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Life Stories: Displaced By War, Genocide and Violence
 

We invite all persons displaced by violence to reflect on and share their life experiences, here.

We launch this dossier with Life Stories of Montrealers displaced by War, Genocide, and other Human Rights Violations. This five-year oral history project explores survivors' experiences and memories of mass violence and displacement. A team comprised of dozens of university and community-based researchers are in the process of recording life story interviews with more than 500 Montreal residents from Rwanda, Cambodia, Haiti, Latin America, and South Asia, as well as Holocaust survivors.
 

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We Started Over Again, We Were Young
We Started Over Again, We Were Young
"We Started Over Again, We Were Young" :  Postwar Social Worlds of Child Holocaust Survivors in MontrealThis movie empl...
I was there
I was there
4 women coming from Colombia, Rwanda, Haiti and Cambodia.  They all lived in a conflict zone. Short documentary film m...
Bearing Witness in Holocaust Education : Survivors Reflect on Sharing Their Stories
Bearing Witness in Holocaust Education : Survivors Reflect on Sharing Their Stories
This video employs short clips from life story interviews done withHolocaust survivors who have acted as educators in Mo...
Pictures of Departure
Pictures of Departure
Sari Greenberg was born in Poland on November 25th, 1939.  She told her story....
Maudit Juif - A Digital Story by Manuel Cohen
Maudit Juif - A Digital Story by Manuel Cohen
Manuel Cohen was born in 1924 in Montreal.  He, and a life-long friend who is still alive, Harry Heit, were born in tha...
The Woman Who Hid My Father - A Digital Story by Manuel Cohen
The Woman Who Hid My Father - A Digital Story by Manuel Cohen
Manuel Cohen was born and raised in Montreal and his father had been born in Poland. In 1939 Manuel’s father got to Po...
The Batory Ship - A digital story by Manuel Cohen
The Batory Ship - A digital story by Manuel Cohen
The Batory Ship or How Manuel found out what happened to his fatherManuel Cohen was born in 1924 in Montreal to a Jewish...
I've Brought a Survivor Into my Class: Teacher and Student Perspectives
I've Brought a Survivor Into my Class: Teacher and Student Perspectives
This video presents clips of interviews conducted in the context of the Life Stories of Montrealers Displaced by War, Ge...
Sudanese-Canadian, Abousfian Abdelrazik’s Story Reads Like Spy Novel
Everyone has an intriguing life story to tell. We have all experienced significant moments that alter the course of our ...
'Life in the open prison' discussion @ La Cinémathèque
'Life in the open prison' discussion @ La Cinémathèque
An open discussion with the teacher Megan Webster, students, Elie Dawang, Holocaust survivor who volunteered in Phnom Pe...
Life in the Open Prison
Life in the Open Prison
'Life in the Open Prison' is a short documentary produced by 11 students from St-George's High School in Montreal, Quebe...
Tragic Incident in Hamburg - A digital story by Liselotte Ivry
Tragic Incident in Hamburg - A digital story by Liselotte Ivry
Liselotte (Epstein) Ivry, was born into a Jewish family on the 7th of July, 1925, in Lichtenstein, Czechoslovakia. In 19...
The Poem from Majdanek - A digital story by Liselotte Ivry
The Poem from Majdanek - A digital story by Liselotte Ivry
Liselotte Ivry, a witness to the Holocaust, frequently speaks of her experience in front of school groups. Many children...
Life in the Open Prison: Students' Q & A
Life in the Open Prison: Students' Q & A
Live question and answer discussion after the premier screening of 'Life in the Open Prison' at St. Georges High School....
Life in the Open Prison trailer
Life in the Open Prison trailer
Trailer for the short documentary 'Life in the Open Prison'...
Rebecca Goce in "Childhood Disrupted"
Rebecca Goce in "Childhood Disrupted"
Excerpt from the short film "Childhood Disrupted", based on the interviews from the Project Life Stories of Montrealers,...
Liselotte Ivry in "Childhood Disrupted"
Liselotte Ivry in "Childhood Disrupted"
Excerpt from the short film "Childhood Disrupted", based on the interviews from the Project Life Stories of Montrealers,...
Professor Frank Chalk: Surviving a Genocide - A historical perspective
Professor Frank Chalk: Surviving a Genocide - A historical perspective
The Rwandan Genocide - 15 Years After: Survivors, Justice Memory...
Henry Greenspan: "Sharing Authroity in Interpreting Survivor Testimony: A Worthy and Realistic Goal?" part 1
Henry Greenspan: "Sharing Authroity in Interpreting Survivor Testimony: A Worthy and Realistic Goal?" part 1
A lecture by Henry Greenspan facilitated by Concordia University's Centre for Oral History and Digital Storytelling, the...
The Legend of the Necklace
The Legend of the Necklace
