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Rozmovits, Dora - Oral History of a Holocaust Survivor
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn60306
- Collection
- WITNESS TO HISTORY COLLECTION (MHMC-02)
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- moving images
- Physical Description
- 03:18:29
- Collection
- WITNESS TO HISTORY COLLECTION (MHMC-02)
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- moving images
- Physical Description
- 03:18:29
- Language
- English
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- Dora Rozmovits was born on August 14, 1928 in Kalnik, Ukraine (Czechoslovakia). The family moved to Karlovy Vary, Czech Republic, where she remembers a peaceful upbringing with her seven siblings in an orthodox Jewish home. By 1938, Dora recalls an uneasiness in the air as changes began; Dora escaped to Prague and returned back home to Kalnik. In April 1944, Dora and her family were rounded up along with other members of the community and forced to stay about two weeks in a ghetto outside Munkacs. From there, they were taken on a two-day train ride with no food or water, and no knowledge as to their destination. They arrived in Auschwitz; this was the last time Dora would see her mother. They were hauled into barracks and stripped of their clothes and everything they owned. From Auschwitz, Dora was transferred to Stutthof concentration camp for two weeks where she endured brutal treatment, terrible living conditions and daily appels. She was then sent to work in the forests, digging trenches for soldiers. After a couple of weeks of extreme physical labour, she was forced on a two week march to a camp near Pruszcz Gdansk, Poland. After another final transfer to the area of Gdansk, a typhoid fever epidemic broke out during which her eldest sister became very ill. Dora hid her sister during this time; after about a month, Dora herself contracted the disease, but fortunately recovered by the time of liberation. The Russians arrived on March 26th, 1945. Dora had been working in a sick camp despite only being 15 years old. From here, Dora returned to Gdansk with her sister and then to Kalnik where they were reunited with their father, two brothers, and two sisters. They found out that their mother and two brothers died. The family moved back to Karlovy Vary and Dora moved to Marseille, France, to volunteer for Hagana, an Israeli underground. After meeting her husband, Dora moved to Israel where she got a job working in a kitchen. She was reunited with her husband who at the time was in the army. Dora found a job at a Mental Hospital in Carmel. She gave birth to her first son in Israel. Dora and her family decided to go to Canada as her stepmother’s brother lived in Montreal. In Dora’s closing statement, she thanks God for her children and husband, and wishes that no one should ever have to experience what she went through.
- Accession No.
- WTH-295
- Name Access
- Rozmovits, Dora
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
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Sinker
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn47574
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- object
- Physical Description
- Sinker : cast (moulded), incised, perforated : gold
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- object
- Physical Description
- Sinker : cast (moulded), incised, perforated : gold
- Other Title Information
- Fishing & Trapping T&E
- Notes
- Round ball, with incised tool markings along the circumference, extending from a flat triangular arm. Arm has a punched hole in the top.
- Accession No.
- 2011X.145.01
- Name Access
- Gladstone, Dora
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
Images
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