Trudeau apologizes for 1939 refusal of Jewish refugees
Survivors and families of 900 German Jews whose pleas for asylum Canada ignored during the Holocaust received an official federal apology Oct. 7, as Prime Minister Justin Trudeau vowed more federal help to combat anti-Semitic acts.In 1939, the government of Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King rejected an asylum request from an ocean liner carrying German Jews as it neared Halifax, forcing it back to Europe.
