Amek Adler was born in Lublin, Poland, in 1928 and grew up in Lodz. After Nazi occupation in 1939, his family escaped to Warsaw and then to Radom. In 1943, Amek was sent to Auschwitz-Birkenau, and from there was sent to a series of work camps and eventually shipped to Dachau, where his father and one brother perished. Amek was liberated on April 28, 1945. Amek worked with the Israeli Irgun Tzvai Leumi to help illegal immigrants into Palestine, and when he heard that his mother had survived he moved on to Sweden, where he married and started his own family. He immigrated to Canada in 1954, where he and his family built a new life for themselves.
We met Amek at Baycrest in September 2015, where he was interviewed for this project by Aaron Joshua, Jonah Patel, Charley Swartz, Rohan Narayanan, and Ted Kang.
Videos
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- 1. Amek Adler - Life before the War.mp4
- 2. Moving to Lodz; Jewish Life in Lodz.mp4
- 3. Leaving Lodz.mp4
- 4. Moving to Warsaw; The Story about the Hat.mp4
- 5. The Incident with a Hitlerjugend.mp4
- 6. Leaving Warsaw.mp4
- 7. The Radom Ghetto; The Crematoria.mp4
- 8. Amek's Work Camp.mp4
- 9. The Missing Man.mp4
- 10. The Traumatic Shooting.mp4
- 11. The Walk from Auschwitz to Radom.mp4
- 12. Slave Labour in Stuttgart, Germany.mp4
- 13. Natzweiler Camp.mp4
- 14. Arrival in Dachau.mp4
- 15. A Prisoner in Dachau; Disease.mp4
- 16. Escape from the Death March in Austria.mp4
- 17. Liberation by the American Army.mp4
- 18. Reunion with Ben Adler.mp4
- 19. Reunion with his Older Brother.mp4
- 20. Dachau and Majdanek; His Mother and General Eisenhower.mp4
- 21. Visiting his Brother in Ancona, Italy.mp4
- 22. Joining a Kibbutz and Obtaining a Passport.mp4
- 23. Postwar Life - Sweden.mp4
- 24. The Irgun.mp4
- 25. The Irgun, Part 2.mp4
- 26. On the Train from Rome to Calabria.mp4
- 27. Sweden to Canada.mp4
- 28. 1950s Toronto.mp4
- 29. Revisiting the Past.mp4
