The Carleton University homepage is currently featuring a story by Lesley Barry that examines the Ottawa Holocaust survivors testimonials produced by the Centre for Holocaust Education and Scholarship. Here is an excerpt along with a link to the full story:
Kati Morrison was four years old when her grandmother pulled her and her year-old sister into the dimness of a stairwell and saved their lives. The three waited silently while the other 100 or so residents of the building – neighbours, friends, Kati’s great aunt – were marched away to the edge of the Danube, methodically lined up and shot. It was January 1945 in Budapest, Hungary and the Second World War and its black shadow, the Holocaust, had four murderous months left to run.
This chilling incident is part of Morrison’s story of surviving the Holocaust, which she tells with calm dignity. She has told it to countless students in the Ottawa area over the last 12 years, and now it is captured on film and available online as one of a collection of 10 stories that make up the Ottawa Holocaust Survivors Testimony Project.
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