Jewish Canadians | The Canadian Encyclopedia
WEBDec 3, 2012 · Canada is now home to the fourth largest Jewish community in the world. The largest Jewish populations in the country can be found in the provinces of Ontario and Quebec. According to the 2016 census, 143,665 individuals living in Canada reported Jewish as an ethnic origin (39,715 single and 103,950 multiple responses).
Canada and the Holocaust | The Canadian Encyclopedia
WEBMay 6, 2016 · In December 1944, Toronto-born Jewish chaplain Samuel Cass and his soldiers threw a bittersweet Chanukah party for the few Jewish orphans remaining in Antwerp, Belgium. For Canadian military personnel, the starkest encounter with the Holocaust and its survivors took place at the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp.
Home Children, 1869-1932 - Library and Archives Canada
WEBThis series also includes inspection cards for some European children, including those brought to Canada by the Armenian Relief Association of Canada (1923-1932) and the Canadian Jewish War Orphans Committee (1920-1921).
1,116 Jewish War Orphans Brought to Canada by Jewish Congress
WEBMar 20, 2015 · Of 1,116 Jewish war orphans brought to Canada in 1947 and 1948 by the Canadian Jewish Congress, less than 20 are still dependent on the community, according to a Jewish Congress report...
History of Canada and the Holocaust - Canada.ca
WEBJul 21, 2022 · Additionally, many Canadians lost relatives, loved ones and friends in Nazi death camps. As a result of Canada's wartime policies, nearly 2,300 men were interned as "enemy aliens" in camps across the country between 1940 and 1943. These were mostly Jewish refugees from Austria and Germany.
History of the Jews in Canada - Wikipedia
WEBThe Canadian Jewish Farm School in Georgetown, Ontario was established in 1927 and served as a training school for Polish war orphans brought to Canada after the First World War
Jewish Canadians - library-archives.canada.ca
WEBThere are cards for some children brought to Canada by the Canadian Jewish War Orphans Committee in 1920 and 1921. These records are: Juvenile Inspection Reports (RG76-C4c) These cards are on digitized microfilm reels on our partner website Héritage: T-15420 A to Cardno, Leslie; T-15421 Cardwell, Andrew to Evans, Arthur E. ...
Canadian Jewish Congress - Wikipedia
WEBThe CJC was active before and during World War II in lobbying the government (with limited success) to open the borders to Jewish refugees fleeing Europe. After the war, over 1,100 child Holocaust survivors immigrated to Canada in the War Orphans Project, a refugee resettlement program administered by the CJC.
Decades after war, Jewish orphans gather in Montreal
WEBOct 26, 2008 · MONTREAL - It's been 60 years since the Canadian Jewish Congress helped bring Jewish war orphans to Canada. In Montreal, about 20 of the orphans -- now in their 80s -- reunited Sunday...
WEBto actually save those children: before the children could leave for Canada, the Nazis took control of Vichy France, and the orphans were deported to their deaths. Later on in the war, the Canadian authorities allowed into Canada several hundred Jewish refugees who had made their way to Spain and Switzerland.
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