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- Held by
- Montreal Holocaust Museum via Canadian Jewish Heritage Network (incl. Alex Dworkin Canadian Jewish Archives)
- Dates
- September 16, 1979 (indexed as 1979)
- Level
- item
- Extent
- Invitation : Paper : Ink : Grey, Black ; Ht: 6,25 in. x W: 9 in.
- Scope & content
- Rectangular, folded vertically in the middle. The cover has a barbwire illustration across the bottom, with two birds drawn in it.Invitation for the dedication of the Montreal Holocaust Memorial Centre. Announcing guest speaker Emil Fackenheim. Narrative: Guest speaker Emil Ludwig Fackenheim (1916-2003) was a Jewish philosopher and Reform rabbi. He was born in Halle, Germany and was arrested during the 1938 November pogroms (known as Kristallnacht). He was intenrned at the Sachsenhausen concentration camp until he escaped with his younger brother Wolfgang to Great Britain. Fackenheim was sent to Canada in 1940 as an "enemy alien" and interned at an internment camp near Sherbrooke, Quebec. After his release he served ad intermim Rabbi in Hamilton, Ontario (1943-1948). He received a Ph.D. from the University of Toronto with a dissertation on Medieval Arabic Philosophy (1945) and became Professor of Philosophy (1948–1984). He emigrated to Israel in 1984.
- Location
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- Genre / form
- textual record
- Format
- Document
- In the picture
- BirdDocumentIllustrationJewish CommunityMemorialMonumentPrintedTagged automatically by a vision model; may contain mistakes.
- Text in the image
- The Montreal Holocaust Memorial CentreALLIED JEWISH COMMUNITY SERVICESRead automatically; may contain mistakes.
- Language
- English
- Harvested
- 2026-10-19T03:21:16Z · source datestamp n/a · andornot
Digital objects at the source
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