Draft:Josef Lainck

Josef Lainck was a German national born on 31 March 1907 in Ochtrup, Westphalia. Lainck emigrated to Canada on a Canadian Pacific ship on 6 July 1927, arriving on 16 July in Quebec City. Lainck travelled west to Edmonton, Alberta on the Canadian Pacific Railway to Edmonton, Alberta where he became a criminal and was deported to Germany in 1938. In Germany he was imprisoned in the Sachsenhausen concentration camp until freed by the Russians in April 1945.

Source. Grams, Grant W. "The Story of Josef Lainck: From German Emigrant to Alien Convict and Deported Criminal to Sachsenhausen Concentration Camp Inmate." Border Crossing 10, no. 2 (2020): 175-188.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.33182/bc.v10i2.1129

https://bordercrossing.uk/bc/article/view/1129

Grams, Grant W. "The Deportation of German Nationals from Canada, 1919 to 1939." Journal of International Migration and Integration 11 (2010): 219-237. DOI:10.1007/s12134-010-0131-y