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AbstractFor the first half of the twentieth century, Canada was not a welcoming place for Jews. Xenophobia, nativism and anti-Semitism lay behind a wide range of quotas and restrictions that limited where Jews could live, be educated, work, or play. During the 1920s, 30s, and 40s, Nazi propaganda, a search for economic scapegoats, fear of communism, religious hatreds, and a general concern about recent rapid immigration all contributed to the problem. Then in the late 1940s, Canadian Jewish leaders launched an offensive against discriminatory practices. Through a publicity campaign and other efforts, they gradually won allies in church and service groups, the Association of Civil Liberties, and the new Ontario premier, Leslie Frost. By the 1960s, mechanisms to protect minorities were in place and Canada had begun the process of repealing its racist immigration laws. Efforts of Jewish leaders in the human rights movement of the 1940s and 50s played a central role in improving the treatment of minorities in late twentieth-century Canada.
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AbstractThe period prior to the 1970s has frequently been portrayed internationally as one of public disavowal of the Jewish catastrophe politically and cinematically and as one in which there was a dearth of filmic representations of the Holocaust. In addition to the Hollywood productions The Diary of Anne Frank (1960), Stanley Kramer's Judgment at Nuremberg (1961) and Sidney Lumet's The Pawnbroker (1965), one often spoke of just a few East and West European films emerging within a political and cultural landscape that was viewed by many as unable or unwilling to address the subject. This article takes issue with these assumptions by focusing on feature films made by DEFA between 1946 and 1963 in East Berlin's Soviet Zone and in East Germany which had as their subject matter the persecution of Jews during the Third Reich.