What Did Canadians Know During the Holocaust?

John R.

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This factsheet explores how the holocaust was reported on and received by Canadians during World War Two. The factsheet details anti-semitic public beliefs and policies in Canada during and after the war.

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  • Abella, Irving, and Harold Troper. “‘The Line Must Be Drawn Somewhere’: Canada and Jewish Refugees, 1933–9.”Canadian Historical Review 60, no. 2 (June 1, 1979): 178–209.https://doi.org/10.3138/CHR-060-02-04.

  • Frisse, Ulrich. "The 'Bystanders Perspective' The Toronto Daily Star and It's Coverage of the Persecution of Jews and the Holocaust in Canada, 1933-1945." Yad Vashem Studies 39, no. 1 (2010): 213-244.

  • Sheftle, Anna, and Zembrzycki, Stacey. "'We Started Over Again, We Were Young': Postwar Social Worlds of Childhood Holocaust Survivors in Montreal." In The Age of Light, Soap and Water: Moral Reform in English Canada 1885-1925, (2008): 104-128. Toronto: University of Toronto Press.

  • Valverde, Mariana. "Racial Purity, Sexual Purity, and Immigration Policy." The Age of Light, Soap and Water: Moral Reform in English Canada, 1885-1925. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2008: 104-128. https://coursematerials.library.uvic.ca/ares/ares.dll?Action=10&Type=10&Value=182904

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