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