ca-006572-i0117
results or resulted from: http://lod.ehri-project-test.eu/units/ca-006572-i0117/acquisitions/1
has end date: http://lod.ehri-project-test.eu/dates/1970-12-31
scope and content: Fonds consists of textual records, and includes articles and letters which Jacob Gora contributed to newspapers, his 400 page memoir in Yiddish, and 21 Polish books surrounding Polish history and the Holocaust, printed between 1946 and 1957, many published by Centralna Zydowska Kamisja.
has record set type: Fonds
has or had holder: http://lod.ehri-project-test.eu/institutions/ca-006572
identifier: I0117
biographical history: Jacob Gora (b. August 22, 1896, Poland - d. June 6, 1976, Ottawa) was an antiques dealer, author, and survivor of the Holocaust. Jacob lived in Warsaw prior to WWII, where he owned a business. He lost his wife, his 20 year old daughter and his 17 year old son not long after the German invasion of Warsaw. He lived in the Warsaw Ghetto, and spent time in several different camps before the end of the war. One of these was Buna-Monowitz (also known as Monowitz, or Auschwitz III), which was a subcamp of Auschwitz. According to Jacob, his skills as a tradesman in leatherwork and tailoring allowed him to survive, as he was able to barter his skills to Nazi officials who were in need of tradespeople. Jacob received $1200 for unpaid labour in the early 1960s from an international organization which was able to extract pay for former forced labour workers. Following the end of the Second World War, Jacob married Manya “Maria” (nee Zylberberg) Gora (b. January 8, 1910 - d. June 14, 2001), the daughter of Boruch and Zipporah Zylberberg, in 1946. Maria was also a Holocaust survivor who had lived in the Krakow Ghetto and lost her previous husband Levi Fajnwaks and two of her children Frima and Yosel while living in camps in Germany and Poland. Jacob, Maria, and Maria’s surviving son Paul Faynwachs (b. November 25, 1931, Krakow, Poland) lived in East Germany for several years, where Jacob and Maria’s daughter Cynthia Blumenthal (nee Gora) was born (b. Approx. 1947, Germany). The family emigrated to Canada in 1952, where they lived first in Toronto and Kingston before settling in Ottawa in 1953. Cynthia attended the B’nai B’rith camp in Quyon, Quebec as a child, and she was part of Beth Shalom’s first consecration class in 1960. In 1954 the Goras bought an antique store called the Old Curiosity Shop at 484 King Edward Ave., and renamed it Gora’s House of Antiques. The old store had been established in 1910, and many of the staff who had worked for the Old Curiosity Shop for many ye…
has beginning date: http://lod.ehri-project-test.eu/dates/1947-01-01
type: RecordSet
title: Jacob Gora fonds
has or had identifier: http://lod.ehri-project-test.eu/units/ca-006572-i0117/alternateIDs/1
note: All of the Yiddish material has been sent to off site storage in the Fall of 2005, except for the 400 page memoir - The Truth, a newspaper clipping, and one letter from Oberon Press.