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.
Arthur Schwartz talks about his experiences in a forced labor battalion of the Hungarian army.
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George Reinitz explains how he survived Auschwitz.
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Marguerite Élias Quddus talks about two of her great traumas during the war.
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Mila Mesner recalls how a non-Jewish friend who helped her family during the war.
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Thomas Hecht recalls the difficulties of the first years in Montreal.
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Margaret Kaufman Newman recalls her journey to and arrival in Auschwitz.
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Leo Dortort shares his memories of Kristallnacht in his hometown, Graz.
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Muguette Myers recalls how she found friends at the YMHA when she first arrived in Montreal.
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Edgar Lion describes his experiences in the internment camp in Trois-Rivières, Quebec.
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Eva Kuper recalls how she was saved from deportation.
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Daisy Gross recalls her life under an assumed identity in a Slovak village.
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Paula Bultz describes her escape with her mother through the Polish border to the Soviet Union.
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