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File consists of a photograph of the orchestra with their instruments. Sam Lipshitz is in the second row, fourth from left, and Manya Lipshitz is in the third row, third from left.

File consists of a programme in Yiddish with an advertisement for Camp Kindervelt (forerunner of Camp Naivelt) on the back cover.

File consists of a programme for the tenth anniversary banquet, 1946; the text of Sam Lipshitz's speech to the fourth national convention, with correspondence and other documents regarding his remarks in 1947; and a flyer for the organizing committee of the Montreal Jewish Cultural Conference.

File consists of 11 photographic prints showing children's activities and a delegation from Poland.

File consists of two reports by David Kunigis, Director of the children's colony for the camp.

File consists of the programme for the third annual concert in 1931, and a biography of Winchevsky.

File consists of four photographic prints showing Manya Lipshitz as a teacher and May Lipshitz (daughter of Sam and Manya) as a student at the school, as well as scenes during a visit by Paul Robeson.

File consists of pamphlets and newspaper clippings regarding the rearmament of Germany.

File consists of programmes for: the Jewish Folk Choir (including a greeting by Sam Lipshitz); the fourth annual convention of the United Jewish People's Order (including an article by Lipshitz), 1954; and a dramatic pageant to celebrate the tenth anniversary of Israel Independence Day, 1958.

File consists of a press release regarding the new organization, general by-law, policy statement, speeches by Sam Lipshitz (including one for the tenth anniversary), and two photographic prints of an association event.

File consists of correspondence, announcements, and speeches regarding the organization's creation in 1960 and its subsequent development, eulogy to Emil Gartner, former conductor of the Jewish Folk Choir, letters about the Chaim Zhitlovsky Lodge, remarks by Sam Lipshitz upon accepting election as president of the association, and information about meetings and assemblies.

File consists of articles, poems, and photographs on Israel, Maxim Gorki, a biographical note about J.I. Segal by Chava Rosenfarb, and a story on Chanukah by Manya Lipshiptz that were gathered by Samuel Lipshitz in his role as editor of the magazine. Also included is a photograph of Lipshitz, Hy Naistein, and an unidentified man standing at the door to the offices of the New Fraternal Jewish Association.

File consists of letters and announcements of events of the New Fraternal Jewish Association.

File consists of specimen books, promotional material, clippings and three photographs pertaining to the Gold Medal Award presented by the International Typographic Composition Association for work on a Canadian 15-cent postage stamp, a photograph of Sam Lipshitz with pressmen at the company's plant, and documents regarding his membership in the Toronto Typographical Union.

File consists of correspondence regarding "Vochenblatt," including fundraising and articles, Gershman's tours and lectures, a complaint to Gershman regarding his hypocrisy over the situation of poor workers, plans to visit Poland in 1948, income reports for tours in 1948 and 1955, a flyer for Gershman's speech about the growing economic crisis in Canada, and a statement by Gershman at the joint meeting of the National Resident Board and the Toronto Executive Board of the United Jewish People's Order.

File consists of correspondence regarding Sam Lipshitz's participation in the National Executive Committee meeting in May 1944, report on the communist party's nation-wide system of schools, January 1947, correspondence regarding work of the party's Jewish committees, J.B. Salsberg's resolution calling on the party to explore tragic events in Hungary, 1956, and typescript notes for speeches given by Sam Lipshitz to party conventions, including "On some problems confronting our party," 1957. File also includes the souvenir program for the dinner in honour of Tim Buck, King Edward Hotel, Toronto, 12 January 1945, that is signed by many of the members in attendance, including Fred Rose, Tim and Alice Buck, Sam Carr, J.B. Salsberg, and S.B. Ryerson.

File consists of lyrics to a song composed and sung in the camp during the period that the Canadian Communist Party was illegal.

File consists of annotated text of a speech by Sam Lipshitz, "In the footsteps of Russian anti-semitic propaganda," and by Tim Buck, "The future of Palestine and the problem of post-war Jewish resettlement," Toronto, 8 September 1946.

File consists of typescript notes from the speech given by S. Yakir to the Ontario provincial convention regarding those who resigned from the communist party the previous year.

File consists of correspondence, press releases, and clippings regarding the resignation of Sam and Manya Lipshitz from the Canadian communist party, along with J.B. Salsberg, Stewart Smith, and Harry Binder.

File consists of campaign literature for Labor-Progressive Party candidates, including Harry Paikin in Hamilton Centre, Harry Binder in Ottawa West, and Austin Delaney in Vancouver, as well as campaign literature, newspaper clippings, and poll results for communist candidates in Wards 4 and 5 of the municipal election in Toronto on 1 January 1944.

File consists of a letter written by Sam to Manya Lipshitz during his confinement in the jail after the federal government outlawed the communist party in June 1940, as well as newspaper clippings regarding the release of Lipshitz, Tim Buck, and 14 other men from jail.

File consists of correspondence, literature, and newspaper articles regarding the campaigns of J.B. Salsberg, A.A. MacLeod, Sam Carr, Tim Buck, Fred Rose, and Dave Croll (a Liberal and the only non-communist in this group) in the St. Andrew, Spadina, and Trinity ridings for federal and provincial elections.

