Browsing History by Subject "Refugees"
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Confronting Hitler's Legacy: Canadian Jews and Early Holocaust Discourse, 1933-1956
(University of Waterloo, 2014-12-19)This dissertation examines Canadian Jewish thought from the Nazi period through to the immediate postwar era regarding the Nazis’ persecution and murder of European Jewry. It challenges the widely accepted position that ... -
Freedom's Voices: Czech and Slovak Immigration to Canada during the Cold War
(University of Waterloo, 2013-09-04)During the Cold War, approximately 36,000 persons claimed Czechoslovakia as their country of citizenship upon entering Canada. A defining characteristic of this postwar migration of predominantly ethnic Czechs and Slovaks ...