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Engelhard, Sarah - Oral History of a Holocaust Survivor
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn60316
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- WITNESS TO HISTORY COLLECTION (MHMC-02)
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- moving images
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- 04:49:00
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- WITNESS TO HISTORY COLLECTION (MHMC-02)
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- moving images
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- 04:49:00
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- English
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- Sarah Engelhard was born on July 10, 1932 in Alsace-Lorraine, France. Her childhood was spent in Toulouse, where she lived with her parents and her younger brother Jack. With an increasing number of Jews in Toulouse being taken by the Nazis, her family escaped to Spain when she around nine years old. To do so they obtained false papers and hired guides to take them over the Pyrenees. They lived in Spain for almost two years, finally immigrating to Canada on the first day of Passover in April 1944. Though she picked up English quickly, she didn’t enjoy her first years in Canada. High school was hard for her, and she dropped out at age 15 to help her father sell his handbags. Though she managed to do her part well, he did not, and the business fell through. She found a job in the music section at Eaton’s department store. When she was 18 she left home and became engaged to a man she had known in high school, Avi Boxer. That engagement fell through and, after obtaining her degree from St. George’s University, she married a man twenty years her senior named Harry. They had three children. She moved with Harry to Philadelphia where he was working as an engineer. There, she began to write French love songs and perform in dinner clubs as a singer as well as audition for plays. She also taught French, eventually getting a television program for teaching French. She and Harry divorced in 1972. A year or two later she returned to Montreal after having visited Europe for the first time since she left. She reunited with Avi, and though the relationship was sour they had a child, Asa. In 1993 she and Asa left for Israel, where she lived for nine years. She returned to Montreal in 2002 and has since written a book about her life.
- Accession No.
- WTH-470
- Name Access
- Engelhard, Sarah
- Places
- Saarbrucken, Germany, Europe
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
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Engelhard, Sarah - Oral History of a Holocaust Survivor
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn60326
- Collection
- WITNESS TO HISTORY COLLECTION (MHMC-02)
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- moving images
- Physical Description
- 04:49:00
- Collection
- WITNESS TO HISTORY COLLECTION (MHMC-02)
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- moving images
- Physical Description
- 04:49:00
- Language
- French
- Notes
- Sarah Engelhard was born on July 10, 1932 in Alsace-Lorraine, France. Her childhood was spent in Toulouse, where she lived with her parents and her younger brother Jack. With an increasing number of Jews in Toulouse being taken by the Nazis, her family escaped to Spain when she around nine years old. To do so they obtained false papers and hired guides to take them over the Pyrenees. They lived in Spain for almost two years, finally immigrating to Canada on the first day of Passover in April 1944. Though she picked up English quickly, she didn’t enjoy her first years in Canada. High school was hard for her, and she dropped out at age 15 to help her father sell his handbags. Though she managed to do her part well, he did not, and the business fell through. She found a job in the music section at Eaton’s department store. When she was 18 she left home and became engaged to a man she had known in high school, Avi Boxer. That engagement fell through and, after obtaining her degree from St. George’s University, she married a man twenty years her senior named Harry. They had three children. She moved with Harry to Philadelphia where he was working as an engineer. There, she began to write French love songs and perform in dinner clubs as a singer as well as audition for plays. She also taught French, eventually getting a television program for teaching French. She and Harry divorced in 1972. A year or two later she returned to Montreal after having visited Europe for the first time since she left. She reunited with Avi, and though the relationship was sour they had a child, Asa. In 1993 she and Asa left for Israel, where she lived for nine years. She returned to Montreal in 2002 and has since written a book about her life.
- Accession No.
- WTH-537
- Name Access
- Engelhard, Sarah
- Places
- Saarbrucken, Germany, Europe
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
Images
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