"Camp Meeting" Sketch

A set of bunkbeds. In the aisle between them, a table and benches are set up. Some men sleep on the beds; others sit at the table in discussion. The handwritten caption reads, “Truth of the week 2. Group meeting. ‘So we heard in the Group Leader meeting…’”

Sketch of internees in a barrack sitting on beds and benches, holding papers and talking during a meeting.

This is one of several sketches made by Gerry Waldston during his time in a Canadian internment camp. Gerry was a German Jew who had left Germany because of Nazi persecution in June 1939. He found refuge in Great Britain. After Britain declared war on Germany, the British government classified Gerry as an “enemy alien.” In 1940, he was deported with hundreds of other Jewish refugees to Canada. They were interned in camps in Ontario, New Brunswick and Quebec.

Donated to the Vancouver Holocaust Education Centre by Gerry Waldston. 2012.009.011

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Truth of the Week
2.
Groupmeeting.

..... “So we heard in the Group leader meetings....” [signature]

"Camp Meeting" Sketch

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