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Family Gathering to Commemorate the Passing of Leo Roback

https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn31759

Collection: Lea Roback Fonds

Description Level: File

Material Type: sound recording

Physical Description: 1 audiocassette

Fonds No.: 1243; 2; 00314

Date: 1985

1 document 1 video

Collection: Lea Roback Fonds

Description Level: File

Material Type: sound recording

Physical Description: 1 audiocassette

Date: 1985

Fonds No.: 1243

Series No.: 2

File No.: 00314

Storage Location: 2-4F; Container 12

Language: English

Acquisition Source: Lea Roback

Access Restrictions: Privacy restrictions may apply

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Name Access: Roback, Lea, 1903-2000

Subjects: Roback, Leo; Roback, David; Labour movement; Labour unions; Social justice; World War, 1939-1945 - Personal narratives

Archival / Genealogical: Archival Descriptions

Repository: Jewish Public Library Archives

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1243_00314

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Family Gathering to Commemorate the Passing of Leo Roback

https://www.youtube.com/embed/nsQkNxe8IlY

Interviews with Lea Roback

https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn31752

Collection: Lea Roback Fonds

Description Level: File

Material Type: sound recording

Physical Description: 1 audiocassette

Fonds No.: 1243; 1; 00307

Date: 1982

1 document 1 video

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.: 00307

Storage Location: 2-4F; Container 12

Creator: Radio-Canada

Language: English; French

Acquisition Source: Les Roback

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Name Access: Roback, Lea, 1903-2000

Subjects: Communism; Montreal (Quebec) -- Jews; Antisemitism; Nazi Germany

Places: Montreal (Quebec)

Archival / Genealogical: Archival Descriptions

Repository: Jewish Public Library Archives

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1243_00307

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Interviews with Lea Roback

https://www.youtube.com/embed/geoc2xAPs5Q

Interview with Lea Roback

https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn31751

Collection: Lea Roback Fonds

Description Level: File

Material Type: sound recording

Physical Description: 1 audiocassette

Fonds No.: 1243; 1; 00306

Date: 1996

1 document 1 video

Collection: Lea Roback Fonds

Description Level: File

Material Type: sound recording

Physical Description: 1 audiocassette

Date: 1996

Fonds No.: 1243

Series No.: 1

File No.: 00306

Storage Location: 2-3B; Container 12

Creator: Harris, E.

Language: English

Acquisition Source: Lea Roback

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Name Access: Roback, Lea, 1903-2000; Harris, Eiran; Parent, Madeleine; Bronfman, Saidye

Subjects: Antisemitism; Emigration and immigration.; Nazi Germany; International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union; Communist Party of Canada; Communism; Textile industry -- Canada.; Labour unions; Young Men's-Young Women's Hebrew Association; Pesotta, Rose; Shane, Bernard; Rose, Fred

Archival / Genealogical: Archival Descriptions

Repository: Jewish Public Library Archives

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1243_00306

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Interview with Lea Roback

https://www.youtube.com/embed/KMWRppX703Y

Interview with Sophie Bissonnette

https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn31754

Collection: Lea Roback Fonds

Description Level: File

Material Type: sound recording

Fonds No.: 1243; 1; 00309

Date: 1991

1 document 1 video

Collection: Lea Roback Fonds

Description Level: File

Material Type: sound recording

Date: 1991

Fonds No.: 1243

Series No.: 1

File No.: 00309

Storage Location: 2-4F; Container 12

Creator: Radio Centreville

Language: French

Acquisition Source: Lea Roback

Notes: About film "Des lumieres dans la Grande Noirceur"

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Name Access: Radio Centreville; Roback, Lea, 1903-2000

Subjects: Montreal (Quebec) -- Jews; Women; Women's Studies; Antisemitism; Folk music; Music.; Communism; Quebec (Province)

Places: Montreal (Quebec)

Archival / Genealogical: Archival Descriptions

Repository: Jewish Public Library Archives

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1243_00309

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Interview with Sophie Bissonnette

https://www.youtube.com/embed/lpwDIXwp70I

"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.

1 document 1 video

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

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Finding Aid: Audio content summary available

Name Access: Roback, Lea, 1903-2000

Subjects: Art

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Repository: Jewish Public Library Archives

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1243_00311

YouTube

https://www.youtube.com/embed/x8S_ImFPKuE

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

1 document 1 video

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

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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

1243_00308

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Lea Roback Recollections

https://www.youtube.com/embed/OffI19TCA1A

Penney, 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

1 image 1 video

Collection: WITNESS TO HISTORY COLLECTION (MHMC-02)

Description Level: Item

Material Type: moving images

Physical Description: 01:29:10

Creator: Montreal Holocaust Memorial Centre

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.