Dorothy Dworkin
Dorothy Dworkin (née Goldstick; 1889 – 13 August 1976) was a Jewish Canadian nurse, businesswoman and philanthropist.
Life
Dworkin was the first trained nurse in Toronto's Jewish community and among its most important healthcare workers.
By moral of her family travel business, she helped thousands of Eastern European Jews immigrate to Canada and escape the Holocaust. Dworkin worked with many community charities and was a supporter of the Jewish. She was also the editor of a Yiddish newspaper and produced a Yiddish radio program. In 2009, she was known as a Person of National Historic Significance in Canada.
Dorothy Dworkin Media
Dorothy, Ellen, and Henry Dworkin, 1915
Mount Sinai Hospital Ladies Auxiliary with its president, Dworkin (seated at centre) c. 1923
E. & H. Dworkin Steamship and Bankers, 1917
Dworkin (left) with relief parcels for Poland during WWII
