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.
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Angela Orosz
Angela Orosz talks about her birth and first weeks in Auschwitz.
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George Reinitz
George Reinitz explains how he survived Auschwitz.
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Liselotte Ivry
Liselotte Ivry describes her experiences in sub-camps of the Neuengamme concertation camp.
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Eva Majerczyk
Eva Majerczyk describes how she met her future husband in the Klettendorf labour camp.
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Joseph Kastner
Joseph Kastner describes daily life in Bergen-Belsen, where he was deported at the age of 14.
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George Meles
George Meles describes life in a Hungarian forced labour battalion in 1944.
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Helen Schwartz
Helen Schwartz describes her arrival in the Majdanek concentration camp.
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Ze'ev Weiszner
Ze’ev Weiszner describes daily life in the Gusen labour camp, a satellite camp of Mauthausen.
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Paul Bard
Paul Bard describes dismantling one of the last gas chambers in Birkenau.
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Joseph Kohn
Joseph Kohn recalls the harsh work and cruelty of the SS guards in the Rehmsdorf labour camp.
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Klara Forrai
Klara Forrai recalls she spent one month completely naked in the Auschwitz.
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Ted Bolgar
Ted Bolgar describes his arrival in Auschwitz and working in the former Warsaw ghetto.
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