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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.

By theme
  • All
  • Anti-Jewish Measures
  • Camps
  • Deportations
  • Early Persecutions
  • Escape
  • Forced Labour
  • Ghetto
  • Hiding
  • Immigration
  • Liberation
  • Life before the War
  • Occupation
  • Pogrom
  • Post-war
  • Religious Life
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  • Resistance
Early Persecutions

Davy Trop

Davy Trop recalls the discrimination he had to face as a child.

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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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