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Field name | Value |
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Title | Oral History with H. Peter Oberlander |
Date | 23 May 2008 |
Document Type | Oral History (Audio) |
Name | Oberlander, H Peter |
Interviewer | Schwinghamer, Steven |
Date of Recording | 23 May 2008 |
Duration | 00:09:35 |
Reference | 08.05.23PO |
Library / Archive | Canadian Museum of Immigration at Pier 21 |
Description | Austrian Jewish migrant H. Peter Oberlander arrived from Austria via the United Kingdom in 1940. He relates his ordeal of forced migration from Great Britain to Canada and the journey conditions alongside German prisoners of war. He explains how they were arrested without warning, taken to Glasgow and shipped across to Canada under miserable conditions. |
Theme(s) | Displaced Persons and Refugees; Journey Conditions |
Country (from) | Austria; Great Britain |
Country (to) | Canada |
Places | Canterbury, England |
Ports | Glasgow, Scotland |
Nationality | Austrian; German |
Ships | Soberski |
Keywords | fifth columnist, forced migration, child migration, prisoner, discrimination, anti-semitism, Second World War, food, soldier, education, espionage |
Language | English |
Copyright | Canadian Museum of Immigration at Pier 21 |