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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.
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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Camps
Klara Forrai
Klara Forrai recalls she spent one month completely naked in the Auschwitz.
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Life before the War
Aba Beer
Aba Beer describes Jewish life in his native town, Bielsko-Biala before the war.
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Deportations
Barry Davis
Barry Davis recalls how he and his family were deported from Mukacheve, Hungary to Auschwitz.
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Liberation
Allan Fine
Allan Fine describes his work for the US army after liberation, and his studies in Munich.
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Early Persecutions
Dora Cohen
Dora Cohen describes the discrimination Jews were faced with in Vienna at the end of the 1930s.
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Camps
Ted Bolgar
Ted Bolgar describes his arrival in Auschwitz and working in the former Warsaw ghetto.
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Ghetto
Lou Zablow
Lou Zablow recalls how he and his family tried to pretend living a normal life in the Lodz ghetto.
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