Antiracist History & Theory

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

Nataša C.S.

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Description

This factsheet provides a snapshot of Sheftel and Zembrzycki’s work on the lives of child Holocaust survivors who came to Montreal, Quebec, after World War II. It explains how Quebec, at the time, was antisemitic as well as ethnically, religiously and linguistically divided. This affected the lives of both the pre-existing Jewish Canadian community in Montreal and the children they took in. It describes 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.

Keywords

Agency, Antisemitic Rhetoric, Antisemitism, Canadian Jewish Congress, Canadian Jewish Youth, Challenging Times, Child Holocaust Survivors, Child Survivors, Communal Centres, Communal Space, Community-created Centre, Concentration-camp survivor syndrome, Dances, Defied Destruction, Development and Progress, Diagnoses, Education, Employment Opportunities, Equal Grounds, Ethnic Division, Fun, Gatherings, Guest Lectures, Holocaust, Holocaust Education, Holocaust Survivors, Housing, Housing Options, Immigrants, Immigration, Independent, Institutions, Integrating, Jeanne-Mance House, Jewish Communal Spaces, Jewish Community, Jewish Public Library, Jewish Social Services, Language Barrier, Language Lessons, Legacy, Lifelong Friendships, Linguistic Division, Linguistic Lines, Memories, Narratives, Nazi Project, Necessities, Network, New-found Freedom, Newcomer Groups, oral history, Orphaned Survivors, Orphans, Postwar Montreal, Postwar World, Prewar Jewish Community, Public Testimony, rebuilding lives, Refugee Housing, Refugee Youth, Refugees, Religious Division, Resourcefulness, Resources, Segregation, Sense of Safety, Silenced, Silencing Victims, Social Clubs, Social Workers, Social Worlds, Speeches, Support Club, Supportive Space, Survival Strategies, Survivor Adjustment, Survivor Agency, Survivor History, Survivor Housing, Survivor Oral History, Survivor Perspectives, Survivors' Perspectives, Survivors' Stories, Synagogues, Temporary Housing, Testimony, War Orphans, War Orphans Project, Wartime Experiences, Workforce, Young Men's and Young Women's Hebrew Association

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History