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Kołodziej, Marian

  • Pessoa
  • 1921 - 2009

Marian Kołodziej was a Polish Catholic born in 1921. He was a former political prisoner during World War II and among the earliest prisoners brought to Auschwitz (Prisoner 432). Although he did not speak of his time in Auschwitz for roughly 50 years, Marian began using ink and pen to depict his memories from the Holocaust as a method of rehabilitation after suffering a stroke in 1993. These drawings have been shared and exhibited in various ways, including as an art exhibit in Poland. Marian is also featured in a documentary called The Labyrinth, which further explores Marian's eyewitness testimony of the Holocaust through his drawings.

Ritterband, Olly

  • Pessoa

Olly Ritterband was born to a Jewish family in Transylvania, Romania. On May 8th, 1944, Olly and her family were taken to Auschwitz. In January 1945, they were marched to Bergen-Belsen. She was able to stay with her mother and sister Alice while they were at the camps, and reunited with her brother after the war. They went to Sweden with many other refugees after liberation in 1945, settling in Stockholm for five years. In 1950, Olly moved to Denmark with her husband and they had two daughters (Susan and Monica). She began producing artworks and, in 1957, made her first mosaic. Her first exhibition of mosaics was in Copenhagen in 1969, before attending art school in 1971 to further develop her technique. She also exhibited her mosaics in Rostock (1973) and Moscow (1974), and her oil paintings at the Jewish Museum in New York (1975). Olly had not incorporated her experiences during the Holocaust directly in her artworks until 1978, for her exhibit "Kaddish - a mourner's prayer for my father" at the Museum of Danish Resistance 1940-1945 (Frihedsmuseet). In her memoir "Will to Survive," she writes that she was initially conflicted about revisiting that time in her life due to the pain it brought, but she was motivated to share her experiences in order to refute Holocaust deniers.

Celinski, Usher

  • Pessoa
  • 1915 - 1984

Usher Celinski was born in Skarżysko-Kamienna. During World War II, he was forced to work in a factory in Skarżysko before being taken to the concentration camp of Buchanwald. After liberation in 1945, Celinski and the other former prisoners of Buchenwald stayed at nearby military barracks for a time. His cousin, Rachel Bernstein, lived in Canada and began corresponding with him once she discovered he survived. She introduced him to Briane Sherman, a volunteer in the Canadian armed forces, who helped him gain entry papers to come to Canada. With these papers, Usher was able to move to Montreal in 1948 and he married Briane soon after.

Orr, John

  • Pessoa

Colonel John Orr joined the Royal Canadian Navy in September 1963 and graduated in 1967 from the Royal Military College of Canada. Selected for aircrew training, he completed five operational tours on the Sea King helicopter culminating in command of 423 Squadron. A graduate of the Canadian Armed Forces Command and Staff College, Colonel Orrhas served in a variety of command and staff positions with two appointments to the Middle East; first as the Canadian Forces AttacheI

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