Fait partie de JHSBC Oral History Collection
Oral history interview with Anat Grebler - and her families' history - who was born in the U.S.S.R in 1945 to parents who were active in the Polish Underground during the Second World War. Her father was born in Stanislaw (now Ivano-Frankivsk), Poland and her mother was born in Gdansk, Poland. The family emigrated to Israel in 1957 to escape the Hungarian Revolution.
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Fait partie de JHSBC Oral History Collection
Oral History of Susan Quastel. Mrs. Quastel was born in Amsterdam in 1923. During the early part of WW2 she worked at the Jewish Hospital in Amsterdam. After the war she moved to London, where she had family. While in the UK, she trained to be a nurse at Charing Cross Hospital. She then went to Israel, where her sister lived, and worked at Hadassah Hospital. During her time in Israel, she met her husband, who was from Vancouver, at the Hebrew University. She moved to Canada with him and they got married here. In Vancouver, she worked for many Jewish organizations including Hadassah, The National Council of Jewish Women, the Vancouver chapter of Canadian Friends of The Hebrew University, and the Zack Gallery.
Group of women sitting around a table
Fait partie de Dr. Irving and Phyliss Snider fonds
Colour Kodachrome 35mm slide depicts a group of women sitting around a table that has drinks on it.
Boat filled with people with buildings in the background
Fait partie de Dr. Irving and Phyliss Snider fonds
Colour Kodachrome 35mm slide depicts a boat filled with people with buildings in the background.
Fait partie de JHSBC Oral History Collection
Oral history interview with Manfred Carsh who was born in 1922 in Europe. Interview covers the business and family lives prior to and during the outbreak of WW2; details of Kristallnacht; effects on the family, forced out of their home, forced to sell the business for pennies on the dollar to Germans, as did other Jewish businesses.
Group of people feeding pigeons in a square
Fait partie de Dr. Irving and Phyliss Snider fonds
Colour Kodachrome 35mm slide depicts a group of people feeding pigeons in a square.
Fait partie de Dr. Irving and Phyliss Snider fonds
Colour Kodachrome 35mm slide depicts a river with a boat in the foreground and buildings on the right and cars and trees on the left of the image.
Four handwritten receipts on a sidewalk
Fait partie de Dr. Irving and Phyliss Snider fonds
Colour Kodachrome 35mm slide depicts four handwritten receipts on a sidewalk.
Fait partie de JHSBC Oral History Collection
Oral history interview with Joanne Rosenbaum who was born in Vancouver, 1930.
Fait partie de JHSBC Oral History Collection
Oral history interview with Margaret Libbert who was born in the former Moravian capital of Brno in 1928, than part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. Margaret discusses the challenges her family faced having to uproot themselves and relocate to England when Germany invaded Austria in 1938. The family landed in Montreal initially but travelled by train and arrived in Vancouver by 1940. Margaret studied International Relations and Russia at UBC, she was on the Students Council and first woman elected President of Literary and Scientific executive at UBC. She than worked for the government of Canada.