Memoirs of Holocaust Survivors in Canada

Manuscript Collection No. 645

1999-2000. 0.4 Linear ft.

ACCESS AND PROVENANCE
The MEMOIRS OF HOLOCAUST SURVIVORS IN CANADA were donated to the Jacob Rader Marcus Center of the American Jewish Archives by Kurt Jonassohn and Mervin Butowsky of the Holocaust Surivors Memoir Project, Montreal, Canada in 1999-2000. All literary rights are held by the individual author or his/her heirs. Questions concerning rights should be addresed to the Executive Director of the American Jewish Archives. The papers are available to researchers in the reading room of the Marcus Center of the American Jewish Archives.
PROJECT SKETCH top
This project originated in the early 1990s when faculty members at the Canadian Jewish Studies Department of Concordia University of Montreal, Canada set out to collect unpublished memoirs of Holocaust survivors in Canada. Memoirs focused on the war period (1939-1945) but contained information about survivor's post-war existence. Memoirs written in Yiddish were translated into English. Following a grant from the Concordia University in Canadian Jewish Studies, limited numbers of published volumes were distributed to Canadian university libraries and Holocaust centers in other countries. These memoirs were also distributed on the Internet.
SCOPE AND CONTENT NOTE top
This material consists of single series of bound volumes of memoirs. Volume 8- Memoirs from Hungary contains an anthology of memoirs.
BOX AND FOLDER LISTING top
Box  Folder    Contents

SERIES A.
Box 1

Volume 1. To Sobibor and Back: An Eyewitness Account by Kalmen Wewryk.
Volume 2. Five to Ten: Story of a Hidden Child by Marcel Braitstein. 
Volume 3. From Slavery to Freedom by Nahum Halpern.
Volume 4. A Survivors Memoir by Jacob Gutman.
Volume 5. I Remember by Marcus Lecker.
Volume 6. Forces of Darkness by Rose Ickovits Weiss Svarc
Volume 7. Remnants by Charles Kotkowsky.
Volume 8. Nightmares by K. Charmatz.
Volume 9. Memoirs from Hungary by Gisele Schwarts-Somlo-Foti,
          Irene Romer, Pal Romer, Agnes Simon and Dolly Tiger.
Copyright © 2000 Jacob Rader Marcus Center of the American Jewish Archives