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Field name | Value |
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Title | Oral History with Hanns Skoutajan |
Date | 22 Oct 2003 |
Document Type | Oral History (Audio) |
Name | Skoutajan, Hanns |
Interviewer | Schwinghamer, Steven |
Date of Recording | 22 Oct 2003 |
Duration | 00:05:22 |
Reference | 03.10.22HS |
Library / Archive | Canadian Museum of Immigration at Pier 21 |
Description | Hanns Skoutajan arrived from Czechoslovakia via Britain in 1939. He relates his experiences of migrating to Canada after his father became an anti-fascist activist during the 1930s and 1940s. Hanns explains how his family slipped out of Austria after the German invasion of the Sudetenland and came to England before boarding a Cunard liner for Canada. |
Theme(s) | Displaced Persons and Refugees; Departures: Port Conditions and Organisation |
Country (from) | Austria; Czech Republic; Great Britain |
Country (to) | Canada |
Places | Prague, Czech Republic; Scotland; Ontario, Canada |
Ports | Halifax, Nova Scotia, Montreal, Quebec, Canada |
Nationality | Austrian; German; Czech |
Ships | SS Samaria |
Keywords | politics, fascism, Nazis, refugee, Cunard Line, railway, farming, border, passport |
Language | English |
Copyright | Canadian Museum of Immigration at Pier 21 |