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| Name: | The Holocaust Centre of Toronto |
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| Affiliation: | UJA Federation of Greater Toronto |
| ADDRESS: | 4600 Bathurst St.
Toronto, Ontario M2R 3V2 |
| COUNTRY: | Canada |
| TELEPHONE NUMBER: | +(1-416) 635-2883 ext. 144 |
| FAX: | +(1-416) 635-1408 |
| EMAIL: | creed@ujafed.org |
| WEBSITE: | http://www.holocausteducationweek.com; http://www.jewishtoronto.com/section_display.html?ID=94 |
| OPERATING HOURS: | Monday - Thursday 9:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m., Friday 9:00 a.m. - 3:00 p.m. and Sunday 11:30 a.m .- 4:30 p.m. |
| CONTACT PERSON(S): | Primary Contact:
Mr. Adam Fuerstenberg, Director
Phone: +(1-416) 635-2883 ext. 144
Primary Contact:
Ms. Hannah Schwartz
Phone: +(1-416) 635-2883, ext.153
Primary Contact:
Ms. Mary Siklos, Administrator
Phone: +(1-416) 635-2883, ext.301
Email: msiklos@ujafed.org
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| GENERAL INFORMATION ABOUT THE ORGANIZATION: | The Holocaust Centre is dedicated to remembering the Shoah and educating the community and future generations.
Visitors view an audio-visual presentation portraying the experiences of European Jews before, during and after World War II. They have an opportunity to meet with a survivor speaker to hear about his/her experiences in the Holocaust. Visitors are also guided through the small museum which houses artifacts from the Holocaust.
The Centre is committed to the advancement of public awareness of the Holocaust and offers guidance in curriculum development, professional development courses and seminars for teachers, maintain a resource lending library and a survivors speakers bureau. |
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| OVERVIEW OF ORAL HISTORY COLLECTION: | Oral History interviews document the experiences of survivors, resistance fighters, Righteous Among the Nations, and liberators of concentration camps through audio and video tapes.
The Centre's collection reflects a cross section of the Holocaust experince - western, central and eastern European Jews, and a few from southern Europe. Wartime experiences include camps, passing, hiding, resistance and refugees and the birth dates of interviewees range from 1895 to the 1940's.
Volunteer interviewers were trained and usually supervised before being permitted to do solo interviews. Some interviews were conducted over several different days, but studio time was limited to two hours.
The "definition" of survivor was any Jew who lived in Nazi-occupied or allied regions, and German and Austrian Jewish refugees. This includes refugees interned in Canada 1940-1944 as "enemy aliens". It does not include Jews whose entire wartime experience was in Soviet controlled areas (although they have a few examples). Interviews were conducted with survivors primarily resident in the Greater Toronto area, although some were conducted with survivors from another parts of Canada.
The oral history interview program took place between 1985 and 1994 and is now complete. There are about 400 interviews (representing some 800 hours of video tape). About 50 interviews were conducted per year. Originals are on 3/4" U-matic tape; copies on VHS. |
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| Collect Holocaust Oral Histories: | No. |
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| Interview Guidelines: | Yes. |
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| Additional Information: | Interviewers were trained in small groups or one on one. |
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| Project Complete: | Yes. |
| Year of First Interview: | 1985 |
| Year of Last Interview: | 1994 |
| Interviews Per Year: | 50 |
| Average Hours Per Interview: | 2 |
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| RECORDING METHOD | |
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| Audio: | No. |
| Number of Audio Hours: | N/A |
| Total Number of Audio Interviews: | N/A |
| Number of Audio Reel-To-Reel Interviews: | N/A |
| Number of Audiocassette Interviews: | N/A |
| Number of Interviews in Other Audio Formats: | N/A |
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| Video: | Yes. |
| Number of Video Hours: | +-800 |
| Total Number of Video Interviews: | +-400 |
| Number of 1/2-inch Betacam-SP Interviews: | No. |
| Number of 3/4-inch U-matic Interviews: | +-400 |
| Number of 1/2-inch VHS interviews: | +-400 |
| Number of Film interviews: | No. |
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| RULES: | |
