Kriger Family fonds

Fonds consists of: A newspaper article on Diane Kriger winning a 1950's Ottawa Jewish Bulletin "Beautiful Baby" contest; A ritual shoichet knife used by Max Movshovitz when he was a shoichet in Carleton Place; Two email printouts discussing Kriger family history - 2011/2012; A letter in Yiddish along with its translation. The letter was used to wrap up the shoichet knife. It asks for people to come hear a man who witnessed first hand the horrors of a Russian death camp - 1944; Maps, tickets and other souvenirs from Maynard and Shirley from their trip to the USSR - 1989; A prayer book given as a Bar Mitzvah gift to Akiva Kriger or Maynard Kriger. The book seller is Tzvi Gozowitz (Gosewitz). - 1934 or 1937 Two Ottawa Kosher Catering seals A blue Hillel Academy sweater owned by David Kriger c.1968 6 pins owned by Dora Lepidus Kriger for various Jewish organizations. Jewih Hospital of Hope - Life Member Womens War Work - CRCS Mizrachi Hapoel Hamizrachi - Mother in Israel Mizrachi Hapoel Hamizrachi - Life Member Hadassah Wizo 40 years Hadassah Wizo MOA Ma' Alot Slide rule owned by Akiva Kriger Akiva Kriger and his wife Shirley Kriger (nee Shirley Movshovitz) grew up in Carleton Place and Brockville in the Ottawa Valley. In 1989, about a month before the fall of the Berlin Wall, they and another couple, Morton Taller and Sally Taller, took a trip to the USSR and wrote a lengthy article about it for the Ottawa Jewish Bulletin. Akiva and Shirley had a son, David Kriger (b. 1956), who was married to Susan Kriger (nee Susan Ain). Shirley's father Max Movshovitz (b. Yakobovi, Lithuania ca. 1887 - d. 1981) was a merchant in Carleton Place. Max and his wife (b. Gorzdh, Lithuania) would get their kosher meat from Ottawa and it would be delivered by bus or by train. The one exception was poultry which Max slaughtered himself (the Archives has his shoichet knife). This is how it was up until about the 1940's. Max has a shoichet's certificate (now lost) in Yiddish which he received from his local yeshiva in Lithuania some time before he came to North America through Ellis Island ca. 1910. The Movshovitz's lived in Carleton Place from 1917-1976.