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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.
Myriam Moatti describes her life in Tunisia during the German occupation of 1942-43.
ListenHelen Schwartz describes her arrival in the Majdanek concentration camp.
ListenRoger Abitbol describes how life changed when the Germans occupied Tunisia.
ListenSaul Reichert recalls how the high holidays were secretly celebrated
in Birkenau in 1944.
Vera Schiff describes her family’s life after Germany occupied Czechoslovakia.
ListenNachamia Wurman recounts his escape from the Ostrowiec labor camp.
ListenEva Koplowicz recalls how she and her family immigrated to Canada and settled in Edmonton in 1949.
ListenIrene Ross explains how she was adopted by a Christian couple and lived with them for three years.
ListenJacob Adler recalls the first years in Canada after immigrating in 1946.
ListenJudith Weiszmann explains how her family received Swedish Schutzpasses, protective papers.
ListenZe’ev Weiszner describes daily life in the Gusen labour camp, a satellite camp of Mauthausen.
ListenPaul Bard describes dismantling one of the last gas chambers in Birkenau.
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