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At the beginning of the 20 th century, Ottawa's Jewish community had about 400 people, nearly half of which lived in the ByWard ... a desperate search for refuge by European Jews. In 1931, the Canadian government introduced a regulation under the Immigration Act, known as ...
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... to 60,000 Jews, making up nearly half of Canada's entire Jewish population. The community was mostly Yiddish -speaking, religious, ... Catholic school system. Headquartered in Montreal, the Canadian Jewish Congress was founded in 1919. Representing the Jewish ...
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Toronto's Jewish community was the city's largest non-English speaking ethnic group in ... arrived as part of Canada's tailor and furrier programs. The Canadian Jewish Congress purchased several houses on Beverley Street at Dundas to provide ...
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... in the first five years after the war. By 1960, Canada's Jewish population was made up of about 15% survivors. Their concerns, needs, ... Zablow became the first Holocaust survivor to sit on the Canadian Jewish Congress' Montreal board of executives. The Association ...
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... Brochure from the Canadian Jewish Congress asking families to take in war orphans, 1948. (Alex Dworkin ...
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... to as the Great Depression, leads to major changes in Canadian immigration policy. The number of accepted immigrants is reduced by ...
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... became the capital of Saskatchewan in 1906, it had a small Jewish community with a strong Yiddish cultural base. In 1948, the city's ... of over 900 Jews welcomed 14 young survivors through the Canadian Jewish Congress' War Orphans Project. Two survivors, Miriam Levinger ...
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... Gisela, and their son Irwin Leo (second from right) at the Canadian Jewish Congress Tribute Dinner. September, 1972. (USC Shoah Foundation) ...
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... video, Michael Kutz describes how he learned about the Canadian government's War Orphans program while he was living in the Grugliasco ... that the ship was supposed to leave Italy, they diverted the Jewish Aliyah, the Bricha that shipped to a French port, the Port-de-Bouc, from ...
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... Canada through the War Orphans Project. Source: Alex Dworkin Canadian Jewish Archives, 1981 Transcript: [00:00-00:06] ...
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