Following WWII, approximately 40,000 Holocaust survivors resettled in Canada. Ottawa became home to many of those Holocaust survivors and hundreds of their descendants.

Phil Emberley shares his father Dieter's experience as one of the 10,000 Jewish children evacuated by the British government before the start of WWII from his home in Germany.

View this recording our Phil Emberley’s November 2025 HSO Speaker Series presentation: www.historicalsocietyottawa.ca/resources/videos/speaker-series/a-holocaust-testimonial-my-father-s-story