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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.
Jacques Neufeld recalls how he helped smuggle Jews out of the Rivesaltes transit camp in France.
ListenJean Kutscher explains how life changed after the German occupation of France.
ListenLeon Celemencki describes the Jewish orphanage and the boarding school, where he went after the war.
ListenSam Goldwasser recalls how he blew up German trains with his partisan unit as a 14-year-old boy.
ListenJoseph Kohn recalls the harsh work and cruelty of the SS guards in the Rehmsdorf labour camp.
ListenKlara Forrai recalls she spent one month completely naked in the Auschwitz.
ListenAba Beer describes Jewish life in his native town, Bielsko-Biala before the war.
ListenBarry Davis recalls how he and his family were deported from Mukacheve, Hungary to Auschwitz.
ListenAllan Fine describes his work for the US army after liberation, and his studies in Munich.
ListenDora Cohen describes the discrimination Jews were faced with in Vienna at the end of the 1930s.
ListenTed Bolgar describes his arrival in Auschwitz and working in the former Warsaw ghetto.
ListenLou Zablow recalls how he and his family tried to pretend living a normal life in the Lodz ghetto.
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