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Klag, Leo - Oral History of a Holocaust Survivor
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn67777
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- WITNESS TO HISTORY COLLECTION (MHMC-02)
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- moving images
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- 02:19:42
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- WITNESS TO HISTORY COLLECTION (MHMC-02)
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- moving images
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- 02:19:42
- Language
- English
- Notes
- Leo Klag was born on August 16, 1920 in Berlin, Germany. He grew up in an assimilated family. As a teenager in Berlin, he witnessed the rise of antisemitism in Germany since 1933. He saw the boycott of Jewish stores on April 1, 1933, book burnings and demonstrations on the streets of Berlin. He attended the Olympic Games in 1936. During Kristallnacht, his father and brother were taken away and disappeared forever. Leo fled to Hamburg believing the situation was better there. As it was not the case, he went back to Berlin and hid in a Jewish sports complex until February 1939. At this point, he was so sick that he went to hospital where he met a man who helped him organize his immigration to England. Upon his arrival in England, he was interned in the Kitchener camp where he worked for the War Office in a wireless station, listening to communications between German submarines and their bases. After the capitulation of France, Leo was sent to the Isle of Man with other German refugees. He was then shipped to Canada in July 1940. He was interned in Fort Lennox, on the Ile-aux-Noix. After two years he was free to move to Montreal where he worked in the press business. After the war he moved to the USA for two years then went to Israel for one year. He has been back to Germany several times since the end of the war.
- Accession No.
- WTH-516
- Name Access
- Klag, Leo
- Places
- Berlin, Germany, Europe
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
Images
YouTube
Klag, Leo - Oral History of a Holocaust Survivor
https://www.youtube.com/embed/kqSb-K6Yj4MKotkowsky, Charles - Oral History of a Holocaust Survivor
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn67759
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- WITNESS TO HISTORY COLLECTION (MHMC-02)
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- Material Type
- moving images
- Physical Description
- 01:09:37
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- WITNESS TO HISTORY COLLECTION (MHMC-02)
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- moving images
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- 01:09:37
- Language
- English
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- Charles Kotkowsky was born in Piotrkow Trybunalski, Poland on August 8, 1920. He says that he encountered significant antisemitism growing up. After the German invasion in September 1939, he was made to wear an armband identifying him as Jewish and became afraid to go outside. A ghetto was constructed almost immediately in Piotrkow Trybunalski. Charles worked in a glass factory and was in communication with a Jewish Resistance group. In 1942, he and his brother Shlomo were taken to a nearby labour camp. In November 1944, they were again transferred, first to the HASAG Pelzery, near Cz?stochowa, Poland, and then to Buchenwald in January 1945, where Charles was tormented and humiliated by being forced to strip naked in the freezing cold. Charles was taken on a death march to Floeszberg - a subdivision of Buchenwald - in Febuary 1945. The camp was incomplete, and Charles had to help in its construction. In April the camp was evacuated and the prisoners were placed on a train headed for Czechoslovakia. Along with seven other people, including his brother, Charles jumped off the train and successfully escaped. The group was hidden by sympathetic Czechoslovaks in Plzen, Czech Republic (Czechoslovakia). They were there hiding in a barn when they were liberated by the American Army on May 8, 1945. After the war, Charles mentioned that he was invited to what he described as a “séance,” where he witnessed captured S.S. men being beaten - one of whom was killed. His brother contracted tuberculosis and needed to be moved to a hospital in another town. Unfortunately, Charles could not stay with him in Czechoslovakia for long. He soon moved to a series of DP camps in Italy, working in a doctor’s office. In 1951, he was refused entry into the United States, but was accepted into Canada, arriving there that same year.
- Accession No.
