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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.
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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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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