Canadian Jewish Casualties in the Armed Forces
Our data on Canadian Jewish casualties in the Canadian Armed
Forces include servicemen who died while serving in World War I,
World War II, and the Korean War. In addition to the date of death
and place of burial, these records often include additional
biographical details such as war stories and photographs.
This information is now available through the Canadian Jewish
Heritage Network's Family History
database.
To view all 574 records, link here.
To search the database by name, cemetery, or country, link here. To ensure that only results
pertaining to casualties are retrieved, check the box named
"Canadian Jewish Servicemen Casualties (1914-1951)" in addition to
entering your search terms.
The information in this database was compiled and assembled by
Hélène Vallée, Archives Assistant at Canadian Jewish Congress
Charities Committee National Archives, with the help of Archives
volunteers Abe Bonder and Willie Glaser in Montreal, and Gordon
Jenkins in Ottawa. Additional technical assistance was provided by
Janice Rosen, CJCCCNA Archives Director, and Shirley Brodt (CJCCC
Publications Department). The idea for the project originated with
Larry G. Rosenthal of Montreal and Ron Singer, then-Director of
Communications for the Canadian Jewish
Congress national office in Ottawa. Sources for this
information include the Archives' CJC War Efforts Department
chaplaincy records, series DA 18, Canadian Jews in World War
II, compiled by David Rome for Canadian Jewish Congress, 1947;
The British Jewry Book of Honour, published in 1926;
The Jew in Canada, by A. D. Hart, Jewish Publication
Society, Montreal/ Toronto, 1926; as well as these three web sites:
the Commonwealth War Grave Commission (CWGC), the
Canadian Virtual War Memorial, and Soldiers of the First World War (Library and
Archives Canada).