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Felicia Carmelly

Name: La Fondation Azrieli
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Born: Vatra Dornei, Romania, 1931

Wartime experience: Transnistria

Writing Partner: Linda Rosenbaum

Felicia Carmelly participated in Sustaining Memories in 2013. After her writing partner, Linda Rosenbaum, helped produce her memoir, Felicia spent the next year expanding and rewriting it, eventually submitting her revised memoir to the foundation’s publishing program. Felicia’s memoir, Across the Rivers of Memory, was published by the Azrieli Foundation in 2015.

Felicia Carmelly was born in Vatra Dornei, Romania, on September 25, 1931. In 1959, Felicia and her family emigrated from Communist Romania to Israel. Three years later they immigrated to Canada, where Felicia earned her master’s degree in social work. Felicia founded Toronto’s Transnistria Survivors’ Association in 1994 and published the anthology Shattered! 50 Years of Silence: History and Voices of the Tragedy in Romania and Transnistria in 1997. Felicia Carmelly passed away in 2018.

Felicia, âgée de 6 mois, avec sa grand-mère maternelle, Rebecca Siegler. Dorna, 1932.

Felicia avec sa mère et le cousin de sa mère sous une bannière où l’on peut lire : « Le chemin de la vie ». Dorna, vers 1937.

Felicia at around age six. Dorna, circa 1937.

Felicia (troisième à partir de la droite), avec des amis devant l’immeuble qu’elle s’est débrouillée pour faire transformer en école secondaire. Dorna, 1946.

Felicia Carmelly, 2015.

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