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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.
Hiding
Nachamia Wurman
Nachamia Wurman recounts his escape from the Ostrowiec labor camp.
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Immigration
Eva Koplowicz
Eva Koplowicz recalls how she and her family immigrated to Canada and settled in Edmonton in 1949.
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Hiding
Irene Ross
Irene Ross explains how she was adopted by a Christian couple and lived with them for three years.
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Immigration
Jacob Adler
Jacob Adler recalls the first years in Canada after immigrating in 1946.
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Rescuers
Judith Weiszmann
Judith Weiszmann explains how her family received Swedish Schutzpasses, protective papers.
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Camps
Ze'ev Weiszner
Ze’ev Weiszner describes daily life in the Gusen labour camp, a satellite camp of Mauthausen.
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Camps
Paul Bard
Paul Bard describes dismantling one of the last gas chambers in Birkenau.
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Resistance
Jacques Neufeld
Jacques Neufeld recalls how he helped smuggle Jews out of the Rivesaltes transit camp in France.
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Occupation
Jean Kutscher
Jean Kutscher explains how life changed after the German occupation of France.
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Post-war
Leon Celemencki
Leon Celemencki describes the Jewish orphanage and the boarding school, where he went after the war.
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Resistance
Sam Goldwasser
Sam Goldwasser recalls how he blew up German trains with his partisan unit as a 14-year-old boy.
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Camps
Joseph Kohn
Joseph Kohn recalls the harsh work and cruelty of the SS guards in the Rehmsdorf labour camp.
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