Telegram sent from Calgary, Canada reporting Dr. Chaim Zhitlowsky's May 6, 1943 death while on IWO wartime support tour
Description:
Telegram sent from Calgary, Canada reporting Dr. Chaim Zhitlowsky's sudden death on May 6, 1943 while lecturing on an IWO wartime tour. The telegram to the New York City Yiddish Communist newspaper, Di Morgn Frayhayt, movingly recounts Dr. Zhitlowsky's successful talks in Calgary and his sudden fatal medical decline, and details the funeral train to New York City. According to Louis Pearlman from the UJPO (United Jewish Peoples Order) who writes the four page telegram, Zhitlowsky, possibly not fully understanding the seriousness of his condition, said: "When I suggested sending a wire to his wife he said 'please do not disturb her, inform Zaltsman.'” Rubin Saltzman was the General Secretary of the Jewish American Section of the IWO (JPFO) and had arranged the tour.
Date:
1943-05-06
Creator:
Louis Pearlman
File Name:
5276b30f16c_48
Identifier:
International Workers Order (IWO) Records #5276, Box 30, Folder 16c
Repository:
Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation and Archives, Martin P. Catherwood Library, Cornell University