Kreisel, Henry

Birth Name Kreisel, Henry
Gender male

Events

Event Date Place Description Notes Sources
Birth June 5, 1922 Wien Vienna, Österreich  

Event Note

Henry Kreisel's mother was born in Poland and his father in Romania.

 
Camp 1940 Camp N, at the Quebec Central Railroad property at Newington, outisde Sherbrooke Camp N, at the Quebec Central Railroad property at Newington, Sherbrooke

Event Note

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

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Source References

  1. Prisoners of the home front: German POWs and “enemy aliens” in southern Quebec, 1940-46

Pedigree

    1. Kreisel, Henry