Administrative History:
Hadassah is the leading Jewish women’s organization in Canada. Founded in 1917 in Montreal, its major purpose is fundraising, so as to aid needy people in their Israeli institutions as well as Canadian Jewish women and the people of Israel who require moral or material support. Their causes include Youth Aliyah, Hebrew University, agricultural schools, day cares, youth villages, schools and hospitals, and Magen David Adom. Hadassah also promotes Jewish culture in Canada, runs educational and cultural programs, and leads tours to Israel.

Custodial History :
Addition was made to the collection in September 2006.

Scope and Content:
Conference proceedings. Educational and organizational publications, Orah magazine (1972-1980, with gaps), newspapers. Many clippings on Hadassah conventions and activities.

Biographical Sketch:
Alfred Hans-Dieter Haiblen was born in Germany in July 1923. In January 1939 he came from Cologne to England, where he was interned before being sent to Canada in June 1940. He was mainly in Farnham Camp (Camp “A”), in Quebec, after a brief period in Monteith (Camp “Q”), a northern Ontario prison farm camp. After his release one and a half years later, in January 1942, he went to McGill University and excelled in his studies. He graduated in electrical engineering and moved to Toronto to work in the steel wire business, mostly on behalf of a Luxembourg-based steel company. In 1969 he became an employee of this steel company and was moved to New York City, commuting between Toronto and New York City for seven years before moving there permanently in 1976.

Biographical Sketch:
Alan Handel is a filmmaker, who produced the Voices of Survival documentary on the Holocaust. This 1989 film used interview tapes compiled by the Canadian Jewish Congress Holocaust Documentation Project (1981-1984).

Scope and Content:
Script. Interview transcripts. Research notes. Documentation. Holocaust photos copied from other archives (B and W 8x10).

Notes:
Alpha-Numeric Designation: P91/20.
Related Materials: DA 16 (HDP Project); SCAT (HDP tapes, (75 interviews on 165 tapes), SV video Voices of Survival).

Biographical Sketch:
Born on May 28, 1906, Saul Hayes graduated in law from McGill University in 1932. He began working with the United Jewish Relief Agencies of Canada (UJRA) in 1938 and was director of the agency from 1940. In 1942 he became executive director of Canadian Jewish Congress, to which he was devoted even in his retirement years, until his death in 1980. During his tenure as director of CJC, Hayes was a representative of the United Jewry Delegations, Second Conference of UNRRA, 1944; the San Francisco Conference on International Security, 1945; and the Paris Conference on Peace Treaties, 1946. His wife, Beatrice Hayes, was an artist as well as a community worker. She died in 1998. Marilyn was their only child.

Custodial History:
Donated by Marilyn Hayes. Additions donated in May 1998 at the time of the sale of the Hayes house following the death of Beatrice Hayes. Marilyn Hayes still has poems and other writings by B. Hayes, as well as Jewish fraternity memorabilia. She may donate additions later.

Biographical Sketch:
Born in 1885, Abraham Heaps was one of Canada’s best known labour leaders and former CCF Member of Parliament; in Parliament he helped refugees from Nazi persecution to acquire asylum in Canada; was member of Jewish Immigrant Aid Services Board of Directors and chairman of its Committee on Publicity and Public Relations. He died in 1954.

Scope and Content:
Biographical press clippings. House of Commons Debates. Correspondence about refugees, Zionism, antisemitism.

Notes:
Restrictions: 1 correspondence file.

Administrative History:
The Hebrew Free Loan Association was established in 1911. Its aim is to provide interest-free loans to the needy of Montreal’s Jewish community. All monies are raised through donations, bequests, legacies and membership dues - there is no outside funding. It has helped over 80,000 people and was put to use especiallyduring the Depression, when it enabled many Jews to survive and attain self-sufficiency. Any member of the Jewish community, whether a member of HFLA or not, is eligible for loans.

Scope and Content:
Inaugural meeting minutes, 1911 (2 photocopies). Annual reports (1936-1983, with gaps). Correspondence. Brochures. Pamphlets. Publications. Clippings.

