As we grow the HSO Ottawa Million Strong story collection, we invite you to share your stories with the HSO Memory Project team.
So many of our family stories are those of immigrants and refugees of some kind, and the Weiss family story is certainly no exception.
Historical Society of Ottawa member Ben Weiss sat down with the HSO Memory Project team and shared the story of how his mother, a WWII Dutch war bride, and his father, a Canadian soldier and son of early 1900s Jewish refugees from Eastern Europe, met during the Liberation of the Netherlands, and were later drawn to settle in Ottawa during the post-war boom years of federal public service expansion:
Would you like to sit down for an interview with the HSO Memory Project team to share your family’s story?
Visit our HSO Memory Project web page to learn more: www.historicalsocietyottawa.ca/publications/memory-project
