Kriger Family fonds

Kriger Family fonds 

Akiva Kriger and his wife Shirley Kriger (nee Shirley Movshovitz) grew up in Carleton Place and Brockville in the Ottawa Valley. In 1989, about a month before the fall of the Berlin Wall, they and another couple, Morton Taller and Sally Taller, took a trip to the USSR and wrote a lengthy article about it for the Ottawa Jewish Bulletin. Akiva and Shirley had a son, David Kriger (b. 1956), who was married to Susan Kriger (nee Susan Ain). Shirley's father Max Movshovitz (b. Yakobovi, Lithuania ca. 1887 - d. 1981) was a merchant in Carleton Place. Max and his wife (b. Gorzdh, Lithuania) would get their kosher meat from Ottawa and it would be delivered by bus or by train. The one exception was poultry which Max slaughtered himself (the Archives has his shoichet knife). This is how it was up until about the 1940's. Max has a shoichet's certificate (now lost) in Yiddish which he received from his local yeshiva in Lithuania some time before he came to North America through Ellis Island ca. 1910. The Movshovitz's lived in Carleton Place from 1917-1976. 

Kriger Family fonds