Administrative History:
The Hebrew Old People’s and Sheltering Home was founded in 1910 in Montreal. It was an old people’s home (originally housing orphans as well), with certain additional services provided (medical, dental, recreational, social, religious, etc.). It amalgamated with the Steinhouse/Nachlass Zkainim Home in 1927. Located for 35 years on Esplanade Avenue, the Home later became Maimonides Hospital (1964) and relocated to Cote St. Luc.

Scope and Content:
Amalgamation agreement between HOPSH and Steinhouse/Nachlass Zkainim Home (1927). Annual reports (1925-1933, 1941, 1945, 1958). Financial documents. Board member lists (1917-1941). Publications. Correspondence (1924-1930). Clippings.

Notes:
Finding Aid: “Federation.”
Related Materials: Maimonides Hospital reference files also Federation of Jewish Philanthropies collection, correspondence (MB 1, series B and C).

Administrative History:
Founded in Montreal in 1892, the Association was the first mutual aid group of its kind in the city. Its aims were to provide free medical care, pensions for invalids, mortuary benefits and cemetery plots. Its members also provided visits to the sick, help to the bereaved, and donations to various charities (both local and for Israel). The HSBA was made redundant by Medicare, pensions, etc., and ceased its active work in 1989.

Scope and Content:
Constitution (original & photocopies, 1892, y) and 1892 charters. By-laws. Minutes (1941-1979 with gaps, y). Minutes (1978-1989 with gaps, e). Financial statements (1936-1938, 1946-1978 with gaps, 1966-1986 with gaps). Membership lists (1925-1933, y; 1936-1938, e; 1988). Cemetery plot sales and deeds (1923-1978) and lists of reserved HSBA cemetery plots. Cemetery account book (1927-1950). Account book. Registers of deaths (1943-88). Books of forms filled out on aid recipients (1892-1945, y). Baron de Hirsch Cemetery Inc. Investment Committee & Budget Committee minutes.

Biographical Sketch:
Jules Helbronner was an Alsatian Jew who came to Canada in 1874; student of economic problems; journalist; launched the weekly Le Prix Courant with a friend in 1887; joined French daily La Presse; became its editor-in-chief; defended his fellow Jews against antisemitic attacks during the Dreyfus trial.

Scope and Content:
Photocopies of biographical press clippings, also on labour, antisemitism. Photocopy of Rapport sur la Section d’Economie sociale de l’Exposition universelle international de 1889 à Paris (1890). Photocopy of Rapport entre le Capital et le Travail au Canada (1889).

Notes:
Language: French and English.
Related Materials: D. Rome, volume on Helbronner in Canadian Jewish Archives, new series, volume 11.

Biographical Sketch:
Eric Helfield: Born in 1931, he is a barrister, Quebec; former Cote St. Luc City Councillor. Tilya: Born in 1934, she is a writer, printmaker, artist.

Scope and Content:
Biographical press clippings, including politics. Election flyers and instructions. Vernissage invitations. Sample New Year cards made by Tilya Helfield. Published articles about the Jews in China and India. Mildred Ellis’s MacDonald College 1924 scrapbook.

Notes:
Related Materials: Tilya Helfield taped interview.

Biographical Sketch:
Also known to Montreal Jews as the founder of the city's first Jewish library, Harry Hershman, as the representative of the People's Relief Committee, was a prominent member of the Jewish War Orphans Committee of Canada. This group headed by Lillian Freiman, settled 150 Ukrainian war orphans in Canadian homes in 1921. Hershman participated in planning the campaign, worked in the Polish Ukraine to bring over the children, and followed up on their adjustment after their arrival.

Scope and Content:
Contains personal case files on 128 of the orphans. Each file includes adoption and personal information forms, and often has New Years cards and postcards. Many also contain reports and correspondence from the children, or by others concerning their placement and health and welfare. Some of the files have photos of the orphans.

Notes:
Alpha-Numeric Designation: P84/4.
Restrictions: The case files are semi-restricted.
Related Materials: CJC chronological files. Group photo in PC 1, also Dr. J. Leavitt collection group photos and interview tape (1990). See also H. Hershman personalia file.
General Note: Many of the glass negatives of the photos are damaged.

