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6 Archival description results for Armed Forces

David Rubin

Oral history interview with David Rubin who was born in Transylvania, 1923. He was drafted into a working / bomb clearing battalion of the Hungarian Army in 1944. David chose to come to Canada in 1957 because he had heard it was the country of the future. The Canadian consulate chose Vancouver as his destination. Taught in Ottawa and was recommended to be the reader at Beth Israel Synagogue.

Dr. Jimmy White

Oral history interview with Dr. Jimmy White who was born in 1917 in Ohio. He interned at Vancouver General Hospital 1942-43. In the army he was stationed at various camps across Canada; served overseas in Holland and England. Dr. White speaks of the operations of the J.C.C and the Bulletin.

Izzy Fraeme

Oral history interview with Izzy Fraeme, who was born 1918 in Oradea, Romania, a predominantly Jewish population city. Izzy was drafted by the Romanian military in 1938. He was demobilized when Hungary and Romania negotiated territory and Oradea was transferred to Hungary. Later he was mobilized into the Hungarian army. Izzy and his wife emigrated to Vancouver, Canada in 1948.

Leonard Korsch

Oral history interview with Leonard Korsch who was born in Vancouver, 1920. Was involved with Young Judea until he started at the University of British Columbia, graduating in 1942. Leonard than joined the Royal Canadian Air Force as a radio mechanic. Leonard was in the realty business for fifty years - on the Vancouver Real Estate Board - alongside being a notary public and insurance agent.

Mollie (Mickelson) Klein

Oral history interview with Mollie Klein (nee Michelson) who was born in Edmonton, 1913. She had previously worked for the government as a secretary which was why she joined the Royal Canadian Air Force in Toronto, 1942 where she received British Commonwealth military office training, achieving the rank of Sargent.

Soli Jackson

Oral history interview with Soli Jackson who was born in Winnipeg, 1923. His mother was born in Deliatyn, Poland then a part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, now part of Ukraine. He moved to Vancouver in 1946. His brother Davey served in the Royal Canadian Air force and his brother Alex served in the Winnipeg Light Infantry, while Soli joined the Royal Canadian Naval Reserve in 1943. After having children Soli gradually became more active in Peretz School, where he noticed yearly deceases in contributions by the Jewish Federation to Peretz Schul and advocated against selling Peretz's property if the Jewish Community Federation of Canada had any stake in it for complete lack of supporting Peretz.