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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
  • Rescuers
  • Resistance
Immigration

Thomas Hecht

Thomas Hecht recalls the difficulties of the first years in Montreal.

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Immigration

Muguette Myers

Muguette Myers recalls how she found friends at the YMHA when she first arrived in Montreal.

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Immigration

Edgar Lion

Edgar Lion describes his experiences in the internment camp in Trois-Rivières, Quebec.

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Immigration

Dana Bell

Dana Bell describes the difficulties of starting a new life in Montreal.

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Immigration

Eva Koplowicz

Eva Koplowicz recalls how she and her family immigrated to Canada and settled in Edmonton in 1949.

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Immigration

Jacob Adler

Jacob Adler recalls the first years in Canada after immigrating in 1946.

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