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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.
Liberation
Leslie Vertes
Leslie Vertes recalls how he was deported to a Soviet labor camp after the war.
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Camps
Liselotte Ivry
Liselotte Ivry describes her experiences in sub-camps of the Neuengamme concertation camp.
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Immigration
Dana Bell
Dana Bell describes the difficulties of starting a new life in Montreal.
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Camps
Eva Majerczyk
Eva Majerczyk describes how she met her future husband in the Klettendorf labour camp.
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Camps
Joseph Kastner
Joseph Kastner describes daily life in Bergen-Belsen, where he was deported at the age of 14.
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Camps
George Meles
George Meles describes life in a Hungarian forced labour battalion in 1944.
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Occupation
Myriam Moatti
Myriam Moatti describes her life in Tunisia during the German occupation of 1942-43.
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Camps
Helen Schwartz
Helen Schwartz describes her arrival in the Majdanek concentration camp.
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Occupation
Roger Abitbol
Roger Abitbol describes how life changed when the Germans occupied Tunisia.
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Resistance
Saul Reichert
Saul Reichert recalls how the high holidays were secretly celebrated
in Birkenau in 1944.
Early Persecutions
Vera Schiff
Vera Schiff describes her family’s life after Germany occupied Czechoslovakia.
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Hiding
Nachamia Wurman
Nachamia Wurman recounts his escape from the Ostrowiec labor camp.
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