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Numbers of Refugees That Canada (Didn’t) Accept

“During the twelve years of Nazi terror, from 1933 to 1945, while the United States accepted more than 200,000 Jewish refuges; Palestine, 125,000; embattled Britain, 70,000; Argentina, 50,000; penurious Brazil, 27,000; distant China, 25,000; tiny Bolivia and Chile, 14,000 each, Canada found room for fewer than 5,000.”

Excerpted fromNONE IS TOO MANY, Irving Abella and Harold Troper, Toronto, 1982ISBD 0-919630-31-6. (Canada & The Jews of Europe, 1933-1948)

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