Identification card

Held by

Montreal Holocaust Museum via Canadian Jewish Heritage Network (incl. Alex Dworkin Canadian Jewish Archives)

Dates

1951-1953 (indexed as 1951–1953)

Level

item

Extent

Identification card : Cardstock, paper : Printed : ink : Navy, gold, beige, black, grey ; Ht: 12 cm x W: 8 cm

Scope & content

Folded booklet with cloth cover has a portrait photograph of owner fastened with grommets to first page. On the other page is the cardholder's signature. Illegible ink stamp over the photo. This identity document belonged to Isidore Lorincz. Narrative: Rev. Isodore Lorincz was born 6 January 1908 in Hungary. His parents were Lowi Netti and Loliner (?) Jakob. He attended high school and Yeshiva, and graduated from the Jewish Theological Seminary of Budapest with ordination and smicha. During World War 2 his family was killed in Auschwitz. He came to Canada in 1957 after fleeing the revolution in Hungary. He served in two congregations before serving the Shaare Zedek Congregation as ritual director, then as Chazzan Sheni with a congregation in Hamilton, Ontario, for three years. Afterwards he served as rabbi in Port Colborne, Ontario. He settled in Montreal, Quebec, in 1962 where he became Chazzan Sheni for the next 26 years. He and his wife, Zita, continued to live in Montreal until there death around 2005.

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textual record

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DocumentIdentity CardPrintedTagged automatically by a vision model; may contain mistakes.

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TANUL Ó-IGAZOLVÁNYcjhn.caTANULÓ-IGAZOLVÁNYRead automatically; may contain mistakes.

Language

Hungarian

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