The little known saga of Jewish internees in Canada

In a little known Canadian footnote to the Holocaust, 2,300 Jewish refugees were sent to internment camps in Canada, including six in Quebec - sometimes alongside the very perpetrators of the crimes against them.
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[@slobbernuckle]

It's Amazing how many of these kids when on to be so successful and integrated into Canadian society after the war.

[@seanwebb605]

When on?

[@valeriecrosby698]

My father was arrested on his 16th birthday at his school and taken to an internment camp. He has pictures of it. He had come over on the Kindertransport from Germany. He is turning 100 this month!

[@yvonnemargo56]

My Father, JULIUS FRANKEL, jEWISH, born in Vienna was interned at the camp ILE AUX NOIX for 3 years. Came on the boat Sobieski from Kitchner camp, England. i never saw a letter of apology from the Canadian government. it is too bad that this part of history

[@rosesprog1722]

It was probably rather uncomfortable I can understand that but if he had stayed in Vienna he probably would not have survived, what do you want us to apologize about?

[@elisa7881]

@@rosesprog1722 Because they should not have been detained! They left Europe as victims and came to Canada to be victimised again. They were interned with Nazis!!! How ignorant were the politicians, clergymen and general population for the most part Christians and anti-Semites.. "None is too many"; a very shameful page in Canadian History.

[@speroskoufis7505]

What else do you have like this? Like a full interview?

[@jakesrllygr8716]

I have to do this for school lmao

[@chefruggy8022]

What do you find so humorous about doing this as an assignment?

[@ranjhanijjar6107]

Karen lol⬆️

[@risen16]

Same💀💀💀

[@tysonstates9227]

i have to do this for school

[@risen16]

Same💀

[@jamiecarr4715]

Explain, in your own words, the evidence that you have gathered from this source.

[@marycahill546]

They were sent here as enemy aliens, not as refugees. It was right to take all necessary precautions in war time. At least they avoided the Blitz in Britain, and could make a life here after the war.

[@xapemanx]

I thought we just shipped them all back to Germany

[@fo1711]

Not all of them... they only sent back about 900 of them...

[@5thhorseman982]

He escaped. Full head of hair and stilll in good shape at 97. Think about that. Let that sink in. Liar.

[@viciouslady1340]

Thats what they do

[@rosesprog1722]

Well, to come here may have saved their lives, they asked for better conditions they got them, they were allowed to work and make a little money, go to school and learn a new craft, after the war they were allowed to stay and integrate Canadian society and after all this they are still complaining?

[@chefruggy8022]

You really don't see where the problem was, do you? It was the fact that they were put in with REAL Nazi POW's and Nazi sympathizers. Which should not have happened. The Jewish were the ones being targeted by the Nazi's... The brain dead Government literally stuck the true refugees, with their enemies. That is where their complaint was. After, and only after they protested, did they get better treatment that allowed them the positives you listed. They aren't still complaining. They're just asking for history to be made clear, about how the Canadian Government treated them during that time. Our Canadian history text books never taught us this dark part. This was all new information to me, and I'm in my 40's... I also was a straight A student when it came to history.

[@rosesprog1722]

@@chefruggy8022 What the woman says is that they complained about the living conditions, not the nazis, I find it hard to believe that the British couldn't figure that shipping nazis mixed in with Jews might not be a good idea and anyway, if the nazis or anyone else had done anything wrong, the guards would have taken care of it in no time. Clearly there were no proper facilities for them at the beginning, as they say Canada wasn't ready for them but it the problem was fixed and then they were given opportunities that very few Europeans got, a little gratitude would be in order here I believe.

[@denloverin364]

one was too many