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Diary kept by Ethel Ostry [textual record]

Hierarchical level:

Fonds

Date:

1978.

Reference:

R1756-0-9-E, MG30-C184

Type of material:

Textual material

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Item ID number:

101866

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Diary kept by Ethel Ostry
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Date(s):

1978.

Place of creation:

No place, unknown, or undetermined

Extent:

4.7 cm of textual records (230 p) bound photocopy.

Language of material:

English

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Item is a bound photocopy (230 pages) of a diary kept by Ethel Ostry, welfare officer with the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Agency (U.N.R.R.A.) in Europe, 1945-1947. The diary was transcribed, edited and copied by her sister, Elizabeth O. Fisher in 1978. It was titled After the Holocaust: My Work with U.N.R.R.A. and originally titled Where is My Family?.

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Ostry, Ethel, 1904-1976

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Ostry, Ethel, 1904-1976

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Ostry, Ethel, 1904-1976 : Ethel Ostry born in 1904 at Elizabethgrad, Russia, immigrated with her family to Canada settling in Winnipeg. Upon graduation from the University of Manitoba in 1924 with a B.A., she taught school in the country and then worked for the city of Winnipeg as a social worker. After serving as director of the Baron de Hirsch Institute of Montreal in the late 1920s, she visited and worked in Palestine. During World War II, she worked in the hospitals of Toronto as a psychiatric social worker.

After the end of the war, she volunteered to serve with the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Agency (U.N.R.R.A.) in Europe. She was director and principal welfare officer in several displaced persons camps in France and Germany. After completion of her service with U.N.R.R.A., she worked for the Canadian Jewish Congress settling 1200 youths who survived the Holocaust in homes across the country.

She went into private practice as a family and marriage counselor in Toronto and then in Vancouver, where she died in January 1976.

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Documents created in: Europe
Received in 1980 from Elizabeth O. Fishe of Sarasota, Fla. The originals have been destroyed.
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Immigrants Canada

Russians Canada

Russes Canada
Source:

Private

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MG30-C184
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