Who said none is too many

An elder in the Baptist church, he was in charge of upholding immigration restrictions as director of the Immigration Branch in the Department of Mines and Resources. His correspondence in federal archives are rife with anti-Semitic remarks. Upon his retirement in , Blair was given a prestigious award for meritorious public service.

Louis in The refugees' plea for safe haven was refused by Canada, Cuba and other Western Hemisphere nations. The ship was forced to return to Europe where almost half the Jews later died in camps or from other war-related causes. Louis survivors. Louis was Doug Blair. The Baptist minister is the great-nephew of Charles Frederick Blair, the bureaucrat who orchestrated Canada's limit on Jewish immigration and who personally advised the government to ignore the pleas of the Jews aboard the St.

Will you forgive me? Two men who suffered at the hands of the sadistic Nazi doctor are reunited in Vancouver. Feelings of terror haunt elderly Holocaust survivors, including some who think they're still in a camp. Survivor Helena Jockel's memories of a "liquidated" Jewish ghetto, doomed schoolchildren and Dr. Josef Mengele. Except when the St. Louis reached Havana two weeks later, the Cuban government refused to accept their landing certificates and transit visas.

More than seven days later, no South or Central American country would provide the Jewish refugees with a safe haven. And the U.

From to , the U. Other Canadians — including historian George Wrong, B. Sandwell, the editor of Saturday Night magazine and Robert Falconer, the former president of the University of Toronto — disagreed. Yet the prime minister remained firm in his resolve to keep the Jews out. King was influenced as well by Frederick Blair, a longtime civil servant, who in became the director of the Immigration Branch. Blair was one of the most vocal opponents of Jewish immigration to Canada. In what was to be one of the definitive statements of this whole sorry ordeal, Blair told Oscar Skelton, the undersecretary of state for external affairs, that the Jews on the St.

By the time Blair had written those sharp words, the St. Manage Print Subscription. Main Menu Search nationalpost. This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below.

The St. Louis was within two days of Halifax Harbour when Ottawa, under pressure from high-ranking politicians within, refused to grant the Jewish families a home. Messinger, now 78 and a retired physician in Buffalo, N. We apologize, but this video has failed to load.

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