Winnipeg, late 1950s

Key to photo:

Left to right (on left side of door): Maishel Globerman, my maternal grandfather; Pearl (Thompson) Waldman (seated, my father's sister; Mike Kaufmann, my father's brother-in-law; Morley Waldman, husband of Pearl; Mrs. Antonia Kaufmann, Mike's mother; Nina (Globerman) Thompson (now Chisvin), my mother ... and incidentally, the only living person in the photo); Mrs. Resnick and Mrs. Ross, twin sisters; Manuel Thompson, my father (no hat); Joe Resnick, husband of one of the twins and son of my grandmother CLara's sister Becky (Myerovitch, Resnick, Thompson) from her first marriage).

Right side of door:
My paternal grandfather, David Isaac Thompson; Unknown woman and man; My paternal grandmother, Clara (Meyerovitch) Thompson; my maternal grandmother Raichel Globerman; "Auntie" Rosie (Ashkenazie) Meyers (seated), wife of Clara's brother Hymie (Meyerovitch) Myers; My father's sister Celia Kaufmann (in white coat); Hymie Meyers, my grandmother Clara's brother.


The photograph was taken on the occasion of the dedication of this classroom at the Talmud Torah Winnipeg Hebrew School 123 Matheson Avenue, Winnipeg, Manitoba (late 1950s). My grandfather, Maishel Globerman, dedicated this room as a memorial to his family members who perished in the Holocaust. He said that since there was no gravestone or marker, this room would be a memorial to them.