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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.
Early Persecutions
Leo Dortort
Leo Dortort shares his memories of Kristallnacht in his hometown, Graz.
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Early Persecutions
Fishel Goldig
Fishel Goldig recounts his first encounter with antisemitism in elementary school.
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Early Persecutions
Margrit Stenge
Margrit Stenge describes an antisemitic incident during a visit to her grandmother in 1938.
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Early Persecutions
Vera Schiff
Vera Schiff describes her family’s life after Germany occupied Czechoslovakia.
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Early Persecutions
Dora Cohen
Dora Cohen describes the discrimination Jews were faced with in Vienna at the end of the 1930s.
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