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.
Zlatka Pitluk recalls an unforgettable birthday in Auschwitz.
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Bozena Matis talks about the creation of the Warsaw ghetto and her life there in the first year.
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Sarah Kleinplatz talks about her last day in Bergen-Belsen and the liberation.
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Tola Granek recalls the punishment for picking up a potato thrown out of the camp kitchen.
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Meir Schondorf describes the death march from Auschwitz to the Gross-Rosen concentration camp.
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Paul Landau describes the days following his liberation in the Ebensee concentration camp.
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Jack Klajman describes his experience during the Warsaw ghetto uprising.
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Tommy Strasser recalls how Swedish diplomat Raoul Wallenberg saved him.
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Issie Veisfeld describes what happened during the Iasi pogrom in 1941.
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Meier Schlomowitz recalls how he was forced to move into the Kovno ghetto .
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Léon Fellmann recalls the conditions in the Vélodrome d'Hiver.
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Jane Litwack explains how she was taken to England in the Kindertransport.
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