Title: Marketa Newman fonds

Dates: 1924-2000 [1942-2000, predominant]

Extent: 3.3 m of textual and graphic material
(ca. 1841 photographs)

Biographical Sketch: Marketa Newman was born in
Prague, Czechoslovakia in 1918. She married Arthur
("Bobek") Neumann (later changed to Newman),
and had two children, Karel changed to Charles or Chuck)
and Eva. She and her family were taken to the
"model concentration camp", Terezin, in 1942.
Kajo (11 months when they arrived) was one of only 100
children who survived, out of 15,000 children who passed
through Terezin. The family emigrated to Canada in 1949,
first staying in Toronto, and settled in Saskatoon in
September 1949. She received a Bachelor of Arts degree
from the University of Saskatchewan in 1962; and a
Bachelor of Library Science degree from the University
of Toronto in 1964. From 1964 until her retirement in
1985 she worked for the University of Saskatchewan
Library in the cataloguing, acquisitions, and collection
development departments. She was the author of
Biographical Dictionary of Saskatchewan Artists -
Women Artists and Biographical Dictionary
of Saskatchewan Artists - Men Artists. In 1997,
largely in recognition of the dictionaries, she
received an honorary degree from University of
Saskatchewan. She died on 6 November 2000.

Digitized Material: The digitized material from the
Marketa Newman fonds consists of files relating to
immigration to Canada from Czechoslovakia
- correspondence and telegrams, including with
Nathan Phillips, regarding an Order-in-Council;
and subsequent letters to family regarding the
immigration experience.

For a full description of the Marketa Newman fonds
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Saskatchewan Archival Information Network (SAIN).