Refugees, Humanitarian Internationalism, and the Jewish Labour Committee of Canada 1945–1952
Journal: Canadian Jewish Studies / Études juives canadiennes
Year: 2021

This article examines the humanitarian internationalism of the Jewish Labour Committee of Canada (JLC) between 1938 and 1952. Throughout WWII, the JLC sent aid to European resistance movements, and in its aftermath participated in the “garment workers’ schemes,” a series of immigration projects that resettled thousands of displaced persons in Canada. Undertaken independently by the Jewish-Canadian community, with the assistance of trade unions, the projects worked to overcome tight border restri