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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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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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Escape
Eva Kuper
Eva Kuper recalls how she was saved from deportation.
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Hiding
Daisy Gross
Daisy Gross recalls her life under an assumed identity in a Slovak village.
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Escape
Paula Bultz
Paula Bultz describes her escape with her mother through the Polish border to the Soviet Union.
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Escape
Sarah Engelhard
Sarah describes their perilous journey, fleeing France across the Pyrenees to Spain.
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Early Persecutions
Fishel Goldig
Fishel Goldig recounts his first encounter with antisemitism in elementary school.
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Hiding
Elie Dawang
Elie Dawang recalls his flight from Paris and his experiences in hiding.
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Anti-Jewish Measures
Georgette Brinberg
Georgette Brinberg recounts her experiences during the Vel d’Hiv roundups.
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Anti-Jewish Measures
Paul Herczeg
Paul Herczeg describes the first day he had to wear a yellow star.
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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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