NACHSHEN FAMILY CIRCLE ARCHIVES
OVERVIEW
1 General Archive
2 Genealogical Research
3 Notes of Interviews with Senior Family Members
4 Moishe Nachshen - Original Documents
5 Sarah Nachshen - Original Documents
6 Jack Nachshen - Original Documents
7 Polly Nachshen - Original Documents
8 Sam Nachshen - Original Documents
9 Photographs
Located in the offices of Gary Nachshen:
Stikeman Elliott
Commerce Court West
199 Bay Street, 55th Floor
Toronto, Ontario M5L 1B9
(NB: The archives will move to their rightful home when I retire back to Montreal in 20 years or so.)
1. GENERAL ARCHIVE INDEX
- Jack Nachshen calling card, Kishinev, early 1920s (photocopy)
- Jack Nachshen Cloth Hat, Cap and Millinery Workers' International Union handbook, Montreal, January 1929 (extracts - photocopy)
- Letter from Montreal Tramway regarding Jack Nachshen streetcar injury, September 21, 1946 (photocopy)
- Letter from Montreal Tramway regarding medical examination for same, September 27, 1946 (photocopy)
- Letter from Montreal Tramway regarding settlement for $700 of same, October 17, 1946 (photocopy)
- Letter from U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service temporarily excluding Jack Nachshen from admission to U.S., September 13, 1951 (photocopy)
- Letter from INS permanently excluding Jack Nachshen from admission to U.S., April 22, 1952 (photocopy)
- Report on May 24, 1964 90th birthday party for Zaida Moishe and establishment of Nachshen family circle prepared by Issie Nachshen
- - Note that Zaida Moishe's passport indicated that he was born on May 15, 1872…
- Newspaper report on Zaida Moishe's 90th birthday (in Yiddish - translation to follow)
- Jack Nachshen Canadian citizenship card, July 29, 1965 (photocopy)
- Letter, November 4, 1965 (photocopy) (in Yiddish - translation to follow)
- Newspaper article, September 11, 1966 (photocopy) (in Yiddish - translation to follow)
- Jewish Daily Eagle (Montreal), March 1, 1968, article on death of Zaida Moishe (photocopy) (in Yiddish - translation to follow)
- Issie Nachshen, My Grandfather - Moishe Nachshen, March 1, 1968
- Letter from INS temporarily excluding Jack Nachshen from admission to U.S., October 20, 1969 (photocopy)
- Newspaper article about Avrum Nachshen, 1971 ((photocopy) (in Yiddish - translation to follow)
- NFC executive meeting minutes (no date), prepared by Tanya Clement
- NFC meeting minutes, January 7, 1979
- Issie Nachshen, The Family, January 8, 1979
- NFC meeting minutes, April 14, 1979
- Report on April 14, 1979 NFC meeting, April 18, 1979, prepared by Issie Nachshen
- Letter from N. Shemen, June 4, 1979 (in Yiddish - translation to follow)
- Report on August 11, 1979 NFC meeting, prepared by Issie Nachshen
- NFC meeting minutes, February 16, 1981, prepared by Bess Goldman
- NFC meeting minutes, December 6, 1981, prepared by Issue Nachshen
- NFC (Israeli branch) meeting minutes, December 1981
- NFC meeting minutes, April 12, 1982, prepared by Issie Nachshen
- Notes for organization of 1st family seder, 1982-83
- Contract dated February 21, 1983 for 1st family seder at King David Residential Hotel
- Letter from Peter Clement to George Nashen, February 27,1983
- Invitation to 1st family seder, March 1983
- Letter from Peter Clement to George Nashen, March 3, 1983
- Letter from Wendy and Jack Cohen to Issie and Florence Nachshen, April 17, 1983
- Letter from Bess and Marvin Goldman to Issie and Florence Nachshen, April 19, 1983
- Canadian Jewish News, article on 1st family seder, April 21, 1983
- Issie Nachshen, "Our Family Foundation", The Suburban, April 27, 1983
- Letter from Kate Brecher to Issie Nachshen, August 15, 1983.