- WTH-068
- Name Access
- Kotkowsky, Charles
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
Images
YouTube
Kotkowsky, Charles - Oral History of a Holocaust Survivor
https://www.youtube.com/embed/8hmNmz1HpGoKutscher, Jean - Oral History of a Holocaust Survivor
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn67764
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- WITNESS TO HISTORY COLLECTION (MHMC-02)
- Description Level
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- Material Type
- moving images
- Physical Description
- 01:31:06
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- WITNESS TO HISTORY COLLECTION (MHMC-02)
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- Material Type
- moving images
- Physical Description
- 01:31:06
- Language
- French
- Notes
- Jean Kutscher was born on January 24th, 1926 in Paris to Romanian parents. His parents had fled Romania because of antisemitism. Jean and his siblings attended a laic school and grew up in a secular home. In France, Jean and his relatives didn’t experience antisemitism before 1939. However, they knew what was going on in Germany, thanks to the news shown before movies in theatres. As a French citizen (not as a Jew), Jean was shocked by Germany invading France. At that point, several anti-Jewish laws were enacted. Jean and his siblings started to understand what it was to be Jewish. Although it was compulsory, Jean and his older brother decided not to wear the yellow star. Later on, Jews were frequently rounded up from the street. First, Jean’s father was sent to Drancy in 1941, and then his brother was arrested on the street and sent to Drancy. They were both taken to Germany to a destination unknown to their relatives. Jean’s girlfriend, who was a Gentile, helped the family and provided them with food. On September 23rd, 1942, French policemen arrested Jean, one of his brothers, his sister and his mother. At the police station, adults and children were separated. Jean lied about his age, enabling him to stay with his younger brother and sister. It was the last time they saw their mother. Jean’s sister was housed by the family of a friend while Jean and his brother left Paris. They planned to go to Lyon where one of their aunts lived. They managed to cross the line of demarcation by themselves, without a guide. Unfortunately, they couldn’t stay in their aunt’s apartment, and therefore joined the “Compagnons de France.” Jean couldn’t stand it so he returned to Paris without his brother. Jean worked as a salesman in a Parisian department store. One day, policemen came to the store and told the young men working there that they had to come back the next day with some personal belongings. They were to be sent to Germany to work in exchange for the liberation of French POW’s. This mandatory service was called “Le Service du Travail Obligatoire” (STO). The police specified that if the men did not obey, the store directors and their families would be sent to Germany. Jean was taken to Germany and worked on a barge for one year. He was treated well and people trusted him. When Jean first saw the Allies in March 1945, he was hiding in a bunker near Duisburg. He was liberated by Canadians and served as an interpreter between Canadians and Germans for one month. Upon his arrival in Paris in 1945, Jean discovered the existence of concentration and death camps. As a result, Jean enrolled in the army to go to Germany but his superiors refused to send him there. Instead, Jean was sent to Morocco in April of 1945, and later to Indochina. He returned to Paris in 1947. He married his girlfriend in 1949. Jean and his wife immigrated to Montreal where they discovered a Jewish life like they had never seen before. Since his mother’s arrest, Jean has never stopped feeling traumatized and guilty.
- Accession No.
- WTH-149
- Name Access
- Kutscher, Jean
- Places
- Paris, France, Europe
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
Images
YouTube
Kutscher, Jean - Oral History of a Holocaust Survivor
https://www.youtube.com/embed/DBPicl1NsVA"L'Art d'Aujourd'hui"
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn31756
- Collection
- Lea Roback Fonds
- Description Level
- File
- Material Type
- sound recording
- Physical Description
- 1 audiocassette
- Fonds No.
- 1243; 2; 00311
- Date
- 1978
- Scope and Content
- Interview with author Michael Dufresne, host Gilles Aineaux (?), art critic.
- Collection
- Lea Roback Fonds
- Description Level
- File
- Material Type
- sound recording
- Physical Description
- 1 audiocassette
- Scope and Content
- Interview with author Michael Dufresne, host Gilles Aineaux (?), art critic.
- Date
- 1978
- Fonds No.
- 1243
- Series No.
- 2
- File No.
- 00311
- Storage Location
- 2-4F
- Container 12
- Creator
- Radio-Canada
- Language
- French
- Acquisition Source
- Lea Roback
- Access Restrictions
- Privacy restrictions may apply
- Reproduction Restrictions
- Copyright restrictions may apply
- Finding Aid
- Audio content summary available
- Name Access
- Roback, Lea, 1903-2000
- Subjects
- Art
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Jewish Public Library Archives
Documents
YouTube
Lea Roback Recollections
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn31753
- Collection
- Lea Roback Fonds
- Description Level
- File
- Material Type
- sound recording
- Physical Description
- 1 audiocassette
- Fonds No.
- 1243; 1; 00308
- Date
- 1982
- Collection
- Lea Roback Fonds
- Description Level
- File
- Material Type
- sound recording
- Physical Description
- 1 audiocassette
- Date
- 1982
- Fonds No.
- 1243
- Series No.
- 1
- File No.
