An excellent book is None is to many. Canada roles prior to abd after WW2 and how the Jews were treated.
SS Soldiers, with the tatoo clearly removed found it easier to enter Canada than a Jew could.
http://www.edu.gov.mb.ca/k12/cur/socstu ... 6-2-4f.pdf"None is too many" was the response given by a high-level Canadian government official when asked how many Jews should be accepted into
the country, during the time of the Nazi persecution of the Jews.
This phrase described the immigration policies of the Canadian government, which closed its doors to Jewish refugees* who were fleeing the Holocaust. During the Second World War,Canadian policies were anti-Semitic and Jewish refugees were treated differently than other European refugees.
Only 5000 Jewish refugees were allowed to enter Canada during the 12-year
period of the German Nazi regime. Most other Allied countries admitted
tens of thousands of Jewish immigrants in an attempt to save them from the
Holocaust. It was not until after the war that Canadian immigration policies
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