 Inspired by real life stories, this story unfolds in Tibet, a land high above the seas, underneath the skies....
Playback Theatre: Special Debriefing Session for Life Stories Interviewers
Playback Theatre: Special Debriefing Session for Life Stories Interviewers
Nisha Sajnani and Creative Alternatives offer interviewers an original method of reflecting on their experiences, by usi...
Leben? Oder Theater
Leben? Oder Theater
Natalie Pendergast presents the work of Jewish artist Charlotte Salomon, which relates to her family history, through va...
Someone Between
Someone Between
Based in oral history, Someone Between is a play about a young Cambodian-Canadian woman st...
2 years 2 many (Part 2)
2 years 2 many (Part 2)
What if you had to wait up to two years for your refugee status to be determined? For refugees coming to Canada, this is...
2 years 2 many (Part 1)
2 years 2 many (Part 1)
What if you had to wait up to two years for your refugee status to be determined? For refugees coming to Canada, this is...
Life Stories of Montrealers Youth Media Workshops Cote-des-neiges
Life Stories of Montrealers Youth Media Workshops Cote-des-neiges
The project is a collaborative effort between the Canadian Council for Refugees, Mapping Memories, and Life Stories of C...
Iraqi Refugees: The View from Syria
Iraqi Refugees: The View from Syria
Did you know? 1 in 5 Iraqis have been uprooted by violence in their homeland. Many have fled to Syria where the situati...
Iraqi Refugees: Khaled's Story
Iraqi Refugees: Khaled's Story
Did you know? 1 in 5 Iraqis have been uprooted by violence in their homeland. Many have fled to Syria where the situati...
Jean Paul Samputu forgives
Jean Paul Samputu forgives
Rwanda 1994. "One million people were killed in 90 days," Jean Paul reminds us. But he forgives the enemy: he forgives h...
Vera Vertes talks about her arrival to Auschwitz
Vera Vertes talks about her arrival to Auschwitz
Vera Vertes, born in 1928, in Hungary, was the eldest of three sisters, raised in a well-to-do family. With the German i...
Introduction to the Life Stories Project
Introduction to the Life Stories Project
Lucho van Isschot introduces the CURA Life Stories project, and the sharing authority approach, which is intrinsic to t...
Suzana Kohn points out the importance of sharing her experiences
Suzana Kohn points out the importance of sharing her experiences
Suzana Kohn was born in 1926 in Yugoslavia. At the age of seventeen she was deported together with the whole family to...
Walter Absil explains the origin of his last name
Walter Absil explains the origin of his last name
Walter Absil was born in 1928 in Vienna Austria. After the annexation of Austria into greater Germany in 1938, his fat...
Agnes Foldes speaks of her first degradation
Agnes Foldes speaks of her first degradation
Agnes Foldes was born in 1927 in Baja, Hungary; a town which was invaded by the German army in April 1944.  After spe...
Steven Lesniak's rescue by Oskar Schindler
Steven Lesniak's rescue by Oskar Schindler
Steven Lesniak was born 1921 in Krakow, Poland. In March 1941, Steven's family was taken to the newly created Jewish g...
Liselotte Ivry describes her liberation from Bergen-Belsen
Liselotte Ivry describes her liberation from Bergen-Belsen
Liselotte Ivry, born 1925 in Czechoslovakia, was first deported to Theresienstadt and in late 1943 to Auschwitz-Birkenau...
Liselotte describes life in Theresienstadt ghetto
Liselotte describes life in Theresienstadt ghetto
Liselotte Ivry was born 1925 in a small village in Czechoslovakia, where she and her brother Hans were the only Jewish c...
Arbitrary Violence in Concentration Camps
Arbitrary Violence in Concentration Camps
Sacha Friedenstein was born in 1925 in Riga Latvia. Right after the German Army invaded Latvia in the summer of 1941, th...
Dr. Henry Greenspan
Dr. Henry Greenspan
 Dr. Henry Greenspan is a psychologist and playwright at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor who has been writing a...
The Tree that Remembers
The Tree that Remembers
A film about the betrayal of the 1979 Iranian revolution and the tenacity of the human spirit....
Into the Spirit of a Lost Nation
Into the Spirit of a Lost Nation
This documentary is an attempt to rewrite Tibetan history, by the stories and the memories of the TIBETAN CANADIAN livin...
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Pictures of Departure - Video Thumbnail
Rebecca Gose in "Childhood Disrupted" - Video Thumbnail
Life in the Open Prison - Poster
Life in the Open Prison - A Student Documentary Film
Life in the Open Prison - Using life story interviews to understand more about the Cambodian genocide
Life Stories Project Members
Playback Theatre - Oral History and Performance
Rights Here! Street Theatre in Montreal
Rights Here! Street Theatre
My Name is Rachel Corrie
Emmanuelle Sonntag in conversation with Frantz Voltaire
Emmanuelle Sonntag in conversation with Frantz Voltaire

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