- Ottawa Jewish Archives
- Eli Baker fonds
Digitized below this fonds
5 images · small copies hosted here, credited to Ottawa Jewish Archives
Portrait of Flight Lieutenant Eli Baker in Royal Canadian Air Force uniform.
Pilot Officer Eli Baker and cousin Al (Israel) Hoffman in England during World War II.
Eli Baker shakes hands with an unidentified American Officer upon graduation as an Air Observer in Edmonton, Alberta.
Eli Baker and Canadian servicemen.
Jack Baker and Eli Baker in Canadian Services uniforms.
Where
Not on the map yet.
- Held by
- Ottawa Jewish Archives via Canadian Jewish Heritage Network (incl. Alex Dworkin Canadian Jewish Archives)
- Dates
- 1944 (indexed as 1944)
- Level
- fonds
- Extent
- 1 file, 1 photograph
- Scope & content
- Fonds consists of two copied B&W photographs and two documents from his prisoner of war period as well as a photocopy of an article from the Ottawa Citizen from June 5, 1944 announcing Baker missing in action and recipient of Distinguished Flying Cross. 1. Information obtained by past Archivist Dawn Logan via a telephone conversation with Eli Baker, July 18, 2007. Additional notes from Dawn Logan speaking with Eli Baker at Hillel Lodge while he visited Ottawa, August 27, 2008. 2. A day or two after being shot down over Holland, Eli Baker briefly met a Dutch farmer in his field and gave him his Ottawa address. After the war, to the surprise of Fanny and Jacob Baker, the Dutch family Kuensten wrote the Bakers and they sponsored the family's immigration to Canada.
- Location
No place found in this description yet.
- Genre / form
- textual record
- Harvested
- 2026-10-15T20:06:53Z · source datestamp n/a · cjhn