File consists of notes, campaign literature, receipt books, and a certificate appointing Sam Lipshitz as MacLeod's agent at a polling station.

File consists of promotional literature, letters of support, newspaper articles, and other material for the campaign managed by Sam Lipshitz for Binder, with some documents referring to Tim Buck and Joe Zuken.

File consists of newspaper articles regarding the Liberal Party's election victory.

File consists of promotional literature, newspaper articles, a button, correspondence (including a letter of support by J.B. Salsberg), and speeches for Sam Lipshitz's campaign for Ward 7 in North York.

File consists of letters to and from family, friends, and colleagues, reports, expense accounts, and speeches regarding Samuel Lipshitz's trips to Poland, Paris, and Israel, and the affairs of Jewish organizations including: program of the American Jewish Cultural Conference, 31 October 1947; membership in the American Committee of Jewish Writers, Artists and Scientists, 1947; flyer for the Canadian Federation of Polish Jews, 27 June 1946; speeches on world peace, 1948; and impressions of Israel, 1949.

File consists of correspondence to Sam Lipshitz regarding relief work on behalf of Radom and other centres.

File consists of letters and articles dealing with the trip to Poland, relations with the Canadian Jewish Congress, and relief efforts for Jews in Poland.

File consists of letters regarding arrangements for the trip to Poland and inquiries from various people about their relatives, and contributions by foreign journalists to "Vochenblatt" and "Morning freiheit."

File consists of letters, telegrams, speaking notes, and related documents regarding conditions in Poland, relief efforts for European Jews, work of the Women's Organization on Overseas Relief, providing clothes for survivors, the plight of Jews in concentration camps, plans to start a public campaign in favour of Jewish immigration to Canada, invitation to attend the Russian embassy on the 28th anniversary of the revolution, and speaking engagements in Canada and the United States.

File consists of two bound notebooks kept by Sam Lipshitz during his trip to Poland, with notes on preparations for the trip, departure (including passengers and war brides), the names of Jews looking for relatives in Canada and the United States, events during the war in Chmielnik, Staszow, Lodz, and other Polish communities, exhumation of bodies in Bialystok and district, problem of Jewish identity in Poland, testimony by survivors (including an 11-year-old girl), statistics and demography of Polish Jewry, Provincial Committee in Rychbach, Jewish population in Lower Silesia, problem of returning soldiers, members of the underground who killed Germans, and the situation in London and Berlin.

File consists of a booklet published by the Library of the Polish Embassy in New York containing photographs of pre- and post-war Warsaw that document the destruction of the Polish capital.

File consists of correspondence sent during the trip to Poland in 1945 and Sam's tour of Western Canada in 1946. The letters are in Yiddish, and are accompanied by typescript English translations.

File consists of typescript articles, notes, and correspondence written in Berlin, London, and Poland regarding the journey from Canada to England, Jews in Canada, the United States, and Poland searching for surviving relatives, Sam Lipshitz's speeches on the condition of Jews in Poland, the execution of Paul Hoffman, head of crematoriums in Majdanek.

File consists of documents collected by Sam Lipshitz in preparation for his visit, including a medical note, application for travel, calling cards, and a letter of introduction in Polish. Also included are a report from Warsaw, articles in Yiddish and English regarding his trip, correspondence from family and colleagues (including J.B. Salsberg), articles by Lipshitz about the reports by Dr. Samuel Margoshes concerning the condition of the Jews in Poland, and letters to the editor of "Der tog" in response to Lipshitz's articles about his trip that were published in "Vochenblatt."

File consists of letters regarding "Vochenblatt" (Canadian Jewish weekly), report to the Canadian Jewish Congress on the trip to Poland, aid to Russia, and Polish Jews looking for relatives in Canada and the United States.

File consists of newspaper articles about steps taken by the Central Committee of Jews in Poland to develop plans for the repatriation of Polish Jews, efforts by the Polish government to improve living conditions for Jews, Sam Lipshitz's address to a meeting in Montreal following his trip to Poland, and a critique of Lipshitz's article published in a Polish communist newspaper about the sale of land to American interests by the Israeli government in 1950.

File consists of newspaper articles written by or about Sam Lipshitz regarding the Jewish community in Canada, the need of Poland's Jews for immediate assistance, the new Jewish community in Lower Silesia, rejection of resolutions to keep communists out of leadership positions with Canadian unions, the Warsaw Ghetto uprising, leadership of the Jewish community in Poland, and criticism of the data and reports by Samuel Margoshes and Sigal.

File consists of newspaper articles about Jewish families in Poland, Canada, and the United States looking for survivors of the war, poverty and fear among the Jews in post-war Radom, dissatisfaction at the meagre financial assistance coming from Jews in the United States, Sam Lipshitz's reports from Poland, criticism of the writings of Samuel Margoshes and Sigal after their visit to Poland, destruction of the Warsaw Ghetto by the Nazis, and the impact of post-war politics on Polish Jews. The file also includes correspondence regarding Lipshitz's speaking engagements in Canada and the United States to discuss the conditions faced by Jews in Poland, anti-Semitism, and arrangements for publication of his articles.

