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AC-S1-SS1-F6
Title
Morris Faintuch
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- 2011 (Creation)
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1 born digital moving image file in MP4 format (Moving Pictures Expert Group 4)
1 born digital textual transcript in PDF (Portable Document Format)
1 born digital textual transcript in PDF (Portable Document Format)
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(2010-)
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Research and Curation was established in 2010, when it was originally called Research, Content and Scholarship. In 2011, when Collections moved to the Design + New Media department (later called Design + New Media & Collections), the Research, Content and Scholarship department name was then changed to Research and Curation.
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This file consists of an oral history interview with Morris Faintuch, and associated documents. The interview was conducted by Clint Curle on August 31, 2011.
Mr. Faintuch speaks about:
• He and his family’s experiences as Jewish shop owners in Poland when Germany invaded in 1939.
• He and his family’s experiences during the Holocaust with the Nazis, Gestapo, camps and living in a ghetto.
• How he survived the Birkenau (Auschwitz II) concentration camp in Poland with Dr. Mengele, and his liberation from the Mauthausen concentration camp in Austria.
• His life in Winnipeg, his work speaking to students about his Holocaust experience, and why it is important to talk about the Holocaust.
Mr. Faintuch speaks about:
• He and his family’s experiences as Jewish shop owners in Poland when Germany invaded in 1939.
• He and his family’s experiences during the Holocaust with the Nazis, Gestapo, camps and living in a ghetto.
• How he survived the Birkenau (Auschwitz II) concentration camp in Poland with Dr. Mengele, and his liberation from the Mauthausen concentration camp in Austria.
• His life in Winnipeg, his work speaking to students about his Holocaust experience, and why it is important to talk about the Holocaust.
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Access to this material is restricted to users of the Canadian Museum for Human Rights Reference Centre. Please contact the Archivist at archivist [at] humanrights.ca to make an appointment to access this material.
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- English
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- Research and Curation (Creator)