| | Manuscript Collection | Requires cookie* | | 21 | Title: | Kol Israel Foundation Records
| | | | Creator: | Kol Israel Foundation | | | | Dates: | 1973-2001 | | | | Abstract: | The Kol Israel Foundation is an organization of Holocaust survivors resident in Cleveland. It was founded in 1959 to represent area Holocaust survivors while helping secure special education, guidance, vocational training, social and economic adjustment for immigrants settling in Greater Cleveland. A Second Generation group sponsors educational workshops while the foundation sponsors annual Holocaust commemoration events at different synagogues throughout the city. This collection consists of agendas, meeting minutes, bank statements, booklets, correspondence, learning packet, letterhead, lists, newsletters, newspaper clippings, notes, programs, reports, applications, thank you letters, autographs, certificates, notices, itinerary, mission statements, news releases, photographs, raffle tickets, tables, and scrapbooks. | | | | Call #: | MS 5404 | | | | Extent: | 3 linear feet (three containers) | | | | Subjects: | Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) | World War, 1939-1945. | Holocaust survivors -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Holocaust survivors -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Personal narratives. | War crime trials.
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| Manuscript Collection | Requires cookie* | | 22 | Title: | Kol Israel Foundation Records, Series II
| | | | Creator: | Gift of Kol Israel Foundation, 2017 | | | | Dates: | 1891-2016 | | | | Abstract: | The Kol Israel Foundation is an organization of Holocaust survivors resident in Cleveland. It was founded in 1959 to represent area Holocaust survivors while helping secure special education, guidance, vocational training, and social and economic adjustment for immigrants settling in Greater Cleveland. Beginning in 1978, a Second Generation group sponsored educational workshops while the foundation sponsored annual Holocaust commemoration events at different synagogues throughout the city. However, Second Generation Kol Israel no longer exists. The Kol Israel Foundation Records, Series II collection consists of an authorization, badges and pins, bibliographies, books, booklets, CDs, a cassette tape, certificates, a chronological table, cloth yellow stars, coins from the Third Reich period, correspondence, curriculum guides, drawings, DVDs, employee records, an essay, financial records, floor plans, an identity card, information sheets, invitations, letters, lists, maps, meeting minutes, newsletters, newspaper clippings, notes, an outline, pamphlets, photographs, poems, a poster, press releases, programs, recognitions, reels, reports, rosters, schedules, speech texts, and VHS tapes. | | | | Call #: | MS 5464 | | | | Extent: | 2.5 linear feet (4 boxes, including one oversize container) | | | | Subjects: | Kol Israel Foundation (Cleveland, Ohio) | Holocaust survivors -- Ohio -- Cleveland | Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) | World War, 1939-1945 | Jews -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Societies, etc.
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| Manuscript Collection | Requires cookie* | | 23 | Title: | Sigmund H. Wojcik and Mike A. Ruby Collection
| | | | Creator: | Wojcik, Sigmund H. and Ruby, Mike A. | | | | Dates: | 1934-2006 | | | | Abstract: | Sigmund H. Wojcik (b. 1917 was the son of Polish immigrants. He grew up in the Tremont area of Cleveland, Ohio, and graduated from Lincoln High School in June of 1935. Wojcik joined the Naval Reserve at 17 and re-enlisted in the Navy in 1940 after receiving his draft card. He served first on the USS Wilmington, and then on the USS Polaris, a Navy supply ship. While on board the Polaris, Wojcik served in the Atlantic, the Mediterranean, and the Pacific, and held the position of Chief Boatswain's Mate. He met Mike Ruby on board, and the two became fast friends and roommates. In September of 1945, after the end of the war, he received his honorable discharge and returned to the Cleveland area. Mike A. Ruby (b. June 12, 1918) was born in Campbell, Ohio, and moved to Cleveland shortly after. His family moved to Parma before he was enrolled in junior high school. Always enjoying a fascination for the water, Ruby joined the Naval Reserve at 17 and served in the United States Navy during World War II on board the USS Polaris. Most likely because of his skill at hands-on work, Ruby worked as a painter and a carpenter, eventually earning the title of Chief Carpenter's Mate. While on board the Polaris, Ruby served in the Atlantic, the Mediterranean, and the Pacific. He is the best friend and former bunkmate of Sigmund H. Wojcik. Although the war ended in September of 1945, Ruby was one of the last members aboard the Polaris to be honorably discharged, which he received on October 14, 1945. The collection consists of oral histories, scrapbooks, photographs, sailor's logs, newspaper clippings, various printed material (mostly printed during WWII), and other miscellaneous objects. James S. Wojcik, Sigmund Wojcik's son, helped his father gather many of the materials found in the collection, including many photographs and a scrapbook. A smaller part of the collection was sent in by Mike Ruby himself. | | | | Call #: | MS 4980 | | | | Extent: | 0.60 linear feet (2 containers) | | | | Subjects: | United States. Navy -- History -- World War, 1939-1945. | Polaris (Ship : 1941-1957) | World War, 1939-1945. | World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, American. | World War, 1939-1945 -- Naval operations, American. | Sailors -- Ohio -- Cleveland.
