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Paul Heller

Oral history interview with Paul Heller who was born in Poland in 1911. His father side comes from Poland whereas his mother's family originates from Lithuania. Paul discusses his involvement in Poland's forestry and later estate management, the rise of Hitler, Poland being attacked in 1939 and the lengths involved to escape Poland, retrieve his mother and emigrate to Canada. Paul married Edwina in 1936.

Edwina Heller

Oral history interview with Edwina Heller who was born in 1914 in Warsaw. She taught music for a number of years at the University of British Columbia.

Ralph Levy

Oral interview with Ralph Levy. Interviewed by Molly Kumar for SLAIS Oral History class. Ralph Levy was born in February, 1934 in Istanbul, Turkey. He is the youngest of four. He describes the language Ladino, which he speaks fluently. He lived in England as a child, where he witnessed the Blitzkrieg and attended post secondary there in Lester. He served in the British Military and was stationed in Egypt for two years. He met his wife in Lester and they were wed in 1957. After closing his marketplace business in England, he lived in the south of France till a storm struck. In 1968, he immigrated to Canada. He initially settled in Melfort, Saskatchewan, then went to Calgary, Fort McMurray and then moved to Victoria where he resided for thirty years before retiring in Vancouver.

Miriam Aroeste

Oral Interview with Miriam Aroeste for the JMABC Artists Scribe. Interviewed by Daniella Givon. Miriam was born in Mexico City in 1961 and she explains how her family ended up in Mexico from Poland prior to WWII. She discusses her immediate family, and how her and her husband resettled in Vancouver in 1990. Miriam talks about her career in the film industry and how she transitioned to visual arts with inspiration from her father and the need to balance her career with parenthood. She speaks about having little interest in arts, besides dance, growing up, but that changed when she lived in Europe for almost a decade during her 20s. Miriam describes her art style as more abstract than figurative and discusses her love of bright colours and the necessity of knowing what you want from an art career. She talks about curating art for Vancouver’s 2010 Olympics, selling her work, and the kinds of commissions she enjoys. Lastly Miriam discusses her time in art galleries as an artist, curator and art consultant and what she had learned about art collectors and art institutions along the way.

Postcard - April 18, 1917

Postcard from Private Edward Joseph Seidelman, dated April 18, 1917. (Assumed sent from France) to Rachel Seidelman of Vancouver. There are sentences already printed on the back of the postcard and some of these sentences have been crossed out. It looks as if this type of postcard was created by the military for soldiers to quickly communicate their current situation to loved ones when there was not a lot of time to write letters of their own.

Letter - May 7, 1917

Letter from Private Edward Joseph Seidelman, dated May 7, 1917. Sent from "Some other place in France this time" to Rachel Seidelman of Vancouver. Private Seidelman reports that he is a hospital recovering from shrapnel wounds to his right leg. He also mentions the murder of Chief of Police, McLennan, presumably of Vancouver.

Letter - May 22, 1917

Letter from Private Edward Joseph Seidelman, dated May 22, 1917. Sent from "Somewhere in France" to Rachel Seidelman of Vancouver. In the letter, Private Seidelman talks about how he could not rejoin his battalion yet as another shrapnel piece was found remaining in his leg, and had to be taken out by a doctor. The shrapnel piece was found with the aid of an X-ray scan.

Letter - May 24, 1917

Letter from Private Edward Joseph Seidelman, dated May 24, 1917. Sent from "An hospital 'somewhere in France'" to Rachel Seidelman of Vancouver. Private Seidelman mentions the English papers saying that conscription is going to be adopted in Canada. He also shares his disapproval of the idea of his younger brother, Harry, trying to enlist for the war, especially lying about his age to do so.

Letter - May 30, 1917

Letter from Private Edward Joseph Seidelman, dated May 30, 1917. Sent from "Same hospital in France" to Rachel Seidelman of Vancouver. In the letter, Private Seidelman mentions that the hospital that he is currently in is not a Canadian one, but an Imperial one.

Letter - June 10, 1917

Letter from Private Edward Joseph Seidelman, dated June 10, 1917. Sent from "Somewhere in France" to Rachel Seidelman of Vancouver.

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