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  • 1973: Canada’s Response to the Chilean Refugees
    … by Jan Raska, PhD, Historian (Updated July 6, 2020) At that time…[there were]…no buses running, it was like a strike, all the transportation. So I remember…we were scared…we didn’t know what was going on, that it’s going to …
  • Dennis Teitsma
    … Families Dutch Coalminer becomes National Parole Officer In 1946, at age 14, I was eager to … in an industrial area in the south of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, we had come through the war with little or no harm. My parents had done …
  • Guenther Ivens
    … best buddy, Adolf Timm, after finishing our carpentry apprenticeships. We left Kiel by train to Bremerhaven Camp Lesum before boarding the … we saw the Kiel Harbour - was this to be the end of our journey? No, we by-passed Kiel and continued on to Copenhagen, were more passengers …
  • Sarah Sharpe Platana
    … reflections on November 11, 1997, Remembrance Day, a day which has always been of particular significance to me, and never more so than this … WRAF he had met. Then I thought I might begin by the entry in his well-worn small pocket diary with the entry on December 12, 1943 "Met … months for the letter which was delivered by a Regina policeman - the telegram delivery boys had long since refused to carry that type of …
  • Flying Officer Daniel D. Platana
    … reflections on November 11, 1997, Remembrance Day, a day which has always been of particular significance to me, and never more so than this … WRAF he had met. Then I thought I might begin by the entry in his well-worn small pocket diary with the entry on December 12, 1943 "Met … months for the letter which was delivered by a Regina policeman - the telegram delivery boys had long since refused to carry that type of …
  • LACW Sarah Sharpe Platana
    … reflections on November 11, 1997, Remembrance Day, a day which has always been of particular significance to me, and never more so than this … WRAF he had met. Then I thought I might begin by the entry in his well-worn small pocket diary with the entry on December 12, 1943 "Met … months for the letter which was delivered by a Regina policeman - the telegram delivery boys had long since refused to carry that type of …
  • Antonia Galletta Bova
    … Antonia Galletta Bova …
  • Bruno and Maria Bava
    … Bruno and Maria Bava …
  • Dad's Story (English)
    … Stories in Dutch On 15 April 1953, after two hours of sleep, we were called up to begin the voyage. Right on schedule, the Roetje … the moving your papers from one table to another. Looking out for the boys and hearing them say ‘look at that, like to get one of those’. …
  • “The existing Immigration regulations will not offer any solution”: MS St. Louis in Canadian Context
    by Steve Schwinghamer, Historian (Updated December 21, 2023) Anti-Semitic Exclusion and Canada’s Immigration Policies From the inception of Canada’s federal immigration structure at Confederation until the massive resettlement programs following the Second World War, Canadian immigration policy and …

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