- 00308
- Storage Location
- 2-4F
- Container 12
- Language
- English
- French
- Acquisition Source
- Lea Roback
- Access Restrictions
- Privacy restrictions may apply
- Reproduction Restrictions
- Copyright restrictions may apply
- Finding Aid
- Audio content summary available
- Name Access
- Roback, Lea, 1903-2000
- Subjects
- Antisemitism
- Nazi
- Nazi Germany
- Places
- Poland
- Beauport (Quebec)
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Jewish Public Library Archives
Documents
YouTube
Lea Roback Recollections
https://www.youtube.com/embed/OffI19TCA1ALEAVITT, Dr. Joseph, re: War Orphans in 1921 - interview by Eiran Harris.
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn50072
- Collection
- HARRIS, Eiran
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- sound recording
- Physical Description
- Copied WAV, SE 016-017
- Fonds No.
- P0231; SC 1066-29
- Date
- January 16, 1989
- Collection
- HARRIS, Eiran
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- sound recording
- Physical Description
- Copied WAV, SE 016-017
- Date
- January 16, 1989
- Fonds No.
- P0231
- Item No.
- SC 1066-29
- Notes
- Oral history. This entire interview is digitally copied (SE 016-17). In a 4 minute excerpt from this 88 minute interview, Dr. Joseph Leavitt discusses the Ukrainian Jewish war orphans he helped bring over to Canada in 1921.
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Canadian Jewish Archives
YouTube
LEAVITT, Dr. Joseph, re: War Orphans in 1921 - interview by Eiran Harris.
https://www.youtube.com/embed/DqCV4TYS1EALEHMAN, Ruth Colton - speaking about the Ste. Sophie Jewish Community and her illustrated lecture 'From Shtetl to Parish'
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn48400
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- LUTSKY, Leslie = Jewish Digest Radio Show.
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- sound recording
- Fonds No.
- P0161; SC 1074-1-29
- Date
- June 10, 1988
- Collection
- LUTSKY, Leslie = Jewish Digest Radio Show.
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- sound recording
- Date
- June 10, 1988
- Fonds No.
- P0161
- Item No.
- SC 1074-1-29
- Notes
- Oral history. Interview by Leslie Lutsky, approximately 15 minutes long (the excerpted clip is approximately 10 minutes).
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Canadian Jewish Archives
YouTube
LEHMAN, Ruth Colton - speaking about the Ste. Sophie Jewish Community and her illustrated lecture 'From Shtetl to Parish'
https://www.youtube.com/embed/NKIjSiOHqQ0Martz, Fraidie, Vancouver author 'Open Your Hearts', Jewish War Orphans, WWII
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn90219
- Collection
- LUTSKY, Leslie = Jewish Digest Radio Show.
- Description Level
- File
- Material Type
- sound recording
- Fonds No.
- P0161; SC 1460-40
- Date
- Nov. 15, 1996
- Collection
- LUTSKY, Leslie = Jewish Digest Radio Show.
- Description Level
- File
- Material Type
- sound recording
- Date
- Nov. 15, 1996
- Fonds No.
- P0161
- Item No.
- SC 1460-40
- Notes
- 1996 interview by Leslie Lutsky for the radio show Jewish Digest. Fraidie Martz talks about her book, Open Your Hearts : The Story of the Jewish War Orphans in Canada, on their arrival and integration into Canadian society. A 6 minute excerpt from this 18 minute interview is available for viewing on YouTube. Digitized as WAV and WMA, March 11, 2020.
