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Wahnon, Sarah - Oral History of a Holocaust Survivor
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn60317
- Collection
- WITNESS TO HISTORY COLLECTION (MHMC-02)
- Description Level
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- Material Type
- moving images
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- 01:17:00
- Collection
- WITNESS TO HISTORY COLLECTION (MHMC-02)
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- moving images
- Physical Description
- 01:17:00
- Language
- English
- Notes
- Sarah Wahnon (née Goldman) was born in 1923 in Lisbon, Portugal. At the beginning of the interview she states that she is not a survivor of the Holocaust. Her parents were born in Poland in 1895. They moved to Berlin in search of a better life. In 1923, with the rise of Hitler, they moved to Lisbon as it was easy to obtain visas for Portugal. Her father opened a small factory and the business went quite well. Sarah worked in a department store. Her family wasn’t particularly religious, but her mother made Sarah and her brother take Yiddish and Judaism classes. Sarah speaks about the deeds of Aristides de Sousa Mendes, the Portuguese diplomat who issued an estimated 30,000 visas to Jews and other persecuted minorities in Portugal, against the orders of his own government, Prime Minister Antonio de Oliviera Salazar. Sarah also describes the Jewish life in Portugal before, during and after WWII, and the changes with the arrival of refugees from the rest of Europe. In 1950, she immigrated to Canada with her husband (a Sephardi Jew) and her father, mother and brother, because they wanted to experience a different environment. She had two children who were born at the Jewish General Hospital in Montreal.
- Accession No.
- WTH-473
- Name Access
- Wahnon, Sarah
- Places
- Lisbon, Portugal, Europe
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
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