Oral history interview with Esther Levi (nee Liman) who was originally from Czernowitz, Austria and moved to Balgonie, Saskatchewan. She lived in Vancouver with her first husband and later moved to Victoria. Esther was involved with the Hadassah Bazaar, Jewish Community Centre, and Louis Brier Home.

Oral history interview with Max Dodek who was born in 1900, in the shtetl of Karalufka, some 200 miles outside of Vienna, Austria.

Oral history interview with Leon Braverman who was born in Ganchasti, Bessarbia in 1890. He learned to be a watchmaker in Russia. Started his own watchmaking business which collapsed, he than worked at Birks jewelry store in Vancouver, than Miller's Jewelers.

Oral history interview with Sally Tall who was born in Austria in 1900. Sally was involved in the Hadassah in Montreal and volunteer Jewish General Hospital during WWII.

Oral history interview with Fanka Gaerber who was born 1913 in Stanislav, Galicia. She recounts her experiences of being Jewish in Eastern Europe during the 30's, 40's, escaping the holocaust and the endless terror of years of war.

Oral history interview with Max Dodek & M. & E. Rosenblatt. Max was born 1900 in Karalufka.

Oral history interview with Helen (nee Grunbaum) Rosen. Helen volunteered by teaching remedial reading through the Council of Jewish Women. Worked for Red Cross for 25 years in a variety of roles: circulating nurse, Blood Bank and took in a foster child.

Oral history interview with Hilda Lourie, who was born in 1900. Hilda was involved in Vancouver's Hadassah chapter as President at one time, a part of the National Council of Jewish Women and of Schara Tzedeck’s Sisterhood

Oral history interview with David Rubin who was born in Transylvania, 1923. He was drafted into a working / bomb clearing battalion of the Hungarian Army in 1944. David chose to come to Canada in 1957 because he had heard it was the country of the future. The Canadian consulate chose Vancouver as his destination. Taught in Ottawa and was recommended to be the reader at Beth Israel Synagogue.

Oral History interview with Ben and Rita Akselrod. Rita was born in Bacau, Romania. They met in a DP camp in Austria. After the war they went to Israel then came to Canada via Italy. They worked as a peddlers then with antiques. Then started a second-hand and antique store in New Westminster. They talk about how antisemitism didn't disappear after the war.