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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.
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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Occupation
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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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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