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Canadian Jewish Archives
YouTube
Martz, Fraidie, Vancouver author 'Open Your Hearts', Jewish War Orphans, WWII
https://www.youtube.com/embed/748BN4TG76AMeisels, Ron - Oral History of a Holocaust Survivor
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn67766
- Collection
- WITNESS TO HISTORY COLLECTION (MHMC-02)
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- moving images
- Physical Description
- 01:53:20
- Collection
- WITNESS TO HISTORY COLLECTION (MHMC-02)
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- moving images
- Physical Description
- 01:53:20
- Language
- English
- Notes
- Ron was born on June 7, 1935 in Budapest, Hungary, an only child. While his father's religious background was very orthodox, his mother's family was less religious. This led to tensions in the marriage, and they divorced in 1938. Ron's mother began a relationship with another man, Mor Makover, who later became Ron's stepfather. Ron still went to synagogue and had Sabbath dinners with his father's family every Friday night. He attended a neighbourhood Jewish elementary school, where he learnt to speak Hungarian and Hebrew. Ron remembers the day when German troops invaded Hungary and the fear that entered into his family's life from then on. Soon they were forced to wear the yellow Star of David. As Ron's father was a Polish citizen, his mother had become Polish too, and was now forced apply for residence documents. On May 1, 1944, she was arrested while waiting at the Polish embassy. She was taken into an old rabbinical college, where many Jews were held before being deported to Auschwitz and Dachau. After about two months, Raoul Wallenberg arrived at the college and, setting up a chair and table, proceeded to hand out Swedish passports to the captives. Ron's mother asked for additional passports for Ron and his father. Having been made Swedish citizens, they were now permitted to leave, and Ron's mother came home again. Soon after, in August 1944, Ron and his mother were moved into a designated "Swedish house," which was only for Swedish citizens. By this time Ron's stepfather, Mor, had been taken to a forced labour camp. Ron's mother took great risks to bring him food several times a week, passing as a Hungarian gentile by not wearing the yellow star. One time, when she went to bring him food as usual, she found out that he had been put on a train for deportation. Rushing to the train station, she found Wallenberg standing on the platform in front of the train. At her request, Wallenberg told the officials that there was a Swedish citizen on the train, and Ron's father's name was called out. Mor recognized it, and was able to pass as his mother's ex-husband. He was taken off the train and reunited with Ron and his mother. Only four inmates were to survive that particular deportation. By December 1944, all Jewish residents, irrespective of their Swedish nationalities, were ordered to line up in front of their houses and were sent to the ghetto. Ron thinks that by this time Wallenberg had lost some of his influence and was not able to stop the ghettoization of the Swedish citizens. By sneaking away from the line, Mor managed to save Ron's mother's wedding ring, which he was later able to trade in for a sack off flour. During their stay in the ghetto, there was heavy bombing of the houses and their own building was hit, completely destroying their living quarters on the top floor. A falling cross beam injured Ron and his mother. After having been treated at the hospital they were forced to move into the basement, which was extremely filthy and unhygienic. In January 1945, the Russian troops arrived and the ghetto was liberated. Mor found a cart, and took Ron and his mother back to their old apartment. A Christian woman had moved in, and Mor had to threaten that he would denounce her as a Nazi sympathizer before she finally moved out voluntarily. Mor and Ron's mother finally married in August 1945. After some years in Hungary under Communism, the family decided to leave in 1954. In order to save a man who had been selling arms to Israel from Hungary, as a cover-up, the Israeli government issued passports to Polish Jews in Hungary. Ron's family was among the lucky ones and was able to leave to Vienna and then Lim, Austria. There they waited for papers to enter the United States or Canada. Ron remembers being extensively questioned by the CIA on their lives in Communist Hungary. Finally their papers for Canada arrived and the family emigrated in November 1954.
- Accession No.
- WTH-183
- Name Access
- Meisels, Ron
- Places
- Budapest, Hungary, Europe
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
Images
YouTube
Meisels, Ron - Oral History of a Holocaust Survivor
https://www.youtube.com/embed/EudnIwlrhoIMEYER, Benhaim
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn78010
- Collection
- Sephardic Oral History Project interviews by Marie Berdugo-Cohen.
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- sound recording
- Physical Description
- Audio cassette, 89 minutes recorded. Digital copy available.
- Fonds No.
- CJC001-S-A; SC 1037-M2-28
- Date
- July 13, 1988
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- sound recording
- Physical Description
- Audio cassette, 89 minutes recorded. Digital copy available.
- Date
- July 13, 1988
- Fonds No.
- CJC001-S-A
- Item No.
- SC 1037-M2-28
- Creator
- Marie Berdugo-Cohen
- Notes
- Sephardic Oral History Project interview by Marie Berdugo Cohen. Digitized in WAV format in March 2015. Biography: Michel raconte son enfance et sa vie à Méknès avec ses parents et une famille nombreuse, tous vivant dans la même maison. Il se souvient de la charité de son père Salomon Bénhaim et de son beau père Pinhas Azogui qui s'est dévoué toute sa vie à la réconciliation des couples en désacord. Sa femme, Esther, décrit la tragique histoire de sa famille de dix enfants, dont sept d'entre eux ont été emportés par la tuberculose. Michel décrit les difficultés pour quitter le Maroc, malgré les 'bonnes connaissances' son séjour à Paris 'infernal' et son immigration au Canada en Novembre 1976 avec sa femme et ses 3 enfants. Il éxerce son métier de tailleur à la même place, depuis 11 ans à Montréal. Son fils Maxim est graphiste, Pat est dans l'informatique, sa fille s'est mariée et a eu 2 enfants. Ils aiment ce pays, malgré la neige et le frimas. Ils s'y sont complètement adaptés.
