Postcard to "Ingenieur" Alexander Distler in Jewish Refugee Camp 41 Ile-aux-Noix, Quebec from Carl Radlmesser in Toronto

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Object ID

2019.2.317

Object Name

Postcard

Date

2-15-1943

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Description

Postcard with color image of city street, labelled “FRONT STREET, POST OFFICE, UNION DEPOT AND ROYAL HOTEL, TORONTO, CAN.” Back has two green postage stamps in upper right corner.

Information Provided by Michael D. Bulmash:

Due to Great Britain’s concern about the infiltration of “enemy aliens” among Jewish refugees, Alexander Distler had been sent to internment camps in Canada. At some point after 1940 the name of Camp I was changed to Camp 41, on Ile-aux-Noix, an island in Quebec. Distler may have known Radlmesser from Austria, but most certainly knew him from his time at Camp Kitchener in Richborough, Kent, as both names appear on a list of “residents.” Radlmesser reports that he is doing well, working on a farm near Toronto, and hopes to hear from Distler.

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Dimensions

3 1/2 x 5 1/2"

Keywords

Alexander Distler, Internment Camp I, Camp 41, Ile-aux-Noix, Carl Radlmesser

Subcollection

Distler, Internment, Personal

Recommended Citation

"Postcard to "Ingenieur" Alexander Distler in Jewish Refugee Camp 41 Ile-aux-Noix, Quebec from Carl Radlmesser in Toronto" (1943). Bulmash Family Holocaust Collection. 2019.2.317.
https://digital.kenyon.edu/bulmash/1639