- Letter from Bess Goldman to Issie and Florence Nachshen, August 22, 1983
- Article on Avrum Nachshen, UJPO News, September 1983, submitted by Issie Nachshen
- Letter from Issie Nachshen to Sam Nachshen with attached article on Nachshen Ben Aminadav, December 13, 1983
- Invitation to 2nd family seder, March 9, 1984
- Letter from Wendy and Jack Cohen to Florence and Issie Nachshen, April 1984
- Helen Zoffer, At the Seder of the Nachshen Family Clan (poem), April 15, 1984
- Photo of Glenn Nashen, report on Bialik Gala Reunion, Canadian Jewish News, October 25, 1984
- NFC meeting minutes, October 10, 1984, prepared by Issie Nachshen
- Helen Zoffer, My Pesach (poem)
- Materials for 3rd family seder, April 1985
- NFC meeting minutes, September 21, 1985, prepared by Issie Nachshen
- Letter from Peter Clement to Issie Nachshen, January 27, 1986
- NFC meeting minutes, February 8, 1986
- Letter from Peter Clement to Issie Nachshen, February 26, 1986
- Materials for 4th family seder, April 1986
- Daniel Nachshen memorial materials, 1986-87
- Materials for 6th family seder, April 1989
- N.B. Post-1989 materials still being catalogued.
2. GENEALOGICAL RESEARCH
- Letter from Brian Nachshen to Hebrew Union College, February 18, 1992
- Letter from Brian Nachshen to University of Judaism Library, February 18, 1992
- Letter from Brian Nachshen to Canadian Jewish Congress, February 18, 1992
- Letter from Hebrew Union College to Brian Nachshen, February 19, 1992
- Letter from University of Judaism to Brian Nachshen, February 19, 1992
- Letter from Canadian Jewish Congress to Brian Nachshen, February 19, 1992
- Letter from Brian Nachshen to Mormon Church, February 23, 1992
- Letter from Jewish Historical Society of Western Canada to Brian Nachshen, with maps, information on Pogrebishche, Skvira, and Zguritsa, and extract from book Wooden Synagogues (Warsaw,1959), February 24, 1992
- Letter from Mormon Church to Brian Nachshen, with attachments, March 10, 1992
- Letter from Central Archives for the History of the Jewish People to Brian Nachshen, April 5, 1992
- Letter from Chester Cohen to Brian Nachshen, with map and extracts from book Shtetl Finder (Los Angeles, 1980) (no date)
- Letter from YIVO Institute for Jewish Research to Brian Nachshen, with attachment, April 3, 1993
- Extracts from www.jewishgen.org website, May 1997
- Letter from Miriam Weiner to Gary Nachshen, with attachments, July 28, 1997
- Materials on Pier 21, Halifax
- Various Canadian Jewish News articles
- Materials on Canadian National Archives
- Various family trees
- Listing of family members' dates of birth and death, places of birth, marriage, and death
- Correspondence with Simon Ainley, Gerald Nachshen, Bernie Nachshen, Sandra Nachshen Zwickel, Elaine Nachshen, and Rupert Swyer regarding possible links between Canadian, U.K. and U.S. Nachshens, 1997-2000.
3. NOTES OF INTERVIEWS WITH SENIOR FAMILY MEMBERS
- Interview of Jack Nachshen by Gary Nachshen, mid-1970s.
- Interviews of Jack Nachshen by Gary Nachshen and Glenn Nashen, 1989.
- Interview of Kate Brecher by Gary Nachshen, March 19, 2000.
4. MOISHE NACHSHEN - ORIGINAL DOCUMENTS
- Soviet passport, issued in Kharkov on April 30, 1927 in Russian, Ukrainian, and French, containing Latvian, German, French and Canadian visas.
