harvestingUniversity of Waterloo Special Collections & Archives, City of Toronto Archives, Queen's University Archives, Western University Archives and Special Collections, NWT Archives, Archeion (Archives Association of Ontario network), Provincial Archives of Alberta. Results will grow as fonds arrive.
3,361 descriptions
item[Prior to 1917]
b&w, indoor portrait. Two men standing very close together against a painted backdrop of a field. The man on the left is wearing a suit with a high collar and staring intently into the camera; the man on the right, Abraham Rosenblatt is half-sitting and has hi…
item1929
b&w with white border, outdoor scene. Alice Eckstein sitting on rocks next to waterfalls. She is wearing a dress and a hat with a white veil.
itemApril 25, 1945
b&w with white border, outdoor scene. Graveyard in the concentration camp of Bergen-Belsen with a plate that reads: Grave # 2 Approx 5000.
file1984PC 01-03-023from P. Costin
Some have negatives.
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1 page, single sided. There is a leaf pattern border around the edges of the page, and the large block letters have a grain like pattern inside of them. In the middle of the certificate there is an illustration of a hill with 3 larger trees in the foreground a…
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B&W, outdoors. Group photograph of children in a river, forest in background. On right side, two women with short dark hair are standing on riverbank in foreground. One wears a long white dress, the other is wearing a shirt and either a slip or bloomers. Narra…
itemDecember 31, 1942
Cover has a chinoiserie landscape and initials in the bottom right corner. The edges are raised, and the one side is hinged together, and it opens to the left. Narrative: Made in Litzmannstadt (Lodz) Ghetto by Eryze Zygmunt as a birthday gift for Eryca Orbach …
item[ca. 1940]
Green 5 cents bill issued by the Central Reserve Bank of China. Obverse: traditional building with long stairway, with green Chinese text at t.c. and to the left. Reverse: "FIVE / CENTS" in b.c. in decorative grid pattern, with "5 / CENTS" in circles on either…
itemJuly 12, 1946
Photograph on the right side of the front page shows hills with houses in front of them. Narrative: The Free Word is a weekly journal published by the liberated Jews in the Displaced Persons Camp of Feldafing under the supervision of the military Government th…
item1939-November 21, 1950
1 envelope. Two postage stamps affixed at top right corner: one b&w 50 franc stamp and one blue and white 40 franc stamp next to it, both with scenes of mountainous landscapes. At bottom left, two identical green-and-white 2 franc stamps affixed vertically, on…
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B&w photograph with a white border. An outdoor portrait of the exit at Bergen-Belsen. There are two signs, one in English and one in German. The English one says "You are leaving camp bounds. Are you armed?" The German one says "Nach Obernkirchen." In the back…
file1934-1958PC P0183 -05-05
One of the photos shows the Ilizarov family in Kislovodsk in 1952.
item708
Olive wood covers, front cover Hebrew "Flowers of the State" with image of the Citadel. Back cover English "Flowers from the Holy Land," Hebrew "Bezalel Jerusalem," Title page "Flowers and Views of the Holy Land" in English, Hebrew, and French edition and copy…
item1947Markowitz-Benjamin, Sylvia
Print of a drawing by Sylvia Malkowitz, depicts 8 headstones that mark the burial of over 1000 Jewish ashes at a concentration camp. Text on one plaque reads "Here Lies 1000 Bodies" in English and German. A chimney can be seen in the distance. The weather is b…
item1955-1957
b&w picture of a gravestone in form of a simple sign that reads: "Here lie buried 800 bodies" in English and German and the date 23/04/1945 Narrative: The grave was dug up and a wooden board was placed on the earth as a memorial for the buried death inmates of…