http://www.rssboard.org/rss-specification 720 http://norton.wrhs.org/collections/search?docsPerPage%3D100;f36-subject%3DWorld%20War,%201939-1945. Results for your query: docsPerPage=100;f36-subject=World War, 1939-1945. Tue, 28 Jul 2020 12:00:00 GMT http://norton.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS5404.xml The Kol Israel Foundation is an organization of Holocaust survivors resident in Cleveland. It was founded in 1959 to represent area Holocaust survivors while helping secure special education, guidance, vocational training, social and economic adjustment for immigrants settling in Greater Cleveland. A Second Generation group sponsors educational workshops while the foundation sponsors annual Holocaust commemoration events at different synagogues throughout the city. This collection consists of agendas, meeting minutes, bank statements, booklets, correspondence, learning packet, letterhead, lists, newsletters, newspaper clippings, notes, programs, reports, applications, thank you letters, autographs, certificates, notices, itinerary, mission statements, news releases, photographs, raffle tickets, tables, and scrapbooks. http://norton.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS5404.xml Sun, 01 Jan 2017 12:00:00 GMT http://norton.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS4980.xml Sigmund H. Wojcik (b. 1917 was the son of Polish immigrants. He grew up in the Tremont area of Cleveland, Ohio, and graduated from Lincoln High School in June of 1935. Wojcik joined the Naval Reserve at 17 and re-enlisted in the Navy in 1940 after receiving his draft card. He served first on the USS Wilmington, and then on the USS Polaris, a Navy supply ship. While on board the Polaris, Wojcik served in the Atlantic, the Mediterranean, and the Pacific, and held the position of Chief Boatswain's Mate. He met Mike Ruby on board, and the two became fast friends and roommates. In September of 1945, after the end of the war, he received his honorable discharge and returned to the Cleveland area. Mike A. Ruby (b. June 12, 1918) was born in Campbell, Ohio, and moved to Cleveland shortly after. His family moved to Parma before he was enrolled in junior high school. Always enjoying a fascination for the water, Ruby joined the Naval Reserve at 17 and served in the United States Navy during World War II on board the USS... http://norton.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS4980.xml Wed, 01 Jan 2014 12:00:00 GMT http://norton.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS4998.xml William Lipman was born in 1895 in Poland. He immigrated to Cleveland, Ohio, in 1910 and married Gertrude, nee Kornreich, (b. Jan. 30, 1903) on Apr. 6, 1924. Lipman owned Bill's Clothing and Furnishings, with two locations at St. Clair and East 152nd, and 618 East 185th Streets, Cleveland. Lipman died in Cleveland on May 10, 1981. The collection consists of correspondence between the Lipman family in Cleveland and relatives in Poland, France, Israel, and Japan during World War II and after. Much of the correspondence relates to Lipman's efforts to secure visas for his mother and siblings to emigrate from Nazi Poland. http://norton.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS4998.xml Wed, 01 Jan 2014 12:00:00 GMT http://norton.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS3000.xml Troop A was founded in Cleveland, Ohio, in 1877 as an independent military unit to defend against strikers and unruly mobs. It affiliated with the Ohio National Guard in 1877, formed part of the 1st Ohio Volunteer Cavalry in 1898, was absorbed into the 135th Field Artillery in 1918, and reorganized in 1920 as Troop A of the 107th Cavalry Regiment of the Ohio National Guard. It became part of the 107th Armored Cavalry Regiment in 1947. The Cleveland Gatling Gun Battery was also founded in 1877 to quell labor violence. It disbanded by 1905. The collection consists of correspondence, minutes, invoices, vouchers, financial statements and reports, ledger sheets, legal documents and briefs, newspaper clippings, blueprints, and maps of the 1st Cleveland Cavalry (Troop A); constitution, by-laws, minutes, financial accounts, rosters, booklets of memoranda and statistical information, and other materials of the Cleveland Gatling Gun Battery; and records of the Troop A Armory Company, the Cavalry Riding Academy, and... http://norton.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS3000.xml Wed, 01 Jan 2014 12:00:00 GMT