Title Blatant injustice : the story of a Jewish refugee from Nazi Germany imprisoned in Britain and Canada during World War II / Walter W. Igersheimer ; edited and with a foreword by Ian Darragh

Published Montréal [Que.] : McGill-Queen's University Press, 2005

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Description 1 online resource (xxix, 231 pages) : illustrations Series Footprints Footprints (Cheltenham, England) Contents The Approaching Thunder of War -- False Hope in London -- The Prison Ship -- Hostile Reception in Quebec -- The Hunger Complex -- Music behind Barbed Wire -- Camp University -- First Contact -- Break-up of Camp L -- The "Promised Land" -- Rebellion -- Despair -- The British Home Office Representative -- Land of Ice and Snow -- Paterson Pleads Our Cause -- Paterson's Failed Mission -- Cuba Fever -- Release from Canada -- Schemes and Spies in Havana -- New Start in the USA Summary "Grossly unsanitary living conditions, cruel and abusive treatment of camp officials, the withholding of medical treatment - these were the common experiences for refugees imprisoned at internment camps in Britain and Canada. Walter Igersheimer's memoir is a harrowng account of the pervasiveness of anti-Semitism during the war years, exposing a shameful period in the British and Canadian war record." "After escaping from Nazi Germany with his family, Igersheimer was completing his medical studies when he was caught in the panic that led to the internment of 30,000 German and Italian citizens living in Britain. Imprisoned behind barbed wire and treated as enemies, many of the Jewish refugees, including Igersheimer, were then sent to prison camps in Canada. Unable to get the Canadian government to release them, the internees refused to let the authorities crush their creativity or desire for an education: they started a free university, mounted plays, and wrote musicals."--Jacket Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 223-224) and index Notes English Print version record Subject Igersheimer, Walter W SUBJECT Igersheimer, Walter W. fast Igersheimer, Walter W. swd Subject Jewish refugees -- Canada -- Biography World War, 1939-1945 -- Refugees -- Biography BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Historical. HISTORY -- Military -- World War II. HISTORY -- Holocaust. Jewish refugees Refugees Flüchtling Gefangenschaft Canada Großbritannien Kanada Juden. Genre/Form Electronic books autobiographies (literary works) Autobiographies Biographies Autobiographies. Biographies. Autobiographies. Biographies. Form Electronic book Author Darragh, Ian ISBN 9780773572508 0773572503 1282863177 9781282863170 9786612863172 661286317X

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