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  • Alexandra Dochmacka and Sofia Bain
    Sofia Dochmacka Bain Polish Immigrant and Righteous Gentile Nelly May 5, 1951 Editors Note: Transcription of a talk given by Ms. Sofia Dochmacka Bain I am very proud, that Dr. Dehav invited me here today, so, that I will have the opportunity, to tell you about two brave people, my Mother, …
  • Bernardus T.J. Arts
    Bernardus (Ben) Theodorus Josephus Arts was born on March 3rd, 1931 in Lithoyen, Netherlands. Ben was 9 years old when World War II broke out and was 14 when it finished. He remembered the day the Germans invaded Holland, the buzz of VI and VII bombs and the explosions in the fields around his …
  • Nicola Ascenzo
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  • Stelios, Despina, Christos Aslanidis
    Stelios, Despina, Christos Aslanidis …
  • Gail Asper and Michael Paterson
    Gail Asper and Michael Paterson …
  • Nicholas J. Assuras
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  • Mary K. Bowes Astephen
    I was 24 years old when I came through Pier 21 in May, 1946. There is a picture of this sailing in the book "Pier 21: The Gateway That Changed Canada" by Trudy Duivenvoorden Mitic and J.P. Le Blanc. My husband, Stephen Astephen, was waiting for our four year old son, Francis, and me at the dock. We …
  • Kurt, Rita and Robert Aterman
    Kurt, Rita and Robert Aterman …
  • Bruce Eldon Myron Evans Ray
    As an eighteen-year-old army private, I arrived at the C.N.R. Station in Halifax, from Camp Borden, Ontario early one morning in October 1943. I was proud to join the military personnel aboard that train who marched from the train station to Pier 21 nearby. Over 700 enlisted men and women boarded …
  • Pasquale Augimeri and Family
    Pasquale Augimeri and Family …

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