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| Manuscript Collection | Requires cookie* | | 24 | Title: | William Lipman Family Papers
| | | | Creator: | Lipman, William family | | | | Dates: | 1940-1968 | | | | Abstract: | William Lipman was born in 1895 in Poland. He immigrated to Cleveland, Ohio, in 1910 and married Gertrude, nee Kornreich, (b. Jan. 30, 1903) on Apr. 6, 1924. Lipman owned Bill's Clothing and Furnishings, with two locations at St. Clair and East 152nd, and 618 East 185th Streets, Cleveland. Lipman died in Cleveland on May 10, 1981. The collection consists of correspondence between the Lipman family in Cleveland and relatives in Poland, France, Israel, and Japan during World War II and after. Much of the correspondence relates to Lipman's efforts to secure visas for his mother and siblings to emigrate from Nazi Poland. | | | | Call #: | MS 4998 | | | | Extent: | 0.20 linear feet (1 container) | | | | Subjects: | Lipman, William, 1895-1981. | Lipke family. | Lipman family. | Jews, Polish -- Emigration and immigration. | World War, 1939-1945. | Poland -- Emigration and immigration. | United States -- Emigration and immigration.
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| Manuscript Collection | Requires cookie* | | 30 | Title: | Cleveland Military Units Records
| | | | Creator: | Cleveland Military Units | | | | Dates: | 1877-1964 | | | | Abstract: | Troop A was founded in Cleveland, Ohio, in 1877 as an independent military unit to defend against strikers and unruly mobs. It affiliated with the Ohio National Guard in 1877, formed part of the 1st Ohio Volunteer Cavalry in 1898, was absorbed into the 135th Field Artillery in 1918, and reorganized in 1920 as Troop A of the 107th Cavalry Regiment of the Ohio National Guard. It became part of the 107th Armored Cavalry Regiment in 1947. The Cleveland Gatling Gun Battery was also founded in 1877 to quell labor violence. It disbanded by 1905. The collection consists of correspondence, minutes, invoices, vouchers, financial statements and reports, ledger sheets, legal documents and briefs, newspaper clippings, blueprints, and maps of the 1st Cleveland Cavalry (Troop A); constitution, by-laws, minutes, financial accounts, rosters, booklets of memoranda and statistical information, and other materials of the Cleveland Gatling Gun Battery; and records of the Troop A Armory Company, the Cavalry Riding Academy, and the Cavalry Veteran Association. | | | | Call #: | MS 3000 | | | | Extent: | 8.0 linear feet (20 containers) | | | | Subjects: | United States. Army. -- History -- Punitive expedition into Mexico, 1916. | Troop A (Cleveland, Ohio) | Strikes and lockouts -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | World War, 1914-1918. | World War, 1939-1945. | United States -- Armed Forces -- Reserves. | United States -- Militia. | United States -- History, Military. | Cleveland (Ohio) -- History, Military. | Riots -- Ohio -- Cleveland.
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| Book | Requires cookie* | | 32 | Title: | Dad's war: a workshop on finding and telling your father's World War II story
| | | | Creator: | Johnston, W. Wesley | | | | Publication: | W. Wesley Johnston], Clovis, California?],[2014] | | | | Notes: | "Workshop book"--Cover. Includes bibliographical references. | | | | Call #: | CS 66 S69 J64 2014 | | | | Extent: | 77 pages : illustrations ; 28 cm | | | | Subjects: | World War (1939-1945) | Genealogy | World War, 1939-1945 -- Research -- United States | Soldiers -- United States -- Genealogy | Archival resources | Armed Forces Research | Genealogy | Research | Soldiers | United States -- Armed Forces -- Research -- Handbooks, manuals, etc | United States -- History, Military -- Archival resources | United States -- Genealogy -- Handbooks, manuals, etc | United States | Genealogy | Handbooks and manuals | Military history
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| Book | Requires cookie* | | 33 | Title: | I flew for China
| | | | Creator: | Leonard, Royal. | | | | Publication: | Doubleday, Doran and Co, Garden City, N.Y,1942. | | | | Call #: | DS777.53 .L581 1942 | | | | Extent: | xx, 295 pages : color map ; 22 cm | | | | Subjects: | Leonard, Royal | Chiang, Kai-shek, -- 1887-1975 -- Friends and associates | Zhang, Xueliang, -- 1901-2001 -- Friends and associates | China. -- Lu jun -- Officers -- Biography | China National Aviation Corporation -- Employees | Sino-Japanese War, 1937-1945 -- Personal narratives, American | Sino-Japanese War, 1937-1945 -- Aerial operations | World War, 1939-1945 | China -- History -- 1937-1945 | Japan -- History -- 1912-1945
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| Book | Requires cookie* | | 34 | Title: | The world that was. Section 4, America, 1900-1945: transmitting the Torah legacy to America
| | | | Creator: | Scheinbaum, A. L. | | | | Publication: | Living Memorial, in conjunction with the Hebrew Academy of Cleveland and Shaar Press, Distributed by Mesorah Publications, Cleveland Heights, Ohio, Brooklyn, N.Y,c2004. | | | | Notes: | "The Klein Family edition." Includes bibliographical references (p. 453-456). | | | | Call #: | BM205 S319 2004 | | | | Extent: | xxiv, 456 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 29 cm. | | | | Subjects: | Jews rescue (1939-1945 : World War) | World War (1939-1945) | Orthodox Judaism -- United States -- History -- 20th century | Jewish religious education -- United States -- History -- 20th century | Judaism -- Study and teaching -- United States -- History -- 20th century | Rabbis -- United States -- Biography | Jews -- United States -- History -- 20th century | Holocaust survivors -- United States -- Biography | World War, 1939-1945 -- Jews -- Rescue | Holocaust survivors | Jewish religious education | Jews | Judaism Study and teaching | Orthodox Judaism | Rabbis | United States | Biography | History
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