Biographical Sketch:
Born in 1945, Ken Hertz was a poet, author and publisher in Montreal. Afflicted with Parkinson’s disease, Hertz and his supporters spent the last ten years of his life fighting for home care under the Quebec medicare system. He died in 1996.

Scope and Content:
Documentation includes correspondence and background materials about Parkinson’s disease and struggle for home care, correspondence from friends and supporters, papers relating to publishing projects, as well as clippings about Hertz and his cause. Artifacts include items adapted for Hertz’s condition. Also cassette tapes of interviews, fundraising video. There are several artifacts and six photos.

Biographical Sketch:
Born in Bagdad in 1953, Edward Hillel is a professional photographer. He is the author of The Main, a book of photographs and descriptions of contemporary life in Montreal’s St. Louis district.

Scope and Content:
Biographical press clippings. Correspondence about the funding of The Main. Photocopies of photos from the book as well as reviews. Proposal of a book on the Diaspora.

Notes:
Related Materials: Photos in book Les Pierres qui Parlent with text by Jacques Langlais and David Rome - in library collection.

Biographical Sketch:
Phil Himes was born in 1914 to a poor family in Montreal. He began his working life in 1928, at age 14, as a delivery boy and sweeper, later going on to be a salesman, and from the 1940s the owner of a men’s clothing manufacturing firm. Phil Himes Manufacturing sold to major and minor Canadian department stores in both large cities and small towns as well as to the United States, with Mr. Himes doing much of the associated traveling himself. He closed the company in the early 1990s and died in 1998. His son Mel obtained a doctorate in Political Science from McGill University and taught this subject at Dawson College, Montreal, until his retirement circa 2008. He prepared this book for his father and other family members at the time of his father’s retirement.

Custodial History:
The collection was donated by Phil Himes’ son, Dr. Mel Himes, on July 21, 2008.

Administrative History:
The Canadian Histadrut campaign started its activities in 1924 as an affiliate of the National Committee for Labor Israel (American Histadrut Campaign). In February 1942, the National Canadian Histadrut Convention took place in Montreal, at which time application was made for a charter from the Canadian government. In February 1943, the charter was granted. In recent years, the main objective of the Canadian Association for Labor Israel has been the raising of funds to assist Histadrut in Israel in its rehabilitation programs and the settling and integration of the newly arrived immigrants in Israel. The funds collected meet the needs of the many newcomers to Israel, from Africa, Asia and the former Soviet Union. As the majority of the immigrants to Israel since 1945 have arrived with little or no material assets, it devolves upon the people of Israel to see that they are properly received; that their medical needs are looked after; that suitable occupations and trades are found for all able-bodied males and females; that they receive the necessary training and schooling to become absorbed into the economy of the country; and that education and training be provided for growing adolescents and skilled adults.

Biographical Sketch:
Clara Hoffer is the daughter of Israel Hoffer, one of the founders of the Jewish farming colony of Sonnenfeld, Saskatchewan. Her book, Land of Hope, is a fictionalized biography of her father.

Scope and Content:
Scrapbook of Land of Hope in serialized form as published in The Western Producer. Correspondence about Land of Hope.

Notes:
Related Materials: Jewish Colonization Association collection.

Biographical Sketch:
William Hyman, in his lifetime the most prominent resident of the Gaspé Coast, was born in Russia in 1807 and settled in Gaspé in 1843. He established one of the largest fishing industries on the Atlantic coast, at Grande Grève. Under his able management, the business was so prosperous that it became one of the largest concerns of its kind in Canada. He was one of the first to develop the codfish industry in this country. Mr. Hyman took an active interest in public affairs in Gaspé, and early in his residence there he was appointed justice of the peace and magistrate. When the Township of Cape Rosier was incorporated in 1858, Mr. Hyman was elected its first mayor, and he continued to occupy this civic chair without interruption until his death on December 8, 1882, at his winter residence in Montreal.

Custodial History:
The collection was donated by Mr. Roch Samson from Parks Canada.