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Double Threat focuses on the 17,000 Canadian Jews who enlisted in the Canadian military during World War II, of whom 450 did not survive. [2]The soldiers faced a "double threat"– they were not only fighting against Fascism, but for the survival of the Jewish people.
About 17,000 Jewish Canadians served in the Canadian Armed Forces during World War II. [45] Major Ben Dunkelman of the Queen's Own Rifles regiment was a soldier in the campaigns of 1944–45 in northwest Europe, highly decorated for his courage and ability under fire.
On the eve of World War II, the Canadian government also restricted immigration. As a result, only small groups of Austrian and German Jews fleeing Hitler found a safe haven in Toronto during this period. In 1941, the Jewish population was 49,046, [16] comprising the largest ethnic minority in Toronto. [17]
[12] [13] [14] About 17,000 Canadian Jews served in the Canadian Armed Forces. [15] Jewish partisans also fought throughout occupied Europe and were organized into groups such as the Bielski partisans, United Partisan Organization and the Parczew partisans. Jewish resistance fighters took part in the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising.
None Is Too Many: Canada and the Jews of Europe 1933–1948 is a 1983 book co-authored by the Canadian historians Irving Abella and Harold Troper. It is about Canada's restrictive immigration policy towards Jewish refugees during the Holocaust years. It helped popularize the phrase "none is too many" in Canada. [1]
Representative of Blair's xenophobic and anti-Semitic "careful control" was Canada's refusal in June 1939 to allow the MS St. Louis, the so-called "Voyage of the Damned" to dock in Halifax with 907 Jewish emigrants aboard. [2] After Canada's rejection (following refusals from Cuba and the United States), the St. Louis was forced to return to ...
The history of Canada during World War II begins with the German invasion of Poland on 1 September 1939. While the Canadian Armed Forces were eventually active in nearly every theatre of war , most combat was centred in Italy , [ 1 ] Northwestern Europe, [ 2 ] and the North Atlantic.
This list of Canadian Jews includes notable Canadian Jews or Canadians of Jewish descent, ... Sydney Shulemson DFC (1915–2007), World War II fighter pilot [258]