• Margaret Van Toen
    … MRS. GOLDBLOOM Now, let's head over to the Resource Centre where you can look up more information about your own family's trip. There are … to help you. The students leave via stage left. Meanwhile on the other side of stage, an official points towards the Immigration area to where another Immigration …
  • Joyce Emily Callow Sherwood
    … Joyce Emily Sherwood nee Callow with tributes by her sister Gwen Milton and her … to go home. We wrote to each other, he asked me to marry him, and I said yes. I left England on Friday, April 3, 1947 aboard the S.S. … to leave, to be with the person of my dreams, but it was also a sad time too because I had to leave my family. The train ride from …
  • Treur Case, Wilma, Sid C.
    … The Trip to the Land of Milk and Honey The Recollection by Simon (Sid) … the tube. This amazed them as they related this to me. The following day we left by train to go to Liverpool for departure to our new … Treur Case, Wilma, Sid C. …
  • Mels van der Laan
    … December 9, 1955 – Ryndam Born Melchior Franciscus van der Laan, the youngest of five children. The oldest being my brother Han, 17 years … truly, fondly known as Mels. Although very young at the time, I still can see the invading troops marching down the Dijk where I lived. I … in Halifax, NS and proceeded through Pier 21 and then on to Vernon, BC. Han worked for a Bill Osborne for a while. The conditions were …
  • Alexandra Dochmacka and Sofia Bain
    … upon the Jewish People and others during that time period. World War II, will be recorded in history, as the most cruel, the most horrible, … advance was, the Polish forces fought with skill and bravery at many points checking the German forces in series of fierce battles. During … Lithuania annexed the Vilna area. Russians and the KGB took over our City of Pinsk, where there were 80,000 inhabitants, 35-40,000, of these …
  • Mels Fr. van der Laan
    … Born Melchior Franciscus van der Laan, the youngest of five children. The oldest being my brother Han, 17 years … truly, fondly known as Mels. Although very young at the time, I still can see the invading troops marching down the Dijk where I lived. I … in Halifax, NS and proceeded through Pier 21 and then on to Vernon, BC. Han worked for a Bill Osborne for awhile. The conditions were …
  • Eva Kende nee Varadi
    … been living in Spain since the end of the civil war there, made her set aside all her fears and phobias and she declared that we are going. … our apartment testing the weight of the satchels and decided that we can handle carrying them for hours. My mother’s cousin gave us a large … early evening. The mood swung from sadness to nervous laughter and all points of emotion in between. In the early morning our rag-tag team …
  • Janet Thomson Boyle, daughter Beth
    … Isabella (Ella), and brother, Raeburn (Rae), especially after the death of their elder brother, Robert, in 1934. In 1940 she began … in the war and away from their own families to the Thomson home for Sunday dinner and Douglas, the 19-year-old Canadian, became a regular … at St. David’s on July 2 (the Sunday nearest Canada’s Dominion Day) wearing a robe made by one of Jan’s friends, cut from her own …
  • W.A.T. van den Byllaardt
    … on April 21, 1957, with the SS Ryndam, HAL. During the trip we had one day, rough stormy weather in the North Atlantic and the dining room did … the train made numerous stops and had long waits in nowhere. Every chance we had when the train stopped at a station, my travel … seen a house or farm, when we did see one it was a very run down shed with some barns around. Our thought was, how could anybody live …
  • Al and Agnes Kolarik
    … Immigrant Country of Origin: Czechoslovakia Ship Name: T.S.S. Nea Hellas Port of Entry: Pier 21, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada Date of … production was limited for use by the German army only. World War II was breaking out and Hitler’s primary ambition was the conquest of …