[Ger-Poland-Volhynia] Articles and books on German immigration to North America

Helen Gillespie gilleh23 at gmail.com
Mon Mar 30 12:30:37 PDT 2015


These theses  and books on German immigration to Canada/USA after WWII
might be of interest for some listers.  They are mostly Canadian, but am
sure must be some American sources somewhere out there.....



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PERMISSION MUST BE OBTAINED FROM THE AUTHOR TO REPRODUCE IN ANY FORMAT.

1. PhD. thesis by Ronald E. Schmalz, University of Ottawa, 2000    entitled
*Former Enemies Come to Canada: Ottawa and the Postwar German Immigration
Boom, 1951-57*,

http://amicus.collectionscanada.ca/aaweb-bin/aamain/itemdisp?sessionKey=1422028441050_142_78_200_14&l=0&lvl=1&v=1&itm=25958574&rt=1&bill=1
(for info on the thesis)

www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/ftp03/NQ57065.pdf  (the thesis)


2. PhD Thesis by Christian Lieb, 2008   University of Victoria entitled:

*Moving West:  German-Speaking Immigration to British Columbia, 1945–1961*
https://dspace.library.uvic.ca/bitstream/handle/1828/904/dissertation.pdf?...

3. MA Thesis by E. Meaghan Harris, Carleton University, Ottawa 2006
entitled:
*East Germans, Refugees, and New Canadians—A Family Migration*

https://curve.carleton.ca/system/files/theses/29727.pdf

4.  Thesis by Pascal Maeder
*Forging a New Heimat: Expellees in Post-War West Germany and Canada*

Info about the thesis:
http://amicus.collectionscanada.ca/aaweb-bin/aamain/itemdisp?sessionKey=1422281313042_142_78_200_14&l=0&lvl=1&v=1&itm=39631375&rt=1&bill=1

The thesis:   http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/obj/thesescanada/vol
<http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/obj/thesescanada/vol2/002/NR68327.PDF>
2/002/NR68327.PDF
<http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/obj/thesescanada/vol2/002/NR68327.PDF>

5. A history that may be of interest:
 *Settling the Canadian-American West, 1890-1915: Pioneer Adaptation and
Community Building * by John W. Bennett, Seena B. Kohl and published by U.
of Nebraska Press in 1995  - covers prairie and frontier life .

A partial digital edition is found at
http://books.google.ca/books?id=S_HALsZ5z5kC&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_atb#v=onepage&q&f=false

in case you are interested in finding a complete copy.

6.  A personal website by Alexandra Molnar, found on the Mt. Holyoke
College website on her grandparents' immigration to the US after WWII.

http://www.mtholyoke.edu/~molna22a/classweb/politics/index.html



Helen



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