- Canadian immigration identification card (third class), containing medical examination stamp (June 2, 1927 aboard La Bourdonnais) and civil examination stamp (June 5, 1927 in Halifax).
- Canadian elector card, March 31, 1936.
- Canadian elector registration certificate (Cartier riding), August 19, 1940.
- Canadian passport, issued on October 15, 1940, containing fingerprint and indication of May 15, 1872 as birthdate.
- Postcard written by Zaida Moishe in Yiddish, 1967 (with translation by Issie Nachshen).
- Jewish Daily Eagle (Montreal), March 1, 1968, reporting his passing (in Yiddish).
5. SARAH NACHSHEN - ORIGINAL DOCUMENTS
- Soviet passport, issued in Kharkov on April 30, 1927 in Russian, Ukrainian and French, containing Latvian, German, French, and Canadian visas.
- - Departure for Canada was from Bordeaux on May 26, 1927.
- - Tanya was co-listed on passport as 9 years old, not 13 years old, so she could get a half-price ticket…
- Canadian immigration identification card (third class), containing medical examination stamp (June 2, 1927 aboard La Bourdonnais) and civil examination stamp (June 5, 1927 in Halifax).
- Canadian naturalization certificate, June 24, 1936.
- Canadian elector registration certificate (Cartier riding), August 19, 1940.
6. JACK NACHSHEN - ORIGINAL DOCUMENTS
- Cloth Hat, Cap and Millinery Workers' International Union handbook, Montreal, January 1929
- Canadian naturalization certificate, December 2, 1929
- Marriage contract, March 26, 1931
- Ketubah, April 17, 1931
- Letter from Montreal Tramway regarding streetcar injury, September 21, 1946
- Letter from Montreal Tramway regarding medical examination for same, September 27, 1946
- Letter from Montreal Tramway regarding settlement for $700 of same, October 17, 1946
- 1946 Federal income tax notice of assessment, December 3, 1949
- Letter from U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service temporarily excluding Jack Nachshen from admission to U.S., September 13, 1951
- Letter from INS permanently excluding Jack Nachshen from admission to U.S., April 22, 1952
- Citizenship card, July 29, 1965
- Expo 67 passport
- Letter from INS temporarily excluding Jack Nachshen from admission to U.S., October 20, 1969.
- Itinerary for trip to USSR and France, September 1-October 16, 1971
- Letter from Kishinev and postcards from Kishinev, Leningrad, and Limoges.
- Extract from Register of civil status relating to April 17, 1931 wedding at Temple Solomon before Rabbi S. Herschorn, June 8, 1972.
- J. Nachshen Furs balance sheets, 1970 and 1972.
- Canadian passport containing Israeli entries.
- Letters from Mayor Jean Drapeau and Premier René Lévesque on 50th wedding anniversary, April 1981.
- Various address books, including one containing 1938 Canadian elector card.
- Pocket prayer book, containing obituaries for Muttel, Avrum and Grisha and various Yahrtzeit dates.
- Certificate from Prime Minister brian Mulroney on 60th wedding anniversary, 1991.
- Certificate from Prime Minister Jean Chretien on 95th birthday, 1995.
7. POLLY NACHSHEN - ORIGINAL DOCUMENTS
- Romanian passport, issued in Bucharest on March 8, 1927 in Romanian and French, containing Polish, German and Canadian visas.
- - Departure for Canada was from Hamburg.
- Intourist itinerary in Kishinev, July 15-24, 1962.
- Montreal Star, September 20, 1962 social column
- - Contained following entry: "Mrs. Jack Nachshen has returned home after spending the summer travelling in Europe."
- Expo 67 passport.
- Canadian citizenship certificate, September 8, 1972.
- Various Canadian passports, including one containing 1962 Soviet visa.
8. SAM NACHSHEN - ORIGINAL DOCUMENTS
NB: Materials still being catalogued.
9. PHOTOGRAPHS
NB: Photos still being catalogued.