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Record information – Brief Salsberg, J.B. - Recollections
Hierarchical level:Item (Accession level)Date:1979-03-14Item number (ISN):81937Type of material:Sound recordingsFound in:Archives / Film, Video and Sound -
Record information – Details Fonds/collection:KLIGMAN, PaulAccession:1987-0494Media:SoundPart:2 of 2Production date:1979-03-14Production company:Paul Kligman (Interviewer)Description:Mr. Salsberg talks about his trip in 1939 to Poland to observe the conditions of the Jews in that country, including discussion of his family and their treatment, at a later stage, at the hands of the Nazis. An anecdote about young Jews hoping to return with him to Canada is also recounted. As well, Mr. Salsberg shares his reflections on the Stalin-Hitler pact and on Canada's political mood in 1939. He relates his agreement with Dimitrov to form a Commission to study the Jewish communities in the Soviet Union. He comments on the work of Earl Browder, an American marxist theorist, and on the work of the American group involved in the Commission for the study of Jewish Culture in the Soviet Union. <60mn>Subjects:CANADA~COMMUNISM~COMMUNISTS~FASCISM~HOLOCAUST, JEWISH <1939-1945>~JEWS~MARXIAN ECONOMICS~NATIONAL SOCIALISM~PACIFISM~POLAND~POLITICS & GOVERNMENT~UNITED STATES~WORLD WAR, 1939-1945~CO-OPERATIVE COMMONWEALTH FEDERATION~WOODSWORTH, J.S.Language:EnglishDetailed holdings information: -
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