1. Canada, Jewish Refugees and the Holocaust
The Holocaust is a disturbing and a shameful chapter in Canadian history. ... Louis, and this denial is one of the reasons why many of them had died in the Holocaust. ... We were Jews, we were expendable It was terrible ..., terrible, terrible of Canada and the United States, of all countries, to not let us in" (National Post News, 2011). ... Prime Minister Mackenzie King wrote in his diary on March 29, 1938, "I fear we would have riots if we agreed to a policy that admitted numbers of Jews," and Frederick Charles Blair, director of the immigration Branch of the Department of m...
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- Grade Level: Undergraduate