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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.
ListenGeorge Reinitz explains how he survived Auschwitz.
ListenMarguerite Élias Quddus talks about two of her great traumas during the war.
ListenMila Mesner recalls how a non-Jewish friend who helped her family during the war.
ListenThomas Hecht recalls the difficulties of the first years in Montreal.
ListenMargaret Kaufman Newman recalls her journey to and arrival in Auschwitz.
ListenLeo Dortort shares his memories of Kristallnacht in his hometown, Graz.
ListenMuguette Myers recalls how she found friends at the YMHA when she first arrived in Montreal.
ListenEdgar Lion describes his experiences in the internment camp in Trois-Rivières, Quebec.
ListenEva Kuper recalls how she was saved from deportation.
ListenDaisy Gross recalls her life under an assumed identity in a Slovak village.
ListenPaula Bultz describes her escape with her mother through the Polish border to the Soviet Union.
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