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COLLECTIONS OF CANADIAN HOLOCAUST SURVIVORS
Survivors' Stories
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.
Hiding
Elizabeth Feldman de Jong
Elizabeth Feldman recalls living in hiding with her parents before being denounced and deported.
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Camps
Howard Kleinberg
Howard Kleinberg recalls his final days in the Julag camp before being transfered to Auschwitz.
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Pogrom
Peter Silverman
Peter Silverman describes the mass murder of the Jewish population of his town in 1941.
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Hiding
Marcel Tenenbaum
Marcel Tenenbaum recalls life in hiding in an attic in Brussels for two years.
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Life before the War
Dora Wasserman
Dora Wasserman recalls her early career as a performer.
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Ghetto
Helen Seidner
Helen Seidner describes the jobs she had in the Theresienstadt ghetto-labor camp.
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Rescuers
Max Arno Kugler
Max Arno Kugler recalls how a Ukrainian farmer hid his family during the war.
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Religious Life
Pinchas Gutter
Pinchas Gutter recalls his education in cheder.
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Resistance
Liba Augenfeld
Liba Augenfeld discusses resistance in the ghetto in Vilnius.
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Ghetto
Hanneliese Schusheim
Hanneliese Schusheim describes life in the Riga ghetto.
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Ghetto
Sasha Friedenstein
Sasha Friedenstein recalls the creation and the living conditions of the Riga ghetto.
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Ghetto
Judith Levitan
Judith Levitan recalls the conditions and the roundups in the ghetto of Kovno.
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