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Declaration of Passenger to Canada

Name:  Spegelman, Wolf
Age: 27
Date of Sailing: June 7, 1921
Ship:  SS Empress (either the Empress of France, which sailed from Liverpool)
Present occupation: Journalist
Intended Occupation: Journalism
Birthplace: Poland
Citizenship: Polish
Object in going to Canada: Journalistic work visit only
Do you intend to remain in Canada permanently: No
Money in possession belonging to passenger about 300 dollars
I am aware that I must have on my arrival in Canada the sum of: $250
Can you read?: Yes
What language: English
By whom was your passage paid? By my bureau
Destined to: Montreal, Windsor Hotel
Contact: Grossman in London
Signed: Wolf Spiegelman

Declaration of Intention of Marriage, State of Rhode Island, November 22, 1924.
(Note: birthplaces of both William Z. Spiegelman and Dora Moreiss listed as "Poland Russia.")

Wedding announcement from Mrs. J Morris [sic], November 29, 1924.

Return of A Marriage, State of Rhode Island, 5 December 1924.

Happy New Year 1926 from Mr. & Mrs. Wm. Z. Spiegelman and Daughter (Ruth Joy Spiegelman).

Masthead of the Jewish Daily Bulletin circa 1927.

Third from left, standing: acting as toastmaster, or at least addressing a gathering. Date and occasion unknown. Perhaps a meeting of the American Zionist Guild.

Second from the right, at meeting of unknown organization. Possibly the Jewish National Fund of America? If so, circa 1930s.

Third from right, at same occasion as above.

Official letterhead circa 1931 of Who's Who in American Jewry, of which WZS was the editor between 1926 and 1932.

Fourth from right, February 11, 1934, Jewish-American Forward.

(Note: caption says: "A famous musician is honored for his protest against the persecution of Jews in Hitler's Germany. The ceremony in the Astor Hotel, New York, as Arturo Toscanini, the great Italian conductor, was presented with a certificate if inscription in the Golden Book of the Jewish National Fund. Left to right: Toscanini, Morris Rothenberg, President of the Zionist Organization of America; B. Shelvin, W. Z. Spiegelman, Rabbi Wolf Gold, Mrs. Rose Halpern, President of Hadassah, Dr. Israel Goldstein, President of the Jewish National Fund of America, and L. Glantz.")

Petition for citizenship, March 21, 1934.

William Z. Spiegelman's Certificate of Citizenship, "to be given to the person naturalized," June 26, 1934. Note: under "race" is says "Hebrew," and under "former nationality" it says "Russian."

Naturalization card, dated June 26, 1934.

Draft card, circa 1942.

Photostat of certificate from the cemetery in which the remains of William Z. Spiegelman were buried in May 1950.

From the Golden Book of the National Jewish National Fund. In loving memory of William Zev Spiegelman, one of the initiators of Sefer Hamedinah, inscribed by Dora M. Spiegelman, Ruth S. Lubin, Judith M. Spiegelman, David E. Spiegelman, Brooklyn, N.Y. [Signed by] Dr. A Grauott[, on behalf of] Keren Kayemeth Leisrael.

Nineteen trees planted In Israel "In memory of William Z. Spiegelman, died May 14, 1949, planted by Neighbors of East 9th Street, Brooklyn, N.Y."

David Spiegelman at his father's gravesite in Israel, July 1984.