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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
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  • Resistance
Liberation

Leslie Vertes

Leslie Vertes recalls how he was deported to a Soviet labor camp after the war.

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Liberation

Allan Fine

Allan Fine describes his work for the US army after liberation, and his studies in Munich.

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Liberation

Sarah Kleinplatz

Sarah Kleinplatz talks about her last day in Bergen-Belsen and the liberation.

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Liberation

Paul Landau

Paul Landau describes the days following his liberation in the Ebensee concentration camp.

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Liberation

Avrum Feigenbaum

Avrum Feigenbaum describes the day before the Liberation of Gorlitz.

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