AHC interview with Ilse Matalon.

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May 4, 2080:01:42-0:08:05, 0:32:01-0:34:41 Childhood memories0:08:07-0:19:02 Father sent to camp and escaping Vienna0:19:04-0:22:18 Arriving in Montreal0:22:19-0:24:51 Being taken to Nazi rallies0:24:53-0:27:09 Recollections of “Kristallnacht”0:27:12-0:28:31, 0:53:09-0:54:52 Returning to Vienna0:34:42-0:36:02 Memories of mother Augustina Werner Gottfried0:36:03-0:42:20 Cultural and religious life0:42:21-0:49:31 Emigration route0:54:57-0:57:41 Life in Antwerp and obtaining papers0:57:42-1:02:25 Moving to Montreal1:04:32-1:05:59 Anti-Semitism1:07:51-1:11:11 Life in Montreal1:11:12-1:15:41 Austria’s dealing with its NS-past1:15:42-1:23:38 World citizen identity1:23:39-1:35:35 Thoughts on Israel and Zionism1:39:08-1:42:21 Final messageIlse Matalon née Gottfried was born on July 29, 1932 in Vienna, Austria. She grew up with her parents, her older brother and a nanny in an apartment in Flachgasse in Vienna’s fifteenth district. Ilse went to school in Vienna until she left Austria with her family in early December 1938. They fled with a Jewish organization across Germany and Holland to Antwerp. The family stayed in Antwerp for about five months until Ilse’s father succeeded in getting a Romanian passport. They boarded a ship in La Havre, France that brought them to Montreal in the summer of 1939. Ilse attended primary and high school in Montreal. She went to McGill University from ’49 –’53, followed by a year at Simmons College and settled down in Montreal.Austrian Heritage Collectio