We are pleased to share the complete project of Ottawa Holocaust Survivor Testimonies Phase I on our website. The ten half hour videos were professionally produced with the latest in technology. The recordings present a unique Ottawa base collection of Holocaust survivor testimonies.
The videos detail the survivors’ experiences before, during, and after the Holocaust. They include different survival experiences: surviving ghettos in Hungary, Nazi slave labor camps in Germany, Nazi death camps in Poland, surviving in hiding in non-Jewish homes in Holland and France, hiding in a dugout in the Ukraine and surviving as refugees in Romania and Shanghai.
Each story is unique and in its own way and offers a glimpse into what it must have been like to live through the traumatic events of the Holocaust. The videos represent the lived experience of the survivors and were made with the expectation that they can be used in educational settings to teach about the Holocaust.
While the videos are based on the survivors’ experiences and memories, the producers have checked the facts and aimed at presenting each story as accurately as possible.
The original, unedited video interviews made with the Ottawa Holocaust survivors will also be available at the archives of Carleton University’s MacOdrum Library to researchers, students, and educators upon request.
Please click here to view 30 second excerpts of each video, or click here for the longer versions.
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