Canada During The Holocaust

Reflection The holocaust has proven to be a very devastating period in history, whether that is because of the 11 million Jewish, Jehovah’s, Homosexuals, gypsies and disabled people that lost their lives or the fact that a man as evil as Hitler had actually planned on killing millions of people, and then building a museum on an “extinct race” after he was sure he had assassinated all of the so called “inferiors.” Even the name Holocaust is obtained from the Greek words “completely burnt.” This topic may seem as if it does not relate to Canada in any sense, but the reality is that it does! We as Canadians could have played a role in saving the lives of millions of people but instead we became one of the reason that some of these people were killed in the first place. Yes, it is true that Hitler gave the U.S, Britain, Canada and many other nations the chance to take in Jewish refugees and essentially save their lives, but we did the exact opposite when we refused!
St. Louis are an example of this, as they were denied entry into Canada, and were therefore forced to stay in Europe and face their deaths. After the war, over 40,000 survivors of the Holocaust moved to Canada and settled here, but only a few Jewish refugees actually found sanctuary in Canada at the time. As far as today, there are many things that we as human beings have learned from our past, the most important of them all being