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Kleingrib, Annette - Oral History of a Holocaust Survivor
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn60322
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- French
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- Annette Kleingrib (née Naparstek) was born in Warsaw, Poland on May 3, 1926. In 1937, the family moved to Paris in search of a better life, free from the pervading antisemitism and economic instability of Poland in the 1930s. Annette’s father had died before the war began, leaving her mother to raise Annette and her six siblings. Her mother remarried to a non-Jewish man in 1937. They went to school in Paris until the war broke out in May 1940. Annette stopped attending school once the wearing of the yellow star was imposed. Curfews and other antisemitic restrictions were enforced. In 1941, the Germans began deporting Jews; Annette’s brother’s, Salomon and Charles, attempted to escape but were caught and sent to Auschwitz. Annette went to Pontelle to go in hiding while her mother remained in Paris, relatively safe under the protection of her husband. In the summer of 1941, Annette was sent to a village in the Massif Central on a bus destined towards Algeria. She remained in Clermont Ferland, a non-occupied town close to Vichy. She returned to Paris that winter, reuniting with her mother and her remaining siblings. After the war, Annette contracted tuberculosis and spent a year and a half recovering at a sanatorium. She married in Paris in 1949; her first daughter was born the following year. They immigrated to Montreal, Canada, in 1960 where they established a fur business.
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- WTH-519
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- Kleingrib, Annette
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- Warsaw, Poland, Europe
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- Montreal Holocaust Museum
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Lev, Jacob - Oral History of a Holocaust Survivor
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn60320
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- Jacob Lev was born in 1925 in Warsaw, Poland. He had ten siblings. He attended a Polish school. When the war broke out, he and his family were forced to live within the confines of the Warsaw Ghetto. On many occasions, Jacob would sneak out of the ghetto to look for food; this was known as a “smuggling child”. On one “smuggling” incident in 1942, Jacob was unable to re-enter the ghetto. He decided to run away to Krasnik as he had a cousin there, leaving his family behind. After liberation in 1944 by the Russians, Jacob returned to Warsaw but none of his family survived. He went to Lodz where he met his future wife, Zena.They went to Prague, Pilsen and Salzburg in Austria, and in 1946 they move to Bari, Italy, where they got married and had their first child. They were helped by the UNRRA. In 1948, they moved to Israel where Jacob served in the army and they had their second child. In 1953, they moved to Montreal where they had a third child. Together they ran a fruit store; however, adjusting to a new environment wasn’t easy. Jacob and Zena have one grandson.
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- WTH-481
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- Lev, Jacob
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- Warsaw, Poland, Europe
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- Montreal Holocaust Museum
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