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ELIASEWITZ, Fruma

https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn61863
Collection
Canadian Jewish Congress organizational records
Description Level
File
Material Type
textual record
Fonds No.
CJC0001; ZB (General Documentation: Personalia)
Date
1987
Collection
Canadian Jewish Congress organizational records
Description Level
File
Material Type
textual record
Date
1987
Fonds No.
CJC0001
Series No.
ZB (General Documentation: Personalia)
Notes
Sisters reunited after 48 years. File characteristics: Clippings. Montreal-related material.
Name Access
Eliasewitz, Fruma
Subjects
Fruma ELIASEWITZ
Places
Montreal
Archival / Genealogical
Archival Descriptions
Repository
Canadian Jewish Archives
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Eliasewitz, Fruma - Oral History of a Holocaust Survivor

https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn60313
Collection
WITNESS TO HISTORY COLLECTION (MHMC-02)
Description Level
Item
Material Type
moving images
Physical Description
01:56:00
Collection
WITNESS TO HISTORY COLLECTION (MHMC-02)
Description Level
Item
Material Type
moving images
Physical Description
01:56:00
Creator
Montreal Holocaust Memorial Centre
Language
English
Notes
Fruma Eliasewitz was born on January 1, 1922 in Skaudvile, Lithuania, to a religious family. She had five sisters and one brother. At the age of 15, she moved to Klaipeda (Memel) to work in a cigarette factory for two years. She got married in 1939. When the German army invaded Lithuania in 1939, Fruma moved to Tuarage and then to Kuanas where she remained until June 1941, working again in a cigarette factory. She spent a year and a half in the Slobodka ghetto. In 1942, she was transferred to Riga, Latvia, where she worked in the airport to supply building material. With the Russians approaching, she was deported to Dachau where she worked in the kitchen until April 1945. She was forced on a death march for almost a week until she was liberated by the American army in April 1945 near Wolfratshausen, Germany. She spent a short period in the Feldafing DP camp in Germany. Between 1945 and 1949 she lived with her husband in Munich, working in the kitchen for the Jewish committee and raising their first son. In 1949, the family moved to Israel where she had her second son. The following year, she had a daughter. In March 1953 she immigrated to Canada via Paris and Halifax. She worked various jobs - washing floors, in a stocking factory, and Cantor’s bakery in Côte St Luc. Two of her sisters live in Israel and four in Montreal.
Accession No.
WTH-453
Name Access
Eliasewitz, Fruma
Places
Skaudvile, Lithuania, Europe
Archival / Genealogical
Archival Descriptions
Repository
Montreal Holocaust Museum
Images
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