Hello all,
I'm reading here about Mike's grandfather being interned in England. Interestingly, my father and mother were two of the 700 Jews allowed into Canada in the run-up to and during the War. They had entrepreneur's visas, meaning they had money and would be creating jobs - remember, it was still the Depression when they applied and received them. They arrived at Ellis Island on August 22 on a US transit Visa (they had sailed on the Staatendam, which was scuttled or torpedoed - no one seems to actually know - as it entered Rotterdam habour), and were detained until they left for Canada on August 27. They arrived in Canada at the Lacolle (New York-Quebec) border crossing the same day. I have my father's letter to his parents from September 4, "Well, they declared war here yesterday". He wrote of talking to a policeman and being told they probably would only have to register. They were not interned, and received their Canadian citizenships in 1944.
It is pretty vague for me. I don't know if Romanians were enemy aliens at the very start. It seemed like it. My father's father, inciderntally, also fought in WWI - in the trenches. He was diabetic before insulin, but he made it, and died of a broken hip in 1951.
Bob
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My grandfather (Simon Fuhr) also fought in World War one on the Austro-German side. Ironically when he fled Vienna to escape Hitler in 1939 and landed in England, his war record led to his prompt internment in Ramsay on the Isle of Man. Though he did not like being taken there against his will, he said that the camaraderie of the other internees was a comfort and there was a thriving little Viennese Jewish society in microcosm.
Apparently he was offered a field commission - unusual for a Jewish soldier - but rejected it because, as a junior officer, he would be expected to be the first one over the top. I guess that is one of the reasons that I am here today!
Best wishes
Mike
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Hi Cornel,
A question - my grandfather served in the Austrian Army in WWI. How can I find out in which regiment and/or where he fought? I recollect vaguely that he once told me that he fought on the Italian front.
I know it was stupidity or antagonism to what I would see there in 1994-6 (I mean WWII exhibits), but I missed visiting and searching in the Viennese Military Museum, just adjacent to the Schweitzer Park, where I lived in the course of my Sabbatical years at the UN center. But I suppose that today there are ways to search via the internet.
Thanks in advance
Mordecai
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