golden hands” and an ambitious plan to take his talent to...
1925-1926
Born in Warsaw’s Jewish district in 1910, Zelda Switzman arrived in Montreal in 1925 and eventually became “Jennie Litvack”. With the help of another emigrating...
1925-1925
Born in Vilkomir, Lithuania, to a wealthy family in 1903, Sidney Sarkin became a prominent union organizer and executive member of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers...
1934-1934
In 1928 Ena Ship (née Tenhouse) left her small town in Ukraine to come to Canada, where she was paid three dollars a week –...
1937-1941
Fleeing police surveillance, “fascist terror and hopelessness”, a Polish revolutionary in his twenties, Norman Massey (a nom de plume for Noach Puterman), arrived in Montreal...
2008--0001
Agence Ometz is a non-profit, human services agency that provides employment, immigration assistance and social services to Jewish families and individuals. Ometz (the Hebrew word...
1974-1993
Services à la famille juive (JFS) était un réseau de services sociaux et médicaux comprenant deux agences principales : l’Institut Baron de Hirsch (IBdH), un...
1947-1947
In 1947, Prime Minister Mackenzie King permitted a slight loosening of Canada’s stiff immigration policy, paving the way for the Jewish Labour Committee’s Kalmen Kaplansky,...