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.

By theme
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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