Canadian Virtual War Memorial

Photo of JACOB SILVERSTEIN – Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me

Photo of JACOB SILVERSTEIN – Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me

Photo of JACOB SILVERSTEIN – Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me

Document – Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me

Newspaper clipping – From the Toronto Star June 1941. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me

Newspaper clipping – From the Toronto Star June 1944. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me

Newspaper clipping – From the Toronto Telegram September 1943. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me

Memorial – Ottawa Memorial … In honoured memory of the men and women of the Air Forces of the British Commonwealth and Empire who gave their lives in Canada, in the United States of America and in neighbouring lands and seas and who have no known grave.

Memorial – Warrant Officer Class I Jacob Silverstein as commemorated on the Ottawa Memorial, Ottawa, ON

Newspaper Clipping – This newspaper clipping appeared in a 1946 edition of "The Guardian" newspaper, Charlottetown, PEI. The airplane mentioned in the article was a Liberator aircraft # 3701 enroute from Gander, Newfoundland to Dorval, Quebec. It crashed and burned on the west side of a foothill of Black Mountain in Quebec. There is a Memorial Cairn on Black Mountain that was erected in memory of the twenty four gallant lads who lost their lives there.

St. Donat Roman Catholic Cemetery

Memorial Plaque on Black Mountain – A picture of the memorial plaque erected at the site of the crash that took the lives of 24 Canadians.

Close-Up of Memorial Plaque

Obituary – Jack Silverstein is honoured on page 71 of the memorial book, CANADIAN JEWS IN WORLD WAR II, Part II: Casualties, compiled by David Rome for the Canadian Jewish Congress, Montreal, 1948. This extract is provided courtesy of the Canadian Jewish Congress which holds the copyright for this volume. For additional information about these archival records, please contact: The Canadian Jewish Congress National Archives 1590 Ave. Docteur Penfield, Montreal, Que. H3G 1C5 (Canada) telephone: 514-931-7531 ex. 2 facsimile: 514-931-0548 website: www.cjc.ca