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Schiffer, Fred

  • Pessoa
  • April 1, 1917-November 6, 1999

Fred Siegfried Schiffer was born in Vienna, Austria, April 1, 1917, the son of Arthur Schiffer and Theresa Grohslicht , and the older brother of Kathe and Lizzie, all of whom perished in the Holocaust. A Law student at the University of Vienna until 1938, he reached England as a refugee shortly before war broke out. In England he met his wife Olive, whom he married in 1942, and began his distinguished career as a photographer.

Olive and Fred had two children, Jennifer and Roger. In 1948 he set off with his wife and two small children to Buenos Aires, Argentina. There he became a respected artistic and commercial photographer. A nude photograph of Frances Taylor submitted to an American magazine contest won Schiffer a trip to North America, where he embraced the ambiance of Vancouver. In 1958, when political unrest in Argentina became unbearable, the Schiffer family moved to Vancouver.

Schiffer opened his studio on Seymour Street where he quickly became Vancouver’s top portrait photographer. He won numerous awards for his photos. A famous 1967 shot of journalist Jack Webster taking a drag on a smoke was selected for the International Exposition of Photography in Portland, Oregon. Two years earlier, all six of the photos he submitted to Britain's Royal Photographic Society were selected for its annual exhibition. In 1971, he was hired as the photographer for the marriage of Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau to Margaret Sinclair.

Fred Schiffer was a member of the Fellow of the Royal Photographic Society, Master Photographer, Life Member of Cameracraftsmen of America, and recipient of many honours. Self-taught, he believed in formal training for photographers, and was instrumental in setting up the first diploma program in Western Canada at Langara College. He had an impeccable eye and a gift for revealing portraiture. A meticulous, intelligent and quick-witted lover of words. Latin scholar. Irresistible jokester. Committed Rotarian and unlikely but free-wheeling RV'er. A kind and deeply honourable man. In 1994 he suffered the loss of his son Roger, age 50.

Fred Schiffer passed away November 6, 1999 at the age of 82 years. His wife Olive passed away June 4, 2004 in Toronto.

Laufer, Lucy

  • Pessoa
  • January 15, 1938 -

Lucy Laufer (born Langer) was born on the 15th of January, 1938, in Vienna, Austria. Her parents, Olga (born Spitzer) and Friedrich (Fritz, born Lowy) Langer fled Vienna with Lucy and her brother Michael Hans Max Langer at the outbreak of World War II, when Lucy was only 7 months old. The family escaped to France, where they waited in the suburbs of Paris for approximately 8 months until they were allowed into Palestine in February of 1939. Times were tumultuous in Palestine, and Fritz struggled to find work. In 1942, the Langers left Palestine for Canada, where Fritz’s previous employers in Austria had emigrated. The influence and financial support of the Bloch-Bauer (later Bentley) and Pick (later Prentice) families made it possible for the Langers to be included in the 112 Jews who were admitted to Canada by Order in Council in that year. The first stop was Trinidad, where they waited to receive visas to travel through the United States. After getting their visas, the family boarded a ship called the Robert E. Lee. One day out from port, the Robert E. Lee was torpedoed and sunk within minutes. The family’s important documents, money, and Olga’s jewelry was lost, but the family survived on a lifeboat. They were eventually rescued and taken to port in New Orleans. The Langers were able to see their family in St. Louis, Missouri and New York, New York before they finally arrived in Vancouver, four years after they first left their home in Austria.
Lucy Laufer grew up in Vancouver BC, attending Cecil Rhodes Elementary School and King Edward High School. When ill as a child, the care she received influenced her to decide to become a nurse as an adult. At age 13 Lucy attended Camp Miriam and became active in Habonim. Lucy graduated high school at age 17, after which in 1955 she participated in a Habonim workshop on kibbutz Kfar Blum in Israel. Laufer graduated Vancouver General Hospital Nursing School in 1959; she then worked in New York for a year before moving to kibbutz Yif’at in northern Israel in 1961. She worked on the kibbutz for about two years, in the orchards and as a nurse in infirmary. Lucy married Gidon Laufer in Haifa, Israel in 1965. In Haifa she was a nurse at a well-baby clinic and a school. She returned to Vancouver, BC around 1966 with Gidon. Gidon started a business in junk and recycling, and Lucy continued to work as a nurse, specializing in wound care and palliative care. The Laufers were divorced in 1991.
Laufer has volunteered extensively in the Vancouver community, serving on Vancouver’s Habonim Camp Miriam committee for approximately 20 years. Laufer has served the L’Chaim Adult Jewish Day Care as both a nurse and board member. She has also volunteered with Shalom BC and Habitat for Humanity, and contributed her professional expertise as a community health nurse. Laufer has two sons. Danny was born in 1968; He and his partner Monica Muller have two children, Jacob (b. 2006) and Anna (b. 2008). Ron was born in 1976; He and his partner Tamar Kafka have three children, Jonas (b. 2014), Sacha (b. 2016), and Amira (b. 2019).

