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An estimated , German Jewish military personnel served in the German Army during Contents. 1 Overview. Pre-World War I; World War I; Weimar Republic and Nazi Germany; After World War II. 2 List of German Jewish.
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Jewish Canadians even less so, but they should be.

Though he steadfastly refuses to share his personal war experiences, my grandfather notes with pride that about 40 percent of the military-age Jewish male population of Canada enrolled for active service, most of them volunteers who were dispatched overseas. Roughly 44, Canadian service members died in the Second World War, and more than a third of those were in the Air Force, including many of the men with whom my grandfather served.

Only in , after years of rebuffing inquiries into his wartime experiences, did my grandfather finally start opening up to me, asking me to help research Canter for a Toronto war memorial for Jewish vets. My widowed grandfather remains relatively vibrant at age 97, with four children, nine grandchildren and 12 great-grandchildren as his lasting legacy.

All I know for sure is that he was a navigator in the Lancaster and Vickers Wellington bombers, and he flew missions over Europe from his base in England between and He had a family, and he started a clothing business in Toronto. After retiring, he spent his winters in Florida, playing golf and bridge and regaling his grandchildren with jokes and Yiddish sayings.

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But there was one chapter of his life that remained perpetually sealed: He would never tell us, or anyone else, what he endured during the war. When given the chance, my grandfather would talk about almost anything besides himself or deflect with a joke. Have you heard of that one? The vessel that carried him across the Atlantic was the Queen Elizabeth, then the largest passenger ship in the world. It was during this journey to war, on a luxury liner converted into a packed troop transport, that my grandfather and Canter met and bonded.

Canter and my grandfather were each born in and grew up in downtown Toronto, each graduating from high school before enlisting, earning their wings in training and heading off to battle. They exchanged letters throughout their time in combat. The paths they followed after the war diverged significantly. My grandfather, the youngest of seven children, returned home and never looked back. Canter eventually made it to Toronto, but he never reconnected with my grandfather, and he struggled to find his way after the war, I learned from his family. He had energy and drive, but he had trouble finding a job in which he could apply it.

He worked for a while as a draftsman, but he must have longed to fly again, and when he heard, through word of mouth in the Jewish community, that there were aviation opportunities in the new state of Israel, he went. In , as Israel prepared to declare itself a sovereign nation, it sought foreign assistance to fight the Arab nations moving against it.

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Thousands of mostly Jewish volunteers from around the world with combat experience made their way to Israel — often in clandestine fashion, to avoid running into trouble with their own governments. Canter arrived in Israel on Aug. Late on the night of Oct. Just minutes after takeoff, the right engine began to overheat and spit out flames.

Canter redirected for an emergency landing, but the engine exploded within sight of the airfield, breaking off a wing and sending the Dakota spiraling to the ground. Canter was 27 when he died. By that time, my grandfather was already a struggling young salesman and father in Toronto. He had balls, but he cried at the drop of a hat. Between March and February , the period when my grandfather was deployed, members of crews that ran a full tour of 30 bombing operations had a grim 16 percent survival rate, according to the Bomber Command Museum of Canada. Unlike their American counterparts, the Canadians and the Royal Air Force flew their missions at night.

Their aircraft had no belly gunners and were at the mercy of Luftwaffe fighters that attacked from below.

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