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The following testimonials are part of a project to digitize and preserve the testimonies of Holocaust survivors across Canada.
The project received financial support from the Government of Canada, the Azrieli Foundation, the Asper Foundation, Power Corporation, the Paula Nussbaum family and Janette and Michael Diamond.
Elizabeth Feldman recalls living in hiding with her parents before being denounced and deported.
ListenHoward Kleinberg recalls his final days in the Julag camp before being transfered to Auschwitz.
ListenPeter Silverman describes the mass murder of the Jewish population of his town in 1941.
ListenMarcel Tenenbaum recalls life in hiding in an attic in Brussels for two years.
ListenDora Wasserman recalls her early career as a performer.
ListenHelen Seidner describes the jobs she had in the Theresienstadt ghetto-labor camp.
ListenMax Arno Kugler recalls how a Ukrainian farmer hid his family during the war.
ListenPinchas Gutter recalls his education in cheder.
ListenLiba Augenfeld discusses resistance in the ghetto in Vilnius.
ListenHanneliese Schusheim describes life in the Riga ghetto.
ListenSasha Friedenstein recalls the creation and the living conditions of the Riga ghetto.
ListenJudith Levitan recalls the conditions and the roundups in the ghetto of Kovno.
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