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Hitler persecuted them: Canada jailed them

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Collection
Montreal Holocaust Museum
Description Level
Item
Material Type
textual record
Physical Description
Magazine : Paper : Printed ; Ht: 30,3 cm x W: 26,6 cm
Date
October 18, 1980
Collection
Montreal Holocaust Museum
Description Level
Item
Material Type
textual record
Physical Description
Magazine : Paper : Printed ; Ht: 30,3 cm x W: 26,6 cm
Other Title Information
Documentary Artifact
Date
October 18, 1980
Creator
Koch, Eric
Physical Condition
Good
Language
English
Notes
31 page magazine made of newspaper paper, stapled twice on spine. Contains an article on Canadian Internment Camps written by a former internee. The article is on pages 6, 7, 10, and 11. The article is in black and white only but the magazine is in colour. Narrative: This document was donated by Eudice Bauer, the wife of Gustave Bauer, who was also an internee at a Canadian internment camp. Gustave was born in 1924 in Hamburg, Germany, and was on vacation in Denmark with his mother Anna and brother Werner when the Nuremberg Laws of 1935 were passed. They decided not to return to Germany, and went to stay with Anne's sister in Brussels, Belgium. Gustave's father Manfred was arrested for smuggling money out of Germany and spent the next two years in prison. Manfred joined his family in Brussels when he was released from prison in 1937. In 1940, immediately before Germany occupied Belgium, all German males born before 1924 were ordered to register. Manfred and Werner were sent to France, where they were interned. On their way to France to join them, Gustave and his mother were arrested and sent to England on the last boat to leave Belgium before it was occupied. In England, Gustave spent time in Folkestone, Pentonville Prison, Kempton Park, and Douglas, Isle of Man. He was in England from May 19 to July 4, 1940. IOn July 4, 1940 he was sent to Canada on the S.S. Sobiesky with other German nationals as prisoners of war.He was in Camp T, in Trois-Rivières, Quebec, from July 15 to August 12, 1940. He was thenmoved to Camp B, in New Brunswick, and then in 1941 was sent with other Jewish internees to Camp I, Île aux Noix, Quebec. He was sponsored for release in 1942, and his mother joined him in Canada in 1947. His father was deported from Drancy to Majdanek in 1943. It is unknown what happened to Gustave's brother Werner once he was sent to France. Neither man survived the war.
Accession No.
2011X.49.09
Name Access
Bauer, Eudice
Places
Montreal, Canada, North America
Archival / Genealogical
Archival Descriptions
Repository
Montreal Holocaust Museum
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