Ottawa Holocaust Survivors' Testimonials - Full Length Videos | Centre for Holocaust Education and Scholarship

Watch and listen to 11 Ottawa Holocaust survivors share their stories. Each video is approximately 30 minutes in length.

Recording these testimonials was CHES’s first major project. In spring and summer of 2016 CHES members dedicated to interviewing and professionally recording film testimonies of ten Holocaust survivors who live in Ottawa. An 11th was later added and filmed with a hand-held camcorder.

Realizing that the weight of teaching the Holocaust poses challenges for educators and students helped us to focus the rationale and develop the following goal for the project: to document and preserve the testimonies of Ottawa Holocaust survivors as primary sources of oral history mediated through film and with broad online access.

Our hope is that the testimonies will allow future generations of students, researchers, teachers, and others to hear and see the people who experienced and witnessed the genocidal policies and crimes of the Nazis and their collaborators.

Elly Bollegraaf

Elly Bollegraaf, born in 1940 in Amsterdam, Netherlands. Survived as a hidden child in the south of Holland.

Tova Clark

Tova Clark, born in 1939 in Opeln, Germany. Child survivor, survived in Shanghai, China.

Jessica Fiksel

Jessica Fiksel, born in 1930 in Lwow, Poland, died in 2020 in Ottawa, Ont Canada. Child survivor, survived by hiding in a barn dugout for 22 months.

Vera Gara

Vera Gara, born in 1933 in Vienna, Austria. Child survivor, survived the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp.

Dr. Agnes Klein, MD

Dr. Agnes Klein, MD, born in 1937 in Brasov, Romania. Child survivor, survived on a farm in Romania.

Raoul Korngold

Raoul Korngold, born in 1936 in Strasbourg, France. Child survivor, survived under false identity in France.

Cantor Kraus

Cantor Kraus, born in 1923 in Uzhorod, Czechoslovakia, died in 2023 in Ottawa, Ont Canada. Survived Bor labor camp (Serbia) and the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp.

Kati Morrison

Kati Morrison, born in 1940, Budapest, Hungary. Child survivor, survived in a safe house and in Budapest Ghetto.

David Moskovic

David Moskovic, born in 1929 in Koňuš, Czechoslovakia. Survived Bunalager (Buna) slave labor camp and Buchenwald concentration camp.

Judy Young Drache

Judy Young Drache, born in 1943 in Budapest, Hungary. Child survivor, survived as a hidden baby in Budapest.

Dr. Erwin Koranyi

Dr. Erwin Koranyi, born in Budapest, Hungary in 1924. Survived with the help of a Schutz-pass given to him by Raoul Wallenberg.

Ottawa Holocaust Survivors’ Testimonials – Full Length Videos