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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
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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Occupation
Samuel Orshan
Samuel Orshan describes the German bombing of Kiev on June 22, 1941.
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Anti-Jewish Measures
Joseph Markovic
Joseph Markovic recalls the yellow badge Jews were ordered to wear in Croatia.
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Occupation
Salomon Buch
Salomon Buch recalls the “green ticket” roundup during which his father was deported.
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