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Alice Lehrer on her Dutch Roots

Listen to Alice Lehrer recount her mother's story, from her childhood in Holland and last-minute escape to Canada in 1939, to the challenges of her readjustment to life in Montreal and her success in finding a Dutch community in her new home. This oral history was conducted as part of Yuula Benivolski's project, The Ocean Between Us.

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Alice Lehrer's mother, siblings, and cousins in the Black Forest, Germany, in the summer of 1935
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Alice Lehrer's mother on the SS Australia from Europe, just getting out of Holland in June, 1939
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Alice Lehrer's mother, siblings, and cousins in the Black Forest, Germany, in the summer of 1935

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Alice Lehrer's mother on the SS Australia from Europe, just getting out of Holland in June, 1939

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