"'We Started Over Again, We Were Young:' Postwar Social Worlds of Child Survivors in Montreal"

Nataša C.S.

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This factsheet provides a snapshot of Sheftel and Zembrzycki’s piece on child Holocaust survivors who came to Montreal, Quebec after World War II. Quebec, at the time, was antisemitic, ethnically, religiously and linguistically divided and the pre-existing Jewish community struggled to establish their place. Sheftel and Zembrzycki describe how social groups were used by child Holocaust survivors in Montreal to establish their own place in the community.

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References

  • Sheftel, Anna, and Zembrzycki, Stacey. "'We Started Over Again, We Were Young': Postwar Social Worlds of Childhood Holocaust Survivors in Montreal." In The Age of Light, Soap and Water: Moral Reform in English Canada 1885-1925, (2008): 104-128. Toronto: University of Toronto Press.

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