Holocaust Survivors In Canada

Author : Adara Goldberg
Publisher : Univ. of Manitoba Press
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2015-09-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9780887554940

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Holocaust Survivors in Canada by Adara Goldberg Pdf

In the decade after the Second World War, 35,000 Jewish survivors of Nazi persecution and their dependants arrived in Canada. This was a watershed moment in Canadian Jewish history. The unprecedented scale of the relief effort required for the survivors, compounded by their unique social, psychological, and emotional needs challenged both the established Jewish community and resettlement agents alike. Adara Goldberg’s Holocaust Survivors in Canada highlights the immigration, resettlement, and integration experience from the perspective of Holocaust survivors and those charged with helping them. The book explores the relationships between the survivors, Jewish social service organizations, and local Jewish communities; it considers how those relationships—strained by disparities in experience, language, culture, and worldview—both facilitated and impeded the ability of survivors to adapt to a new country. Researched in basement archives and as well as at Holocaust survivors’ kitchen tables, Holocaust Survivors in Canada represents the first comprehensive analysis of the resettlement, integration, and acculturation experience of survivors in early postwar Canada. Goldberg reveals the challenges in responding to, and recovering from, genocide—not through the lens of lawmakers, but from the perspective of “new Canadians” themselves.

Author : Multiple authors
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2020-01-14
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1988065577

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Sustaining Memories: Stories of Canadian Holocaust Survivors by Multiple authors Pdf

The Azrieli Foundation established the Sustaining Memories Project to help survivors write their stories. A unique partnership between survivors and volunteer writing partners who were trained to work with Holocaust survivors on recording and transcribing their stories, volunteers spent countless hours on these testimonies. The strength of the bonds that form when a volunteer and a survivor create a memoir, of the emotional challenges that a survivor faces in the telling and the understanding, and the insight that the listener experiences were all part of an incredible journey. Excerpts of these co-written memoirs, never before published, are produced in this anthology to give readers a wide range of understanding of the varieties of experiences of Holocaust survivors. Sustaining Memories gives voice to Canadian Jews who suffered through ghettos, camps, hiding, fighting in the underground, as refugees in foreign countries or passing as non-Jews in daily fear of betrayal. Following their liberation, survivors often had to congregate in displaced persons camps, where many married, had children and waited years for countries to offer them new homes. Some would end up in the detention camps of Cyprus on their way to pre-state Israel; others found themselves locked behind the Iron Curtain for decades. Between 1946 and the 1980s, they all built new lives in Canada.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Holocaust survivors
ISBN : OCLC:640507246

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New Perspectives on Canada, the Holocaust and Survivors by Anonim Pdf

Author : Belle Millo
Publisher : Belle Millo
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780969125693

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Voices of Winnipeg Holocaust Survivors by Belle Millo Pdf

Author : Olga Verrall
Publisher : University of Calgary Press
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781552382202

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Missing Pieces by Olga Verrall Pdf

Until age seven, Olga Barsony Verrall lived an idyllic life in Szarvas, a small town in Hungary, surrounded by her doting, observant Jewish family. After the Nazi invasion in 1944, Olga found herself, along with most of her family, interned in the Auspitz labour camp. Eventually reunited after the war. A long journey of physical and mental healing, along with the support of her family, helped Olga piece her life back together. For Olga, writing her memoir was a catharsis. For her readers, it will be an inspiration.

Author : Max Eisen
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2016-04-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9781443448550

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By Chance Alone by Max Eisen Pdf

WINNER of CBC Canada Reads In the tradition of Elie Wiesel’s Night and Primo Levi’s Survival in Auschwitz comes a bestselling new memoir by Canadian survivor Finalist for the 2017 RBC Taylor Prize More than 70 years after the Nazi camps were liberated by the Allies, a new Canadian Holocaust memoir details the rural Hungarian deportations to Auschwitz-Birkenau, back-breaking slave labour in Auschwitz I, the infamous “death march” in January 1945, the painful aftermath of liberation, a journey of physical and psychological healing. Tibor “Max” Eisen was born in Moldava, Czechoslovakia into an Orthodox Jewish family. He had an extended family of sixty members, and he lived in a family compound with his parents, his two younger brothers, his baby sister, his paternal grandparents and his uncle and aunt. In the spring of1944--five and a half years after his region had been annexed to Hungary and the morning after the family’s yearly Passover Seder--gendarmes forcibly removed Eisen and his family from their home. They were brought to a brickyard and eventually loaded onto crowded cattle cars bound for Auschwitz-Birkenau. At fifteen years of age, Eisen survived the selection process and he was inducted into the camp as a slave labourer. One day, Eisen received a terrible blow from an SS guard. Severely injured, he was dumped at the hospital where a Polish political prisoner and physician, Tadeusz Orzeszko, operated on him. Despite his significant injury, Orzeszko saved Eisen from certain death in the gas chambers by giving him a job as a cleaner in the operating room. After his liberation and new trials in Communist Czechoslovakia, Eisen immigrated to Canada in 1949, where he has dedicated the last twenty-two years of his life to educating others about the Holocaust across Canada and around the world. The author will be donating a portion of his royalties from this book to institutions promoting tolerance and understanding.

