concentration camps

Taxonomy

Code

Scope note(s)

Source note(s)

Display note(s)

Hierarchical terms

concentration camps

Equivalent terms

concentration camps

Associated terms

concentration camps

5 Archival description results for concentration camps

Ascending

5 results directly related Exclude narrower terms

George Kowalsky collection

  • CA BMUFA 0276
  • Collection
  • 1945-1946

The collection consists of published and unpublished chapters of George Kowalsky's memoirs about the Auschwitz and Dachau concentration camps in 1943 and 1944. The memoirs were partly published in 1946 in the "Christian Road. Ukrainian religious-social weekly," a Ukrainian language periodical disseminated among Ukrainian DP in Germany. Besides that, the collection is comprised of an English translation of one part of the memoirs, one religious poster, one photograph (portrait), a typed concert program where father Kowalsky was a choir conductor, and a typed statistics of deaths in Dachau by April 29, 1945.

Kowalsky, George

Interview with anonymous

Interview with anonymous

This item contains an interview in German with an interviewee who wishes to remain anonymous.
Her father came from a rich family. In Russia rich people were prosecuted and displaced to the East Siberia to starve at the time of Bolshevism. The interviewee and her family moved to the next bigger city so her father was not displaced but he was unemployed for a long time. Interviewee went to a German school and was always afraid that her father might get arrested, because many people got arrested in this time. Thus they decided to move to Omsk / Siberia, where it was very cold. Her father could not find a job so they moved to Slavgorod a place where many Germans lived. She and her siblings were able to go to the German school again.
The family had a hard living and her father still was unemployed, then he got ill and died in the spring. After that her mother sold all personal belongings from her father (tools, violin) and the family got back to Ukraine. Her mother had to work and the interviewee lived with her aunt. When Hitler took power in Germany, Germans abroad were prosecuted and displaced again. One night her uncle got arrested and they never heard from him again. She lived in fear that her mother might get arrested too. After the WW2 they were living in West Germany until her uncle helped them to move to Canada. She is talking about deportations during the war. Her brother came to a concentration camp in Russia after the war and was arrested there for 10 years. When Stalin died he was set free. In the next ten years her brother has been taken for interrogation over and over again. He was living in a constant fear that he might get imprisoned again. The interviewee is saying that the church had no power in Communism. Later in Canada the interviewee was able to go to the Catholic church again.

She talks about arriving to Canada. Says that Canadians let her feel that Germany was the country who started the WW2. Talks about her husband (Canadian) who was injured in the war. She says her children are the real Canadians, she loves Canada as well and does not want to return.

Whitfield, Veronika

Ivan Lahola collection

  • CA BMUFA 0269
  • Collection
  • 1903 - 1996

Collection includes biographical materials about Lahola and his family, Correspondence between Lahola and different individuals and organizations, Lahola's life during World War 2: his experience in Auswitch, and various other prisons and concentration camps. Includes textual records of Lahola's community life in Canada, published materials, and miscellaneous information. Correspondence includes letters from the Committee for the Construction of the Greek Catholic Cathedral of the Intercession of the Blessed Virgin thanking Lahola for the donation of $100 for the construction of the cathedral (May 17, 1993), letters from the UCC President O. Romaniv thanking Lahola for his $500 donation to the Ukrainian Embassy Foundation in Canada, Ukrainian Public Committee a monument to Taras Shevchenko in Lviv with a request for a donation of money and thanking them for the donation; a letter from the Regional Cathedral of St. John the Baptist with a money donation request; a catalog of the Ukrainian samizdat "Torch" (1985-1986) and letters from the editors about sending books, a thank you letter from the Research Program of Ukrainian Churches for a donation of 10 dollars; greeting cards with Christmas, Easter, Mother's Day, etc. Printed materials include a program of the concert in honour of the first visit of Cardinal Joseph Slipyi on the Congress of Ukrainian Catholics of Canada in Edmonton (June 30, 1968, design of the stage and program of V. Dobrolizh); an invitation to the Ukrainian Day on August 10th, 1980 and the unveiling of the monument by to Leo Mol "Ukrainian Family", an invitation to the Mourning Academy of the 50th anniversary of the Holodomor (November 6, 1983) in Edmonton, along with other invitations and programs.

Lahola, Ivan

  • Results

  • 5

  • No. narrower terms

  • 0