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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 ...
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... from the Canadian Jewish Congress asking families to take in war orphans, 1948. (Alex Dworkin Canadian Jewish Archives) ...
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... April 29, 1947 War Orphans Project ...
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... Zuckier talks about his welcome to Calgary through the War Orphans Project. The family that Elliott stayed with owned a factory, and ...
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... Leon Hirsch talks about his arrival in Regina as a war orphan and the help he received from the Canadian Jewish Congress. He lived ... and his friend Joe Adler arrived in Regina through the War Orphans Project in December 1948. [00:07-00:15] Cut to ...
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... describes how he learned about the Canadian government's War Orphans program while he was living in the Grugliasco displaced persons camp ...
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... the challenges that Holocaust survivors faced after the war. Many turned to displaced persons camps and waited for opportunities to ... 1,200 refugee youth arrived in the country through the War Orphans Project. Source: Montreal Holocaust Museum, 2016 ...
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... 1948, the community of 5,500 people welcomed a group of 47 orphans through the War Orphans Project, followed by 50 tailors, and about 200 Jews who had escaped ...
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By the end of the Second World War, Winnipeg's Jewish community was well-established in the city's North End, ... Winnipeg, including 131 teenagers arriving through the War Orphans Project. The Jewish Immigrant Aid Society (JIAS) mobilized efforts across the ...
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... job in Halifax so soon after arriving in Canada through the War Orphans Project. Source: Alex Dworkin Canadian Jewish Archives, 1981 ...
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