| Access to Collection: | Restricted. Information Not Available. |
| Special Requirements for Access or Use: | Formal request and description of project required. |
| Notice Required to Pull Tapes or Reserve Facility: | Yes. Limited access at this time. |
| Access Fee: | No. |
| Research Services: | No. |
| Research Fee: | N/A |
| Research Services Requirements: | N/A |
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| Permission Required for Use of Material in | |
| Publications: | Information Not Available. |
| Classrooms: | Information Not Available. |
| Public Lectures: | Information Not Available. |
| Documentaries: | Information Not Available. |
| How To Obtain permission: | Some tapes are restricted, permission must be obtained from the Centre. |
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| RESOURCES | |
| Format of Collection | |
| Video/Audio: | Yes, on video. |
| Transcripts: | No. |
| Other: | Resource Centre printed matter. |
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| On-Site Equipment | |
| Audio: | No. |
| Video: | Yes. |
| Users Can Bring Their Own: | Information Not Available. |
| Other: | Information Not Available. |
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| Finding Aids | |
| Guide to Collection Available: | Incomplete. |
| Published: | No. |
| Guide Cost: | N/A |
| Address to Obtain Guide: | N/A |
| Additional Information: | N/A |
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| Transcripts | |
| Audio: | N/A |
| Video: | No. |
| Available for photocopying: | No. |
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| Summaries | |
| Summarized: | N/A |
| Available for Photocopying: | N/A |
| Available on Disk: | N/A |
| Other: | Information Not Available. |
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| Indices | |
| Tapes Indexed: | No. |
| Transcripts Indexed: | N/A |
| Summaries Indexed: | N/A |
| Indices Available for Photocopying: | N/A |
| Indices Available on Disk: | N/A |
| Other: | N/A |
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| Cataloging Information | |
| Collection Cataloged: | Yes -- handwritten list. |
| Available on Computer: | N/A |
| Other: | N/A |
| MARC Format: | N/A |
| MARC Format Type: | N/A |
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| Internet Resources | |
| Web Address: | Information Not Available. |
| Transcripts: | N/A |
| Summaries: | N/A |
| Catalog: | No. |
| Indices: | N/A |
| Interview Clips: | No. |
| Other: | No. |
| Additional Information: | Information Not Available. |
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| Bibliographic Information | |
| Belong to: | Information Not Available. |
| OCLC: | N/A |
| RLIN: | N/A |
| Other: | N/A |
| Plan to Join: | Information Not Available. |
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| Loan or Purchase | |
| Material Available Through Interlibrary Loan: | No. |
| Loan by other collection: | No. |
| Loan Fee: | N/A |
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| DETAIL ABOUT COLLECTION CONTENT | |
| Demographic Information about Interviewees: | |
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| Total Number: | approximately 400 |
| Total Female: | 0 |
| Total Male: | 0 |
| No Data: | Information Not Available. |
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Other Information |
| Jews: | | | | Yes. |
| Roma and/or Sinti: | | | | Information Not Available. |
| Political Prisoners: | | | | Information Not Available. |
| Prisoners of War: | | | | Information Not Available. |
| Jehovah’s Witnesses: | | | | Information Not Available. |
| Homosexual Men/Lesbian Women: | | | | Information Not Available. |
| Resisters: | | | | Information Not Available. |
| Partisans: | | | | Yes. |
| Rescuers: | | | | Information Not Available. |
| Refugees: | | | | Yes. |
| Liberators: | | | | Information Not Available. |
| Prosecutors: | | | | Information Not Available. |
| Perpetrators/ Collaborators: | | | | Information Not Available. |
| Refugee Relief Workers: | | | | Information Not Available. |
| Other: | | | | Information Not Available. |
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| Additional Information: | Information Not Available. |
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| Focus of Collection: | |
| Ghetto(s) | | |
| Camp(s) | | |
| Geographic Area(s) | | |
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| Survivor Group(s) | | |
| Other | | |
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| Additional Information: | Information Not Available. |
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