Ration Card
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- Held by
- Montreal Holocaust Museum via Canadian Jewish Heritage Network (incl. Alex Dworkin Canadian Jewish Archives)
- Dates
- December 21, 1956 (indexed as 1956)
- Level
- item
- Scope & content
- Paper divided into boxes by black lines, creased vertically in center, columns for blankets, dishes, clothes, and cigarettes. All dated 21 or 22 December. Distribution card for refugee camp for Izidor 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 and his wife, Zita, lived with their cousin Eugene Lorincz when they first arrived. Isadore 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 Zita continued to live in Montreal until there death around 2005. Zita was born 2 Jan 1917 in Nograd, Hungary.
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- CertificateCigaretteDocumentFormHandwrittenJewish CommunityPrintedStampTagged automatically by a vision model; may contain mistakes.
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- Extent
- Ration Card : Paper : Printed ; Ht: 17 cm x W: 30 cm
- Genre / form
- object
- Format
- Object / artifact
- Text in the image
- Neuflüchtlingslager :Uj menekülttábor :Name :Lörincz IzidorNév :Geb. Jahr :1908.Szül. év :CigaretteVerschiedenes :Vegyes :F : RM : EA : V21. Dez. 195622. Dez. 1956Decken TakaróKleider RuhaGeschirr EdényRead automatically; may contain mistakes.
- Language
- Hungarian
- Harvested
- 2026-10-19T03:21:16Z · source datestamp n/a · andornot
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