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Perkal, Stephen - Oral History of a Holocaust Survivor
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn67774
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- WITNESS TO HISTORY COLLECTION (MHMC-02)
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- moving images
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- Collection
- WITNESS TO HISTORY COLLECTION (MHMC-02)
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- moving images
- Physical Description
- 11:13:00
- Language
- English
- Notes
- Stephen Perkal was born on December 14, 1914 in Zelechow, Poland (Russia). As a young man, he became a member of the Bund. In the spring of 1939, he was asked to conduct a campaign for the party in Mi?dzyrzec, Poland. When the war broke out, Stephen fled the city and went to Vilnius, a Polish town at the time. Upon the Lithuanian take over in fall 1939, Stephen had to move again. He stayed near Kaunas, Lithuania, until the end of 1940. He eventually got a visa from Chiune Sugihara to enter Japan. He took the train from Moscow to Vladivostok then embarked on a ship to Kobe. After Germany attacked Russia, Stephen was forced to leave Japan. He went to Shanghai and stayed there from 1941 to 1947. He went to University and worked in a textile factory. At the beginning of 1947, he received permission to immigrate to Canada. He became a student at McGill University. Later, he worked for international unions and became an active member of the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation. Stephen married a Christian Montrealer, has two daughters and several grandchildren.
- Accession No.
- WTH-393
- Name Access
- Perkal, Stephen
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
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Perkal, Stephen - Oral History of a Holocaust Survivor
https://www.youtube.com/embed/qY9oWk7uKkw
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