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Newspaper image of three young men wearing aprons and washing dishes.

Toronto Evening Telegram image entitled “German Refugees Pitch In At Varsity,” February 16, 1942.

- Courtesy Library and Archives Canada/Toronto Evening Telegram/AMICUS 10396701/February 16, 1942, p. 14

Transcript

[Newspaper clipping]

German Refugees “Pitch In” At Varsity

[photo of three men washing and drying dishes]

About a score of young German refugees are cutting out a new democratic pattern of life for themselves while attending the University of Toronto. Most of them are living in one of the co-operative men’s residences there, because as one expressed it: “We think it the best way to regain our full civilian status.” Accepted by the other boys in the residence as part of themselves they have to pitch in and do their full share of such household duties as they are doing above. As many have parents back in Nazi hands, they do not wish their names to be used.