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Gertrude Katz fonds [multiple media]

Hierarchical level:

Fonds

Date:

1957-2000.

Reference:

R6632-0-4-E

Type of material:

Textual material, Sound recordings, Objects (including medals and pins), Maps and cartographic material, Art

Found in:

Archives / Collections and Fonds

Item ID number:

182748

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Gertrude Katz fonds
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Date(s):

1957-2000.

Bilingual equivalent:

Click here

Place of creation:

Québec (Province)

Added country of publication:

Israel

Extent:

64 cm of textual records.
1 audio reel (ca. 8 min).
1 map.
1 print : poster.
6 campaign buttons.
1 drawing : pen and ink.

Language of material:

English

Added language of material:

English, Hebrew, French

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Fonds consists of personal papers of Gertrude Katz, consisting of personal correspondence with prison inmates in the Quebec penitentiary system and other materials which she collected for her book, The Time gatherers, including draft manuscripts of the book as well as book reviews along with political and abortion campaign buttons. Also included are Gertrude Katz's files relating to her involvement with the Committee for Neutral Schools based in Quebec in the 1960s; her role as campaign manager of Dr. Henry Morgentaler's 1972 Quebec election campaign bid; and correspondence, briefs and other materials relating to the abortion issue, her long association with Dr. Henry Morgentaler and the Canadian Abortion Rights Action League. As well there are journals and manuscripts of the Holocaust trip of remembrance she and her husband Carl made with Dr. Henry Morgentaler's brother, Mike to Poland in 1978. Mike and Henry are survivors of the Lodz ghetto and Auschwitz.

Sound recording consists of an interview of Gertrude Katz for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation network radio series Matinée, about her book The Time Gatherers.

The map was created in Jerusalem, Israel and depicts concentration camps and ghettos in Europe, 1941-1944. It is in Hebrew. The map was used by Mike Morgentaler during the visit to Poland in September, 1978.

The bilingual poster (both sides) was used during Dr. Henry Morgentaler's Quebec provincial election campaign titled "People First-For a More Humane Society Vote for Dr. Henry Morgentaler N.D.P. Independent".

The drawing is a portrait of Raymond Boyer who contributed a short story to The Time Gatherers. The creator is unknown. The drawing is a photocopy.

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Katz, Gertrude, 1929-

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Katz, Gertrude

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Katz, Gertrude, 1929- : Gertrude Katz, social activist and friend of Dr. Henry Morgentaler, was born in 1929 and educated in Montreal. From 1966 to 1970, at the invitation of Kay Lines, of the Creative Awards Association, she taught creative writing on a volunteer basis, to prison inmates in the minimum, medium, maximum and super-maximum institutions of the St. Vincent de Paul federal penitentiary complex. The results of her work were published in her book, The Time Gatherers, 1970. She has been a close confidant and associate of Dr. Henry Morgentaler for many years beginning in 1965 when they met at a meeting of the Committee for Neutral Schools which fought the confessional school system in Quebec. She helped form Dr. Morgentaler's Montreal Defence Committee in 1972-1973 and worked on its executive. She was Dr. Morgentaler's Quebec election campaign manager in 1972 and his official agent. A year later, together with others, she formed the Montreal Branch of the Canadian Abortion Rights Action League. Since 1978, she has been Controller for the Morgentaler Clinics in Montreal, Toronto, Winnipeg, Edmonton, Fredericton, Halifax, and St. John's.

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Textual records, graphic material, object, cartographic material (No finding aid) No finding aid exists. (not applicable)

Sound recordings (Electronic) See MISACS database for item-level description. (90: Open)
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Authors, Canadian

Abortion services Canada

Prisoners Québec (Province)
Source:

Private

Related control no.:

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2000-01381-3
2001-0011 VSA
2018-00047-0
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Access restriction document

http://data2.archives.ca/pdf/pdf001/r000000970.pdf

Textual records

[Consultation18 Restricted]

Volume [R6632] 1--4

[Consultation 18 Restricted]

Sound recordings

[Consultation90 Open]

Object

[Consultation90 Open]

Volume [R6632] 3

[Consultation 90 Open]

Cartographic material

[Consultation90 Open]

Volume [R6632] 5

[Consultation 90 Open]

Graphic (art)

[Consultation90 Open]

Volume [R6632] 5

[Consultation 90 Open]

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