Haapalah / Aliyah Bet

In September, 1938, planning began regarding the internment of Enemy Aliens, including the selection of sites for camps.
After the war started, tribunals were set up to categorize Enemy Aliens among the following categories:
* A, those to be interned
* B, those not interned, but restricted
* C, those to be at liberty
by the middle of October, 1939, Enemy Aliens started to be interned.
In May, 1940, concerns regarding a German invasion prompted an order to intern all Enemy Alien males between ages 16 to 70.
By the end of May, 1940, orders were given to arrest and intern all male and female Enemy Aliens.
Ultimately, camps included Enemy Aliens, political prisoners, and illegal refugees.
In addition to Great Britain and the Isle of Man, camps were established in Australia, Canada, Cyprus, Kenya, Mauritius, and Palestine.

During World War II, approximately 38,000 Germans were detained in 25 permanent internment camps and dozens of smaller work camps throughout Canada, under the Department of National Defence (DND)'s Directorate of Internment Operations.
Of these, 34,000 internees were POWs from all branches of the German armed forces.
The Canadian Goverment authorized construction of 5 internment camps in southern Quebec:
* Camp A, on the Dominion Experimental Farm, at Farnham
* Grande Ligne
* Camp I, at Fort Lennox, on Île-aux-Noix
* Camp N, at the Quebec Central Railroad property at Newington, outisde Sherbrooke
* Sorel
Martin F. Auger cites:
* Camp S, at the fort on Île Ste. Hélène, in Montreal, "whose purpose was to incarcerate Italian inmates."
Martin F. Auger cites: Temporary internment centers were constructed in Quebec:
* Camp L, at Cove Fields, on the Plains of Abraham
* Camp T, at the exhibition grounds at Trois Rivières
* Camp V, at Valcartier

Camp T, located on the exhibition grounds at Trois Rivières was meant as a temporary camp, holding POWs, as well as Jewish and Christian internees and Enemy Aliens.

Gerald Frey was interned in Camp T, at Trois Rivières, for several weeks, and then transferred to Camp B, at Minto, for 11 months as an Enemy Alien, before he was declared a refugee from Nazi oppression, rather than of a POW, and was given the choice to remain interned in Canada for the duration, or return to England on a Canadian troopship
In 1942, Gerald Frey, with his friend, Siegmund Loeffelholz, sailed on a Canadian troopship to England.
Some of the boys from the Kindertransport, later joined the British Army, and fought in the war against Germany.

Hans Reichefeld disembarked MS Sobieski at Quebec,and transferred to Camp T, in Trois Rivières,so a short stop-over.

Walter Kohn, age 17 years, travelled as part of a British convoy to Quebec City; and from there, by train, to Camp T, in Trois Rivières, and Camp , near Sherbrooke.