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During the Holocaust , the Canadian Jewish Congress joined forces with other refugee advocacy groups and prominent non-Jews – including Canada's first female Senator Cairine Wilson – to create the Canadian National Committee on Refugees. The...
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To alleviate Canada's labour shortages, the government grants entry to skilled workers in displaced persons camps. The Canadian Jewish Congress and predominantly Jewish textile industry devise a plan known as the Tailor Project, claiming an...
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Order-in-Council 1647 grants permission for Jewish war orphans to enter Canada. Between 1947 and 1949, 1,123 Jewish orphans come to Canada as part of the War Orphans Project. As stipulated by the government, the Jewish community assumes full...
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During the war, the Canadian Jewish community was represented in refugee matters by the United Jewish Relief Agencies (UJRA), an arm of the Canadian Jewish Congress (CJC) based in Montreal. Saul Hayes was the Executive Director. Under the...
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