New Search
Photo Search
Audiovisual Search
Mania Kay - 27 Oct. 2007
- Name
- Mania Kay
- Material Format
- moving images
- Interview Date
- 27 Oct. 2007
- Source
- Oral Histories
- Name
- Mania Kay
- Number
- OH 328
- Subject
- Kitchener-Waterloo
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
- immigration
- Synagogues
- Kitchener Holocaust Committee
- keeping kosher
- Concentration camps
- Interview Date
- 27 Oct. 2007
- Quantity
- 1 mini DV; 1 archival DVD; 1 reference DVD
- Interviewer
- Sharon Gubbay Helfer
- Total Running Time
- 2 hours
- Notes
- Part of Ontario Small Jewish Communities Project. Copy of notes has been saved here: G:\Description\Oral Histories\OH 328 Kay
- Use Restrictions
- Copyright is held by the Ontario Jewish Archives. Please contact the archives to obtain permission prior to use.
- Biography
- Living in Oswiecim, Poland, Mania Kay was nineteen years old when the Nazis marched in and captured her and her family. Although her family perished, Mania survived the Holocaust and spent most of her life speaking out against racism and her experiences in Auschwitz and Bergen-Belsen. Mania's mission was to not allow those who perished to be forgotten. Mania was one of the founding members of the Waterloo Region Holocaust Education Committee.
- Mania came to Canada in 1948 with her husband, Moishe Yaakov, himself a Holocaust survivor. They lived in Kitchener, Ontario, where they opened a tailor shop. Mania and Moishe raised two daughters, Shirley and Molly. Mania died in November 2012 at the age of ninety.
- Material Format
- moving images
- Geographic Access
- Poland
- Kitchener (Ont.)
- Waterloo (Ont.)
- Original Format
- Mini DV
- Copy Format
- DVD
- Source
- Oral Histories