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Prisoners lead their own lives, German songs ring out into the night from Petawawa interment camp
Prisoners lead their own lives, German songs ring out into the night from Petawawa interment camp

Prisoners lead their own lives, German songs ring out into the night from Petawawa interment camp

Date1/27/1940
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Original Toronto Star caption: Prisoners lead their own lives; German songs ring out into the night from Petawawa interment camp. German is the language prisoners use as they go about their work of chopping wood.
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ProvenanceFrom the Toronto Star Archives
CollectionToronto Star Photograph Archive
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Copyright HolderToronto Star (Firm)
Call Number / Accession NumberTSPA_0019251F
Russian slave laborer here points out a former German guard, right, who beat prisoners in the Nazi camp
Russian slave laborer here points out a former German guard, right, who beat prisoners in the Nazi camp
4/27/1945
Left behind, A crowd of German prisoners lounge about the yard of a prison camp in the Sudbury area, from which an airman and a naval petty officer es(...)
Left behind, A crowd of German prisoners lounge about the yard of a prison camp in the Sudbury area, from which an airman and a naval petty officer es(...)
8/29/1940
Escaped German internee recaptured near Burlington, Within a few hours after he disappeared from a work party at an interment camp west of Toronto, Al(...)
Escaped German internee recaptured near Burlington, Within a few hours after he disappeared from a work party at an interment camp west of Toronto, Al(...)
9/17/1940
Recreation rooms, library and canteen are available to the prisoners, who have their own German cooks
Recreation rooms, library and canteen are available to the prisoners, who have their own German cooks
3/23/1940
Charged with transporting five German prisoners of war, Isaac Kathnelson, 35, is shown next to P
Charged with transporting five German prisoners of war, Isaac Kathnelson, 35, is shown next to P
3/8/1946
Life of Riley ended yesterday for nine German prisoners, five arrested in Toronto while heading for a dance and four others in a Cooksville bootlegger(...)
Life of Riley ended yesterday for nine German prisoners, five arrested in Toronto while heading for a dance and four others in a Cooksville bootlegger(...)
3/9/1946
A group of German prisoners, including a wounded man, left, leave the flaming city under guard of a U
A group of German prisoners, including a wounded man, left, leave the flaming city under guard of a U
10/17/1944
German prisoners bade farewell to Northern Ontario this week after completing pulpwood operations in the Long Lac area
German prisoners bade farewell to Northern Ontario this week after completing pulpwood operations in the Long Lac area
6/11/1946
Kananaskis by prisoners is in the Rockiest wast of Calgary, of the camps enemy aliens are interned [Incomplete]
Kananaskis by prisoners is in the Rockiest wast of Calgary, of the camps enemy aliens are interned [Incomplete]
3/12/1940
A German internee cuts the hair of a fellow prisoner in the camp barber shop
A German internee cuts the hair of a fellow prisoner in the camp barber shop
6/21/1941
Former spitfire pilot C. Wallace Floody, who was shot down in 1941, holds picture of himself taken in a German war-prisoner camp
Former spitfire pilot C. Wallace Floody, who was shot down in 1941, holds picture of himself taken in a German war-prisoner camp
5/7/1975
Nestled in snow, Double wire fencing features the camp-like atmosphere of the internment centre at Petawawa
Nestled in snow, Double wire fencing features the camp-like atmosphere of the internment centre at Petawawa
1/27/1940