Chana-Mindla (Mina Herzlikowicz) Wolkowicz
and husband Pinchas Wolkowicz
and daughter Lily (married Floyd)
and son Nathan Wolkovitz

• In Memoriam ( Dates for lighting candles) and In Memory (Hebrew dates)
• Gazette newspaper announcement in Montreal
• BEFORE ALL MEMORY IS LOST Paperback Oct. 30 2016 by Myrna Goldenberg (Editor) with chapter by Mina.
• trees planted in Israel and cover page
• death certificate and some of the attendees' signatures
• anthology, International Women's Day at the Ariel Foundation: "Before all Memory is Lost: Women's voices from the holocaust"

• History/Family ITS, international tracing service for relatives

  • Family sailed from Le Havre/France on the SS Samaria; arrived Halifax Nov 30, 1949 at Pier 21.
    from info search: Cunard White Star Limited; Samaria; Montreal, Quebec, Halifax-Greenock, Liverpool, London, Southampton, Cherbourg, Havre, Cuxhaven, number of passengers: 1604; in Halifax - November 29 1949
  • Family Tree (geneology page), and written list of some family members, e.g. Herzlikowicz family pictures, and Mina's family with names and Herszlik/Lea
  • Husband
    • Pinchas Wolkowicz (Dec 9,1907-Mar 14, 1976), past chairman Workman's Circle, Montreal. Wolkowicz Memorial Fund for a classroom in Workmen's Circle School in Haifa. ( Wolkowicz Memorial Fund in Yiddish)
    • descendants of Shlomo Wolkowicz
  • Mina: Born in Piotrkow Trybunalski, Poland (June 10, 1910 to Dec. 20, 2003)
    • (dedicated web page at JewishGen ShtetLinks). The town of Piotrkow Trybunalski is included in the Lodz Area Research Group.
    • Mina's sister Bronia's death announcement right half and left half
  • Lily/Daughter born Dec 22, 1943 in Molotov, Russia.
    • Husband James R. Floyd, 1936-2016. Jim passed away in Montreal Nov. 3, 2016 at age 80. ( in French - obituary link)
    • Fellowship awarded to Lily in August/85.
    • resume; passed away Thursday, Nov. 6, 2008, in Montreal. (Cheshvan 8) In Memoriam (Dates for lighting candles) and El Moley ... and death notice in Gazette
  • Henry/Son
    • letter from Henry, dated may 28/83.
    • wife Gail Susan Kohl Wolkowicz
    • son Daniel Howard
  • Nathan/Son born Oct. 13, 1950, in Montreal Canada.
    • Passed away Thursday, June 9, 2011, in Houston, Texas. (Beth Jacob cemetary, 2300 Almeda-Genoa Rd., Houston, TX.)
  • Various Pictures/Historical
    • miscellaneous pictures and comments scanned january/04. The pictures date back to 1943.

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• Writings/Art/Interview by/of Mina

  • newspaper announcement of exhibit for Nov. 28/79.
  • Published in Collections, Creative Workds by Members of the Golden Age Association, Montreal, September, 1979, Pages 5-7.
    • The Storm (poem published originally in Polish in 1947 after returning from the camps in Russia. Mina translated it into English in Montreal in 1978.)
    • Love and Hate - not Genetic (essay)
  • Miscellaneous Essays/Stories/Interviews:
    • Reflections about Life in the Soviet Gulag (essay)
    • Reflections about Life before-during-after WWII: Interview by Nathan. (4 LARGE movie .VRO files, (approx. 800 megs each) works on e.g. a PC with Power-DVD or with VLC for windows.)
      part 1, part 2, part 3, part 4.
      accompanying .IFO file