Avrum Katz surveying road construction

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Held by: Montreal Holocaust Museum via Canadian Jewish Heritage Network (incl. Alex Dworkin Canadian Jewish Archives)
Dates: [Prior to 1939] (indexed as 1939)
Level: item
Extent: Photograph : Paper : b&w ; Ht: 5 1/4 in. x W: 3 3/8 in.
Scope & content: b&w, outdoor. A man, Avrum Katz, is shown here using surveying equipment to guide construction along with the man in charge of blueprint and the geometre both seen in the background. Narrative: Awrum Katz was the donor's father. Born in 1892, Awrum was married to Rebecca Pfeffer. He worked as a civil engineer. They moved to England in 1939, with their children Rose and Moshe. From England they travelled to New York to attend the World Fair. They were denied citizenship in the USA and later settled in Montreal. Avrum worked as a peddler and attended university at night to become a civil engineer. He died in 1942.
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In the picture: Cap Construction Site Crowd Engineer Man Outdoor Event Road Work Street Street Map Suit Surveying InstrumentTagged automatically by a vision model; may contain mistakes.
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