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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.
Forced Labour
Arthur Schwartz
Arthur Schwartz talks about his experiences in a forced labor battalion of the Hungarian army.
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Camps
George Reinitz
George Reinitz explains how he survived Auschwitz.
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Anti-Jewish Measures
Marguerite Élias Quddus
Marguerite Élias Quddus talks about two of her great traumas during the war.
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Rescuers
Mila Mesner
Mila Mesner recalls how a non-Jewish friend who helped her family during the war.
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Immigration
Thomas Hecht
Thomas Hecht recalls the difficulties of the first years in Montreal.
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Deportations
Margaret Kaufman Newman
Margaret Kaufman Newman recalls her journey to and arrival in Auschwitz.
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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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