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Starting of the Krugerdorf Cemetery
11 July 1980
Krugerdorf cemetery, Krugerdorf, Ontario, Canada

Credits:
Courtesy of the Ontario Jewish Archives

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The cemetery came about as a result of the first Mrs. Gurevitch's passing or the unfortunate canoe accident.

The Perkus'

Yes, supposedly in that canoe was a Mr. Perkus, Mr. . . .his Son plus an English Jew supposedly working on the railroad was probably in this canoe.

And the beautiful story, that Edith Atkinson- its Edith Atkinson - told us about how the cemetery was given by Henerofsky. . .

I believe it was a corner of his farm.

It was a corner of his farm and apparently he just brought his wife from Europe. That week! And he gave and when these people were drowned - they laid out the bodies on her kitchen table. And she was saying she never forgave him she almost left right then and there, but it was a corner of his farm.

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"The cemetery was for everyone"
26 September 2003
Krugerdorf cemetery, Krugerdorf, Ontario, Canada

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Well I guess in this particular case - Why Timmins didn't have a Jewish cemetery? Why didn't Rouyn have a Jewish Cemetery? All communities were sort of interlocked with each other. OK? And I guess at one time it was decided ?.that they, to maintain it, the Jewish Cemetery they would need support of the various communities.

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Open to everyone
26 September 2003
Krugerdorf cemetery, Krugerdorf, Ontario, Canada

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Because there was a family like the Kormans. The Korman family -They, I think there were four boys and a girl or four girls and a boy, or whatever . . . so one went to Englehart, one went to Kirkland Lake, one went to Timmins, one went to Noranda. So there was this kind of interplay with a nucleus, the cemetery was a nucleus, and there were fingers, in all of these communities, of people who knew that there was a cemetery there.

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Map of Chamberlain Township indicating the location of Krugerdorf cemetery
2 February 2005
Krugerdorf cemetery, Krugerdorf, Ontario, Canada

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Krugerdorf Cemetery continues today with support from Jewish communities throughout northeastern Ontario and northwestern Quebec, as well as from the descendants of those buried in the cemetery.

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Cemetery
23 October 2004
Krugerdorf cemetery, Krugerdorf, Ontario, Canada

Credits:
Museum of Northern History Collection

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Krugerdorf Cemetery today.

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Headstone at Krugerdorf cemetery
1950
Krugerdorf cemetery, Krugerdorf, Ontario, Canada

Credits:
Photograph courtesy of Eddie Duke

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This is my nephew Harvey. Harvey is at the cemetery in Krugerdorf. (Marlene asked, "Your nephew?") Yes, standing beside his grandmother's tombstone, headstone. I took it as much to show the headstones, what the headstones were like with the Hebrew and the English on it. Typical headstone. Some of the new headstones don't have Hebrew on them. People are just doing them in English

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Cemetery
23 October 2004
Krugerdorf cemetery, Krugerdorf, Ontario, Canada

Credits:
Museum of Northern History Collection

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Tombstone of Roza Brown
1950
Krugerdorf cemetery, Krugerdorf, Ontario, Canada

Credits:
Museum of Northern History Collection