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FormatJournal Article
Author, AnalyticRiedel, Walter E.
Title, AnalyticExiled in Canada: Literary and Related Forms of Cultural Life in the Internment Camps
Journal TitleYearbook of German-American Studies
Date of Publication1989
Volume ID24
Location in Work73-88
AbstractThis study examines writings and drawings of Jewish refugees from Nazi Germany and Austria who had sought refuge or asylum in Great Britain before WWII, but were interned as enemy aliens after the outbreak of hostilities. Nearly 3,000 of them were later transferred to Canadian camps in New Brunswick, Quebec and Ontario. Literature, or, more generally, intellectual activity of a cultural nature, may be seen as having a specific function for the exiles or internees. This study shows the functional value of this artistic expression in the internees' coming to terms with their internment.
Call NumberMKI Periodicals
MKI TermsWorld War, 1939-1945/ Canada/ Prisoners of war/ Jews/ Culture