Description
Robert Horowitz
Mr. Horowitz was born in Cornwall, Ontario, on August 30, 1919, of Jewish parents who immigrated to Canada from Russia. He grew up in Montreal where he studied at Lord Arthur School and then moved on to Montreal High. He enlisted with the Régiment de Trois-Rivières in the latter part of 1939 when he was 20 years old and still in high school. Mr. Horowitz attended Camp Borden during the winter of 1939-40 for approximately 1.75 years. He first set foot on European soil in Scotland and trained in Salisbury. He saw action for the first time in Sicily and the southern part of the Italian peninsula before being wounded in Tremali. Following the war, he spent some time with Veterans Affairs assisting Canadian Veterans in England and later retired in Canada.
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Interviewer: When you left England, you would have left behind your wife.
My wife yeah. And a daughter.
Interviewer: How difficult was that?
I don't know, it was difficult of course leaving my daughter there, and my wife, but I was pleased to get back. When I got here, I arranged to have, because I've had contacts in Ottawa, and I arranged for her to get on the..one of the boats. I don't remember the name of the boat. And she went on there. There was her and she had a cabin...two people in her cabin, and they treated her as royalty. Very, very good. It took me about 34 months, possibly longer to get myself back in the...in the workforce, let's put it that way there.
Interviewer: So your convalescence was a lengthy one?
Well about three months. I was given a discharge at that time, after two months, three months, and when I walked out, I walked away from it, everything went blank.