Internment in Canada 1940-1942

<p dir="ltr">The contributor shared that their father, Manfred Leiserowitsch, was born in 1921 in Berlin. The contributor's paternal grandmother, Hertha Revy, was born in 1897 in Berlin, and their paternal grandfather, Simon Leiserowitsch, was born in Germany in the 1890s. The contributor's paternal grandparents divorced, and soon after, Simon remarried and had a son named Eric Leiseroff, who escaped with his mother to the USA via Spain in 1942. Simon moved to Palestine in the 1930s after divorcing Eric's mother; he was a football player known as "Sim."</p><p>Manfred was sent to England by his mother and her partner in 1938, and his only contact there was Paul Goldschmidt. Manfred moved around London before finding his way to Bradford. He was then sent to an internment camp in Canada with Nazi prisoners of war, where he spent 1940-1942, before returning to the UK. Upon his return, Manfred met difficulty finding work. MP Captain Hubert Beaumont helped Manfred search for his family, and it was discovered that his family had escaped during the war to the USA and Uruguay. A cousin of Manfred's, Siegmund Rodmann, who had been a banker in Berlin, went to Shanghai via Hong Kong. </p><p>Manfred eventually found work in textiles in Bradford, which had a large German-Jewish population. He became successful in the textile business, traveled often, and returned to Germany many times.</p><p>The contributor also shared that a family friend, Walter (Walther) Fein, wrote a play about his experiences as a Jewish refugee in Amsterdam during 1944-1945 titled "Ein Mansardenzimmer in Holland."</p>