Life Stories of Montrealers Displaced by War, Genocide, and other Human Rights Violations is an oral history project exploring Montrealers’ experiences and memories of mass violence and displacement. A team of both university and community-based researchers is in the process of recording life story interviews with more than 500 Montreal residents over the next five years.



Liselotte Ivry, a witness to the Holocaust, frequently speaks of her experience in front of school groups. Many children and teenagers have been writing her about their impressions of her stories. She published some of these responses in her book, I Am Their Voice. Liselotte participated in three Marches of the Living, in the years 1999, 2001, and 2004. One student, while visiting Majdanek, wrote a poem, which she gave to Liselotte. See more on CitizenShift

Life Stories is housed by Concordia’s Centre for Oral History and Digital Storytelling.