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Alexander Eisen
- Accession Number
- 2016-11-13
- Source
- Archival Accessions
- Accession Number
- 2016-11-13
- Material Format
- graphic material
- textual record
- Physical Description
- 7 photographs : col. ; 10 x 15 cm
- 1 folder of textual records
- Date
- 2006
- Scope and Content
- Accession consists of 7 colour photographs of Eisen speaking to students, a thank you card signed by the students and student art work in response to the Holocaust.
- Administrative History
- Alexander Eisen was born in Vienna, Austria, in 1929. After the Anschluss in 1938, the Eisen family fled to Hungary. In 1939, Alex’s father was arrested and fled to Palestine, leaving his wife alone with their three children. Alex and the rest of the family endured the hardships of the Budapest Ghetto, but later managed to escape and live in hiding until being liberated by the Soviet Army in 1945. He immigrated with his wife Renate to Canada in 1952. Eisen is a Neuberger Holocaust Survivor Speaker and author of A Time of Fear (2010).
- Subjects
- Children
- Education
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
- Name Access
- Eisen, Alexander
- Places
- Toronto
- Source
- Archival Accessions