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Alex Levin
- Accession Number
- 2015-7-6
- Source
- Archival Accessions
- Accession Number
- 2015-7-6
- Material Format
- textual record
- Physical Description
- 1 folder of textual records
- Date
- [2010?]-[2015?]
- Scope and Content
- Accession consists of thank you cards from schools where Alex was a speaker, sharing his story of Holocaust survival.
- Administrative History
- Alex Levin (1932-2016) was born Joshua Levin in 1932 in Rokitno, Poland. (He was also known as Yehoshua and Shike.) Rokitno was occupied in 1941 by Nazi Germany and Alex escaped the Rokitno ghetto with his brother in 1942, hiding in the woods for eighteen months. Soviet troops found him in January of 1944 and invited him to join the 13th Army as a field hospital unit helper. Because his Yiddish nickname was unfamiliar (Shike, from his Hebrew name, Yehoshua), they called him Shura or Shurik, diminutive forms of Alexander, which became his formal name. He became an officer in the USSR and an engineer. He immigrated to Canada in 1975 and brought his family to join him in 1980.
- Subjects
- Education
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
- World War, 1939-1945
- Antisemitism
- Name Access
- Levin, Alex, 1932-
- Source
- Archival Accessions