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Raya Sitwell

Oral History interview with Rita Sitwell. Her family is from Vilna Poland. Her grandmother was a baker and would make all the traditional baked goods for the holidays. Rita talks about growing up in Vilna under communism and antisemitism in the USSR. They move to Israel in 1970, when Rita was 25. She talks about finding freedom in Israel and later Canada. Her family moved to Montreal. Rita worked as a hairdresser, she tried to work with Jewish people so she could switch to Yiddish when she didn’t know the English words. Her mother loved Montreal because it was better for her health than Israel. They all moved to Vancouver in 1974. Her and John got married in 2000 and she moved to Victoria with him.

[Boy on a bridge]

Photograph depicts an unidentified boy standing on a bridge in a photo studio, holding what appears to be the reigns of a sled.

Cecelia Sylvester

Photograph depicts Cecelia Sylvester standing in the yard of a house. Written on verso: "Cecelia Sylvester". Cecelia Sylvester was the wife of Frank Sylvester.

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