#OtD 12 May 1940 20-year-old Austrian Jewish student Edgar Lion was arrested in Britain. He was sent to a camp on the Isle of Man, then deported to Canada where he was interned alongside other refugees and German Nazis, and given arduous menial labour https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8425/edgar-lion-arrested

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