Peter Mansbacher papers

Peter Mansbacher papers 

Peter Mansbacher (1922-1994) was born Fritz Ludwig Mansbacher in Lübeck, Germany to Martin and Juliane Mansbacher. Concerned for his safety, his parents secured him a place on a Kindertransport to England in December 1938 where he passed through several refugee camps in 1939, spent a brief time at the Southwest Essex Technical College, and was then housed with the Norman family in Over. When England declared war on Germany in 1939, Mansbacher was classified as a category C alien and labeled a"Refugee from Nazi Oppression" but he was arrested and interned when Germany launched major operations in Western Europe in April 1940. He was moved through several internment camps in England before being relocated via the MS Sobieski to Canada, where he passed the rest of 1940 and most of 1941 in three different Canadian internment camps. He secured his release through the sponsorship of a Canadian family, completed his secondary education in Canada, and became a naturalized Canadian citizen in October 1946. 

Peter Mansbacher papers