Fonds F2962 - Ann Straus Gertler fonds

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Ann Straus Gertler fonds

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  • 1960-2011 (Creation)
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    Gertler, Ann Straus

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5 m of textual records

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(1922-2017)

Biographical history

Ann Straus was born in New York City in 1922 and died in Montreal 2017. She studied economics at Vassar and Columbia. She married Maynard Gertler in 1948 with whom she had five sons.

Ann Gertler was an organizing member of Group of 78, Project Ploughshares, Voice of Women (VOW), Canadian Pugwash, Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF), and a board member of International Peace Bureau. in addition to her roles within the organizations, Ann was also a UN accredited observer for VOW and Ploughshares. Her interest in teaching peace led to her role in the establishment of the Grindstone Island peace education centre. Gertler was also an advisor to the Canadian disarmament ambassador at the UN and a board member for Canadian Institute for International Peace and Security (CIIPS),

In addition to her roles for and with these organizations
Ann was also co-founder and Director of Harvest House Publishers from it’s founding, in 1960, to 1995.

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This material was brought together from a number of locations by a number of different family members and helpers.

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The fonds is comprised of material gathered, collected and created by Ann Straus Gertler during her four decades as a peace advocate and activist.

Gertler acted as a distribution clearing house of sorts for information pertaining to disarmament activities in North America and Europe. The material is mainly comprised of literature and ephemera collected and gathered, which she would redistribute to those she thought interested in the activities of like-minded groups, or interested in knowing what was being discussed by various policy makers. For a number of years she issued the Ann Gertler Report which would synthesize this information for groups such as Voice of Women (V.O.W.), Project Ploughshares, and the Group of 78. The majority of this material is in the subject files series.

Ann Gertler was also a active member of a variety of organizations such as United Nations non-governmental organizations observer group, V.O.W., Group of 78, Canadian Pugwash, Project Ploughshares, the Consultative Group to the UN Ambassador on Disarmament, Women's International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF), Canadian Institute for International Peace and Security (CIIPS), and the St Lawrence River Public Advisory Committee. Each of these organizations are represented with series in the fonds.

Also included in the fonds are the yearly notebooks, calendars and correspondence that Gertler maintained reflecting her activities, thoughts and interests at a myriad of meetings she attended or observed. This material along with her educational materials from Columbia and other collected biographical information constitutes the Personal series.

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The material was received in no apparent order. A draft filing scheme from 1981 for the subject files was discovered and directed the arrangement of that series. The other series were created based on significant roles that Gertler had taken on in a variety of organizations. A significant amount of published material was culled from the collection. A list of the publications which were discarded has been maintained in the accession file.

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  • Shelf: 5162.1