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Canadian Jewish Archives
YouTube
MEYER, Benhaim
https://www.youtube.com/embed/UER8g3PpAI0Nachum Wilchesky and his CFMB Jewish Radio Program
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn44505
- Collection
- CONGREGATION SHAAR HASHOMAYIM MUSEUM AND ARCHIVES
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- moving images
- Physical Description
- Video : DV tape : English : duration: 2 min 30 sec
- Fonds No.
- SH-01; 311
- Date
- 2002
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- moving images
- Physical Description
- Video : DV tape : English : duration: 2 min 30 sec
- Date
- 2002
- Fonds No.
- SH-01
- Item No.
- 311
- Physical Condition
- Excellent
- Notes
- An interview with Nachum Wilchesky, the first host of the Jewish show on the CFMB (Radio Montreal) radio station.
- Places
- Montreal, Quebec, Canada
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Congregation Shaar Hashomayim Museum and Archives
YouTube
Nachum Wilchesky and his CFMB Jewish Radio Program
https://www.youtube.com/embed/NTTwS8kVfNANew Torah Covers for Congregation Shaar Hashomayim
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn44506
- Collection
- CONGREGATION SHAAR HASHOMAYIM MUSEUM AND ARCHIVES
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- moving images
- Physical Description
- Video : VCR tape : English : duration: 1 min 19 sec
- Fonds No.
- SH-01; 313
- Date
- 1995
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- moving images
- Physical Description
- Video : VCR tape : English : duration: 1 min 19 sec
- Date
- 1995
- Fonds No.
- SH-01
- Item No.
- 313
- Physical Condition
- Good
- Notes
- A video showing the 14 needlepoint Torah covers that were made by women from the Shaar Hashomayim in honour of the synagogue’s 150th anniversary. The covers were made for a Jewish artists competition organized by Mrs. Millie Lande.
- Places
- Montreal, Quebec, Canada
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Congregation Shaar Hashomayim Museum and Archives
Images
YouTube
New Torah Covers for Congregation Shaar Hashomayim
https://www.youtube.com/embed/WJRnbik1mvAPearl DEUTCH - Jewish community, Rouyn,Noranda
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn88129
- Collection
- LUTSKY, Leslie = Jewish Digest Radio Show.
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- sound recording
- Fonds No.
- P0161; SC 1073b-29
- Date
- October 7, 1987
- Collection
- LUTSKY, Leslie = Jewish Digest Radio Show.
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- sound recording
- Date
- October 7, 1987
- Fonds No.
- P0161
- Item No.
- SC 1073b-29
- Notes
- Interview of about 17 minutes by Leslie Lutsky. Deutch speaks about the Jewish community in Rouyn-Noranda of the 1930s to 1950s. Digitized Jan. 9, 2017 in WAV and WMA formats. The tape also includes unrelated recordings (not digitized). A video version was created from a 5 minute excerpt.