File consists of newspaper articles by Sam Lipshitz about the activities of the Central Committee of Polish Jews, expectations of the Jews in the Polish delegation from the Jews in America, conditions in Warsaw, conditions in Lodz Jens during and after Nazi occupation, anti-Semitism in Poland, and Canadian post-war immigration policy.

File consists of newspaper articles about the Warsaw Ghetto uprising, help for Jews in Poland, anti-Semitism, return of Polish Jews from the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, the Central Committee of Polish Jews, criticism by Sam Lipshitz of the report by Samuel Margoshes and L. Siegal, and a critique of Lipshitz's comments concerning Jewish life in Poland by "Dos vort," the newspaper of the Zionist Writers' Movement in Canada.

File consists of newspaper articles written or collected by Sam Lipshitz concerning the problems facing Polish Jews, anti-Semitism in Poland, the World Federation of Trade Unions, a map of crematoriums in Poland, attempts by the United States to provoke Yugoslavia regarding its role in the Soviet bloc, conditions in Radom after most of the Jewish community was removed by the Nazis, efforts by Jews in Canada and the United States to connect with surviving relatives in Poland, and efforts to raise money for a home for Jewish children orphaned in Poland.

File consists of newspaper articles by Sam Lipshitz regarding Jewish culture in post-war Poland, the Pogrom in Keltz, photograph of Lipshitz and H.M. Caiserman while on their visit to Poland, their departure from Poland in February 1946, the Jewish community in Lower Silesia, the report by Lipshitz and Caiserman to the Canadian Jewish Congress, and a letter critical of Lipshitz's report on Poland with his response.

File consists of newspaper articles and correspondence regarding Sam Lipshitz's visit to Poland and the living conditions of Polish Jews, the Central Committee of Polish Jews, and the meeting of the United Nation's Security Council regarding the situation in Greece.

File consists of: a pamphlet by Joseph Tenenbaum, "Let my people in" (New York, 1947), regarding American immigration policy that allows the entry of Nazis but not Jewish refugees; brochure for the American Federation of Polish Jews; letters regarding conference proceedings; flyers, speeches, and newspaper articles regarding the status of Jews in the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, meeting in Montreal to protest pogroms against Jews in Poland, Zionism, the future of Palestine and post-war Jewish resettlement (including an article by J.B. Salsberg and an address by Tim Buck of the Labour Progressive Party), the United Jewish Peoples Order, and the division of India.

File consists of programs, correspondence, posters, and notes concerning speaking engagements in Canada and the United States where Sam Lipshitz discussed his visit to Poland, the impact of Nazi occupation upon various communities (particularly Radom), and efforts by Jews in Poland, Canada, and the United States to find surviving relatives.

File consists of magazines and brochures containing articles by Sam Lipshitz on Jews he met in Poland, culture and democratic change in Poland, and the 40th anniversary of the Mozirer Sick Benefit Society, as well as a program where Lipshitz and H.M. Caiserman spoke about their trip to Poland and a history of Majdanek.

File consists of letter of introduction from Tim Buck, General Secretary of the Labor-Progressive Party, to European and Israeli counterparts, invitation to attend the meeting of the Central Committee of Jews in Poland, a letter from J.B. Salsberg regarding a Jewish girl brought up by a Catholic family in Poland whose biological mother desires that her daughter be brought out of Poland, a poster for speech in Vancouver on Israel and the Cold War by Sam Lipshitz, newspaper articles regarding Lipshitz's visit to Poland and Israel to attend communist meetings, closure of a Jewish community centre and school in Montreal by police, economic and cultural growth of Jewish communities in Romania, the Canadian Peace Congress at Toronto's Maple Leaf Gardens in 1950, the status of Yiddish in Israel, warnings about rebuilding West Germany's military weapons industry, conditions in post-war London, and speeches across Canada regarding his recent trip to Poland, and notes for a speech on the sixth anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto uprising. See also 2003-061/005 (01) for records relating to this trip.

File consists of newspaper articles celebrating the 70th birthday of Joseph Stalin.

File consists of a portfolio containing programs for the convention and the Lower Silesia Jewish Theatre 1949-1950 season, recent issues of the magazines "Solidarnosc [Solidarity]", "Unzer buletin [Our bulletin]," and "Di Yidishe shriftn," as well as reports of the Jewish Cultural Society for 1948 and 1949. See also 2003-061/004 (10) for records relating to this visit to Poland and Israel.

File consists of correspondence, invitations to meetings, minutes and resolutions regarding the Congress's post-war activities and Sam Lipshitz's activities as a speaker and author on Jewish issues, as well as pamphlets dealing with the immigration of Jewish refugees to Canada.

File consists of minutes of meetings of the national and regional executives, lists of officers, and correspondence regarding Congress activities, the decision to exclude left-wing orgranizations from the Congress, the issue of Jewish refugees, and a paper on the Jewish community in Canada by Saul Hayes, National Director of the Congress.

File consists of notices of meetings, minutes, and correspondence regarding Congress activities and articles written by Sam Lipshitz.