Livni, Michael

  • Pessoa
  • January 26, 1935

Michael Livni (born Langer, called Max as a child) was born in Vienna, Austria on January 26th, 1935. Max’s education began in Tel Aviv, where he attended the Nordau school and received private lessons in English. This time in Palestine, while brief, had a significant impact on Max’s life as a Zionist. In Canada, Max attended Cecil Rhodes Elementary School and King Edward High School. In high school he played table tennis and badminton. He went to the YMCA camp Elphinstone throughout his childhood and eventually became a camp counselor there. At 15 he attended his first meeting of Habonim and began his involvement with the Jewish community. Michael studied pre-med with an intended career in child psychiatry at the University of British Columbia, starting at age 17 in 1952. He was in the Varsity Outdoors Club, and President of the Hillel foundation throughout medical school. Starting in July of 1959 Michael interned for two years in Brooklyn, New York, was the doctor at a Jewish summer camp in New York in 1960, and did a locum in Ontario in 1961. From 1961-1962 he accompanied Habonim to Israel, working as a medic, visiting kibbutzim, and getting a temporary license to work in Soroka Medical Center in Be’er Sheva for a month. He then returned to New York for his residency at the Brooklyn State Hospital. This was a turning point, where he felt that he no longer wanted to work in medicine.
Michael left New York in 1963, arriving in Israel on June 10th of that year. He worked on kibbutz Gesher HaZiv, for the first year focusing on agriculture. He met his first wife, Zmira Yechezkel, at the kibbutz, and they were married in July 1964. He spent a year in Advanced Studies in Hebrew and Jewish Studies at the Oranim Seminary School in Kiriat Tivon before becoming a 6th and 7th grade teacher at Gesher HaZiv. Michael held this position for two years before moving on to several other positions in areas such as the kibbutz education department, treasury, turkey breeding program, and health committee. He served on the Israeli army home guard and as an army reserves medic. Michael worked in New York as the central Shaliach for the reform movement from 1975-1977, organizing the first groups going to kibbutzim Yahel and Lotan. He returned to Israel in 1978 and worked with the Israeli reform youth movement from 1979-1983. Michael and Zmira were divorced in 1986; he moved to kibbutz Lotan the same year in an advisory role. He changed his last name to Livni in 1988 as a way to Hebrewize his name and reconnect with the meaning of the family name ‘Lowy.’ Michael met Dr. Brenda (Shaw) Herzberg in 1992, and they were married in 2005, both in a reform ceremony at kibbutz Lotan and in a civil marriage in Australia. At kibbutz Lotan Michael has worked in accounting, date farming, citrus groves, tourism, and the ecology branch. His other work includes Chairperson of the Education Committee of World Habonim, Executive Director of the World Zionist Organization’s Department of Education and Culture in the Diaspora, and Executive of the Kibbutz Movement’s International Communal Desk. While Michael retired in 2005, he continues to volunteer, write, research, and work with several organizations. He has three children from his marriage with Zmira. Dvir was born in 1968, he and his partner Sarah Bar Avraham have three daughters, Gefen (b. 2001), Ruth (b. 2003), and Noor (b. 2009). Nimrod was born 1970, he and his partner Andrea Jarvis have three sons, Jordan (b. 2001), Raphael (b. 2003), and Hadas (b. 2006). Sivian was born in 1978.

Staniloff, Sid

  • A.2020.001
  • Pessoa
  • 1920 - 1995

Sid Staniloff was born circa 1924 in Winnipeg, Manitoba to Max and Sophie Staniloff. It is unknown how he settled in Vancouver. Sid served as an officer in the Royal Air Force and completed a tour of duty in the Far East Theatre. He became a manager of a menswear shop, in Lansdowne Centre, Richmond (unknown years and store name). Sid and his wife Ethel had two children, Howard and Mindi Staniloff. Sid was a loyal member of B’nai B’rith and during the 1970s (circa 1972 – 1974), became president of the Lions Gate Lodge No. 1716 B’nai B’rith. In the 1980s, Sid became president of the Shalom Legion Branch #178 of the Royal Canadian Legion. Sid also became one of the founders of the Jewish War Veterans in Vancouver. Sid had a successful career conducting charitable events for the Jewish community and Vancouver’s community at large. He passed away in 1995.

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