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Canadian Jewish Archives
YouTube
Pearl DEUTCH - Jewish community, Rouyn,Noranda
https://www.youtube.com/embed/Xu0tHrQa7_wPenney, Lea - Oral History of a Holocaust Survivor
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn67761
- Collection
- WITNESS TO HISTORY COLLECTION (MHMC-02)
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- moving images
- Physical Description
- 01:29:10
- Collection
- WITNESS TO HISTORY COLLECTION (MHMC-02)
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- moving images
- Physical Description
- 01:29:10
- Language
- English
- Notes
- Lea Penney (née Prilutzky) was born on February 17, 1922 in Berlin, Germany. Her parents were of Ukrainian origin and had immigrated to Germany during the pogroms in Russia. Her father worked for a large insurance company. Lea describes her father as "ultra-orthodox," and accordingly family life was very observant. They did not live in a particularly Jewish part of Berlin and Lea began by going to a German public school. It was only later that she joined a Jewish school. The day Adolf Hitler was appointed Chancellor, Lea remembers the tremendous fear and excitement that entered into the lives of her family and the Jewish community. In her own family, the situation was never discussed because her father wanted to shelter his children as much as possible. About every six months, new antisemitic restrictions were enforced. Because of these laws, her father eventually lost his job as an insurance salesman laws and began to deliver coal instead. The family had to move to a smaller and cheaper apartment. It was then that Lea felt the poverty and hunger which began to dominate family life. Rumours about concentration camps began to circulate within the community. Lea was part of a Jewish group that was training youths to go to Palestine and work on a Kibbutz. On November 9, 1938, the day of Kristallnacht, she was taking part in a preparatory camp near Hamburg, when everyone was told by the monitors to be quiet and turn off the lights. The next day the youths found out what had happened in the rest of Germany. As she discovered later, the Jewish Association had paid the Nazis to protect the children. In February 1939, at 17 years old, Lea was brought to Palestine by the organization. There she lived on Kibbutz for two years until 1941. Even though work was very hard, she felt a great sense of relief at the freedom she had there. In the beginning, she was still able to write and receive letters to her family in Germany. Later on all communication ceased. She describes that there was a great amount of pressure for young people in Palestine to join the British army. After having worked cleaning and ironing for some time, she decided to do so, and eventually became an English, German, and typing teacher in the army. She was stationed in Egypt and during the last years of the war was contacted by the Red Cross to send financial assistance to her mother, who had been found in Paris. As she later found out, her father had made it to Paris too, after hiding for some time in Germany. From a Paris labour camp, however, he was eventually deported to Auschwitz, where he perished. All her siblings had been able to leave Germany, some to England, others to Palestine. Lea met her husband in the army and they married in Cairo in 1946. The couple moved to England where they stayed until 1953. Her husband was a civil servant, and received a job offer in Geneva, where they lived from 1953 to 1965. After staying a year in Germany, they eventually moved to Montreal in 1969, where they have lived ever since. Lea and her husband have two sons and one daughter.
- Accession No.
- WTH-081
- Name Access
- Penney, Lea
- Places
- Berlin, Germany, Europe
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
Images
YouTube
Penney, Lea - Oral History of a Holocaust Survivor
https://www.youtube.com/embed/f7PVB7qCr50PENN, Martin - speaking at a rally in 1988, Part 1: about his Moscow airport experience during his 1979 trip to the Soviet Union on behalf of the Canadian Committee for Soviet Jewry.
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn50249
- Collection
- LUTSKY, Leslie = Jewish Digest Radio Show.
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- sound recording
- Fonds No.
- P0161; SC 1074-2A-29
- Date
- 1988
- Collection
- LUTSKY, Leslie = Jewish Digest Radio Show.
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- sound recording
- Date
- 1988
- Fonds No.
- P0161
- Item No.
- SC 1074-2A-29
- Notes
- Speech recorded by Leslie Lutsky. Approximately 10 minute clip made from the digital copy. Copies in WAV, WMA and MP3 formats made in Feb. 2013.
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Canadian Jewish Archives
YouTube
PENN, Martin - speaking at a rally in 1988, Part 1: about his Moscow airport experience during his 1979 trip to the Soviet Union on behalf of the Canadian Committee for Soviet Jewry.
https://www.youtube.com/embed/eLfdLPP8ZUsPENN, Martin - speaking at a rally in 1988, Part 2: about a synagogue visit in Alma-Ata, Kazakhstan, during his 1979 trip to the USSR on behalf of the Canadian Committee for Soviet Jewry
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn50250
- Collection
- LUTSKY, Leslie = Jewish Digest Radio Show.
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- sound recording
- Fonds No.
- P0161; SC 1074-2B-29
- Date
- 1988
- Collection
- LUTSKY, Leslie = Jewish Digest Radio Show.
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- sound recording
- Date
- 1988
- Fonds No.
- P0161
- Item No.
- SC 1074-2B-29
- Notes
- Speech recorded by Leslie Lutsky. Approximately 10 minute clip made from the digital copy. Copies in WAV, WMA and MP3 formats made in Feb. 2013.