Author : Andrea Knight,Paula Draper,Nicole Bryck
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2020-10-20
Category : History
ISBN : 1772601446

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The Tailor Project by Andrea Knight,Paula Draper,Nicole Bryck Pdf

The remarkable story of approximately 2,500 Jewish tailors and their families who immigrated to Canada between 1948 and 1949 through the Garment Workers' Scheme in the aftermath of the Holocaust.

Author : David S. Koffman
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 323 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : Canada
ISBN : 9781487523572

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No Better Home by David S. Koffman Pdf

No Better Home? brings together a unique combination of voices to question whether or not Canada is the best home that Jews have ever had.

Author : Bernice Eisenstein
Publisher : McClelland & Stewart
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2007-09-25
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN : 9780771030642

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I Was a Child of Holocaust Survivors by Bernice Eisenstein Pdf

I Was a Child of Holocaust Survivors distills, through text and drawings, including panels in the comic-book format, Bernice Eisenstein’s memories of her 1950s’ childhood in Toronto with her Yiddish-speaking parents, whose often unspoken experiences of war were nevertheless always present. The memories also draw on inherited fragments of stories about relatives lost to the war whom she never met. Eisenstein’s parents met in Auschwitz, near the end of the war and were married shortly after Liberation. The book began to take root in her imagination several years ago, almost a decade after her father’s death. With poignancy and searing honesty, Eisenstein explores with ineffable sadness and bittersweet humour her childhood growing up in the shadow of the Holocaust. But more than a book about the Holocaust and its far-reaching shadows, this moving, visually ravishing graphic memoir speaks universally about memory, loss, and recovery of the past. No one who sees this book will not be deeply affected by its beautiful, highly evocative writing and brilliantly original and haunting artwork created by the author. I Was a Child of Holocaust Survivors is destined to become a classic. “I am lost in memory. It is not a place that has been mapped, fixed by coordinates of longitude and latitude, whereby I can retrace a step and come to the same place again. Each time is different. . . . “While my father was alive, I searched to find his face among those documented photographs of survivors of Auschwitz — actually, photos from any camp would do. If I could see him staring out through barbed wire, I thought I would then know how to remember him, know what he was made to become, and then possibly know what he might have been. All my life, I’ve looked for more in order to fill in the parts of my father that had gone missing. . . .” —Excerpts from I Was a Child of Holocaust Survivors

Author : Concordia University (Montréal, Québec). Chair in Canadian Jewish Studies,Montreal Institute for Genocide and Human Rights Studies
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 63 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Holocaust survivors
ISBN : 0889474303

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From Victim to Witness by Concordia University (Montréal, Québec). Chair in Canadian Jewish Studies,Montreal Institute for Genocide and Human Rights Studies Pdf

Author : Zelda Abramson,John Lynch
Publisher : Between the Lines
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2019-01-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9781771134057

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The Montreal Shtetl by Zelda Abramson,John Lynch Pdf

As the Holocaust is memorialized worldwide through education programs and commemoration days, the common perception is that after survivors arrived and settled in their new homes they continued on a successful journey from rags to riches. While this story is comforting, a closer look at the experience of Holocaust survivors in North America shows it to be untrue. The arrival of tens of thousands of Jewish refugees was palpable in the streets of Montreal and their impact on the existing Jewish community is well-recognized. But what do we really know about how survivors’ experienced their new community? Drawing on more than 60 interviews with survivors, hundreds of case files from Jewish Immigrant Aid Services, and other archival documents, The Montreal Shtetl presents a portrait of the daily struggles of Holocaust survivors who settled in Montreal, where they encountered difficulties with work, language, culture, health care, and a Jewish community that was not always welcoming to survivors. By reflecting on how institutional supports, gender, and community relationships shaped the survivors’ settlement experiences, Abramson and Lynch show the relevance of these stories to current state policies on refugee immigration.

Author : Ruth Klein
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : History
ISBN : 9780773540170

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Nazi Germany, Canadian Responses by Ruth Klein Pdf

Exploring the nature of Canada's response to the plight of European Jews seeking refuge and to anti-Jewish discrimination in Canada.

Author : Myrna Goldenberg
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 465 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2016-10-30
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1988065119

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Before All Memory Is Lost by Myrna Goldenberg Pdf

In this anthology, twenty-five women reflect on their experiences of survival - from the heart-stopping fears of hiding to the drastic risks of "passing" as non-Jews, and from the terrors of the Nazi camps to the treacheries of the Soviet Union. Each unique account is woven together by a common thread: women resisted and, ultimately, triumphed against the brutalities they faced during the Holocaust. The first-ever anthology published by the Azrieli Foundation, this powerful collection features a wide variety of narrative styles, including prose, poetry, and diary excerpts.

Author : Jerry S. Grafstein
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : History
ISBN : STANFORD:36105019204317

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Beyond Imagination by Jerry S. Grafstein Pdf

Author : Myra Giberovitch
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 357 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2014-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781442616103

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Recovering from Genocidal Trauma by Myra Giberovitch Pdf

Recovering from Genocidal Trauma is a comprehensive guide to understanding Holocaust survivors and responding to their needs. In it, Myra Giberovitch documents her twenty-five years of working with Holocaust survivors as a professional social worker, researcher, educator, community leader, and daughter of Auschwitz survivors.