36 Friday, kcember 23, 1983
THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
'None Is Too Many' Shows Canada Complicity in Nazi Holocaust
A sad story of neglect in
rescuing the victims of
Nazism, the failure of
Canadian authorities to
show compassion, was ex-
posed a year ago in
deeply-moving accounts of
indifference and heartless-
ness.
The account of the- failure
to adhere to humane de-
mands during the Hitler era
are now offered in an
American volume. It is
among the deeply moving
accounts of the guilt of that
era.
To the condemned Jews of
Auschwitz, Canada had a
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special meaning: it was the vast and democratic U.S.
name given to the camp took only 200,000, includ-
barracks where the food, ing the select of European
clothes and valuables taken intellectual, cultural and
from prisoners were stored. scientific life.
It represented life, luxury,
Her sister democracy
salvation; it was also un-
Canada — like the United
reachable.
States a "nation of im-
migrants"
— found room
In effect, these bar-
for
fewer
than 5,000
racks symbolized what
Canada was to all the Jews; after the war, until
Jews of Europe through- the founding of Israel in
out the 1930s and 1940s — 1948, she admitted but
8,000 more. "That re-
a paradise, enormous,
wealthy and full of life; cord," note the authors,
but out of bounds, totally "is arguably the worst of
inaccessible. Why all possible refugee-
receiving states."
Canada was closed to
Using a wealth of prev-
European Jews, joining
iously
unavailable source
in the massive indif-
ference to the suffering of material, Abella and Troper
trace the evolution and
Holocaust victims also
evident in the U.S. and execution of Canada's im-
migration policy from the
elsewhere, is the subject
Great Depression through
of "None Is Too Many:
Canada and the Jews of the aftermath of World War
II. They demonstrate that,
Europe 1933-1948," by
as in the U.S. during this
historians Irving Abella
and Harold Troper (Ran- period, immigration regula-
tions were restrictive, and
dom House).
those most directly respon-
The Canadian edition of sible for refugee policy were
the book, published in late
anti-Semites: "If they would
1982, won the National
divest themselves of certain
Jewish Book Award in the
of their habits I am sure
U.S. and was awarded the they would be just as popu-
Sir John A. Macdonald
lar in Canada as our Scan-
Prize in Canadian History
dinavians," wrote the direc-
given by the Canadian His- tor of the Immigration
torical Association.
Branch in 1938.
When compared with the
They also irrefutably
six million Jews who lost document the fact that
their lives during the 12 political considerations at
years of Nazi terror, from the highest levels prevented
1933 to 1945, the number the Canadian government
saved was pitifully small. from acting even after the
The United Kingdom ad- extent of the Nazi horror
mitted 70,000 Jews and was known: as did Franklin
allowed another 125,000 Roosevelt in the U.S.,
into British-administered Canada's prime minister
Palestine.
feared that an influx of Jews
Other states, with long would "undermine national
histories of immigration, unity."
did even less. Argentina
It is a story summed up
took 50,000, Brazil 27,000 best, they suggest, in the
and Australia 15,000. The words of an anonymous
WASHINGTON (JTA) —
Chief Rabbi Moses Rosen of
Romania met with Vice
President George Bush at
the White House last week
to give him a detailed brief-
ing on the condition of
Romania's, Jewish commu-
nity. Rosen, who was in-
vited by Bush for that pur-
pose, reportedly told the
Vice President that there
has been no change in the
Romanian government's
liberal policy toward its
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He said the Jewish com-
munity retains the right to
full cultural and religious
expression. Aliya to Israel
was continuing without any
new
impediments.
President
Nicolae
Ceausescu of Romania, had,
at their last meeting, vigor-
ously condemned anti-
Semitism which he equated
with the evils of fascism, the
Chief Rabbi said.
Bush, for his part, said
he was anxious to have
the Chief Rabbi continue
to report periodically on
conditions in Romania to
the Administration. He
asked Rosen to convey
his best wishes to
President Ceausescu.
Rosen, a member of the
governing board of the
World Jewish Congress and
president of the Federation
of Jewish Communities in
Romania, arrived in the
U.S. to confer with the
Ameiican Jewish leader-
ship and participate in the
annual convention of the
American Jewish Joint Dis-
tribution Committee. He
met privately with WJC
president Edgar Bronfman.
He also had lengthy dis-
cussions with top State De-
partment officials.
write in their preface.
"The Jews of Europe
were not so much trap-
ped in a whirlwind of sys-
tematic mass murder as
they were abandoned to
it . . . The destruction of
European Jewry is a
tragedy which extends
beyond the inhumanity
of concentration camps,
the gassing of children
and the annihilation of a
culture. Horrible as these
facts are, the Holocaust is
a tragedy which also
envelops and implicates
the bystander."
Both Abella and Troper
are professors of history in
Toronto, Abella at York
University, Troper at the
Ontario Institute for
Studies in Education.
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