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Canadian Jewish Archives
YouTube
PENN, Martin - speaking at a rally in 1988, Part 2: about a synagogue visit in Alma-Ata, Kazakhstan, during his 1979 trip to the USSR on behalf of the Canadian Committee for Soviet Jewry
https://www.youtube.com/embed/pKJPd4D1fcUPENN, Martin speaking, Part 3: about his Passover meal with a refusnik family in Alma-Ata, Kazakhstan, during a 1979 trip to the USSR on behalf of the Canadian Committee for Soviet Jewry
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn50251
- Collection
- LUTSKY, Leslie = Jewish Digest Radio Show.
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- sound recording
- Fonds No.
- P0161; SC 1074-2C-29
- Date
- 1988
- Collection
- LUTSKY, Leslie = Jewish Digest Radio Show.
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- sound recording
- Date
- 1988
- Fonds No.
- P0161
- Item No.
- SC 1074-2C-29
- Notes
- Speech recorded by Leslie Lutsky. Approximately 8 minute clip made from the digital copy. Copies in WAV, WMA and MP3 formats made in Feb. 2013.
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Canadian Jewish Archives
YouTube
PENN, Martin speaking, Part 3: about his Passover meal with a refusnik family in Alma-Ata, Kazakhstan, during a 1979 trip to the USSR on behalf of the Canadian Committee for Soviet Jewry
https://www.youtube.com/embed/cmLJxNvrfd8Perkal, Stephen - Oral History of a Holocaust Survivor
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn67774
- Collection
- WITNESS TO HISTORY COLLECTION (MHMC-02)
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- moving images
- Physical Description
- 11:13:00
- Collection
- WITNESS TO HISTORY COLLECTION (MHMC-02)
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- moving images
- Physical Description
- 11:13:00
- Language
- English
- Notes
- Stephen Perkal was born on December 14, 1914 in Zelechow, Poland (Russia). As a young man, he became a member of the Bund. In the spring of 1939, he was asked to conduct a campaign for the party in Mi?dzyrzec, Poland. When the war broke out, Stephen fled the city and went to Vilnius, a Polish town at the time. Upon the Lithuanian take over in fall 1939, Stephen had to move again. He stayed near Kaunas, Lithuania, until the end of 1940. He eventually got a visa from Chiune Sugihara to enter Japan. He took the train from Moscow to Vladivostok then embarked on a ship to Kobe. After Germany attacked Russia, Stephen was forced to leave Japan. He went to Shanghai and stayed there from 1941 to 1947. He went to University and worked in a textile factory. At the beginning of 1947, he received permission to immigrate to Canada. He became a student at McGill University. Later, he worked for international unions and became an active member of the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation. Stephen married a Christian Montrealer, has two daughters and several grandchildren.
- Accession No.
- WTH-393
- Name Access
- Perkal, Stephen
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
Images
YouTube
Perkal, Stephen - Oral History of a Holocaust Survivor
https://www.youtube.com/embed/qY9oWk7uKkwPitluk, Zulema (Zlatka) - Oral History of a Holocaust Survivor
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn67772
- Collection
- WITNESS TO HISTORY COLLECTION (MHMC-02)
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- moving images
- Physical Description
- 00:36:33
- Collection
- WITNESS TO HISTORY COLLECTION (MHMC-02)
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- moving images
- Physical Description
- 00:36:33
- Language
- Yiddish
- Notes
- Pitluk, Zulema (Zlatka) was born on September 23, 1924 in Pruzana , Belarus (Poland).
- Accession No.
- WTH-327
- Name Access
- Pitluk, Zulema (Zlatka)
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
Images
YouTube
Pitluk, Zulema (Zlatka) - Oral History of a Holocaust Survivor
https://www.youtube.com/embed/AjhenOmDhpAPresentation of a Coat of Arms for Congregation Shaar Hashomayim
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn44507
- Collection
- CONGREGATION SHAAR HASHOMAYIM MUSEUM AND ARCHIVES
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- moving images
- Physical Description
- Video : VCR tape : English : duration: 1 min 21 sec
- Fonds No.
- SH-01; 315
- Date
- 1995
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- moving images
- Physical Description
- Video : VCR tape : English : duration: 1 min 21 sec
- Date
- 1995
- Fonds No.
- SH-01
- Item No.
- 315
- Physical Condition
- Good
- Notes
- In this video the Shaar Hashomayim receives a coat of arms.
- Places
- Montreal, Quebec, Canada
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Congregation Shaar Hashomayim Museum and Archives
Images
YouTube
Presentation of a Coat of Arms for Congregation Shaar Hashomayim
https://www.youtube.com/embed/tjzDMBSzkkA