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  • Abkhazi Archives

    User Collection
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    35Works
    Description:
    This exhibit includes selections from the records of Peggy and Nicholas Abkhazi held in the University of Victoria Archives, including material relating to the interwar period, World War II and the design and creation of the Abkhazis' internationally renowned...
    Subject
    Local History, Families, and Military History
    Location
    Victoria, British Columbia, Canada and Shanghai, Shanghai, China
    Resource Type
    Collection
    Genre
    photograph albums, photographs, correspondence, and manuscripts (documents)

  • Saul Holiff Collection

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    1Collections
    80Works
    Description:
    This collection features materials from the archives of Saul Holiff, the Canadian manager of one of the most iconic figures in American music history: Johnny Cash. Holiff, who started out as a concert promoter in the late 1950s in London, Ontario, managed Cash from...
    Subject
    Performing Arts, Arts and Culture, and Local History
    Resource Type
    Collection
    Genre
    scrapbooks, correspondence, and photographs

  • Victor Reinstein Collection

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    1Collections
    7Works
    Description:
    Personal collection of Rabbi Victor Hillel Reinstein, Rabbi of the Congregation Emanu-El Synagogue in Victoria, B.C. from 1982-1998. Reinstein was a leading figure in Holocaust memorialization in Victoria and led the creation of both the Kristallnacht memorial ceremonies,...
    Subject
    Local History
    Location
    Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
    Resource Type
    Collection
    Genre
    correspondence and manuscripts (documents)

  • World of Mary's Wedding Reminiscences of World War One

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    1Collections
    85Works
    Description:
    In 2008, <a href="https://pacificopera.ca/">Pacific Opera Victoria</a> commissioned an opera from the play, Mary's Wedding. The play tells a story of love and remembrance set in the Prairies, the trenches of France, and the Battle of Moreuil Wood...
    Subject
    Military History, Performing Arts, Local History, and Arts and Culture
    Location
    Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
    Resource Type
    Collection
    Genre
    correspondence and photographs