Paula Simons: New refugee crisis means haunting echoes for Edmonton doctor

They arrived here, to safety, just one week before the Kristallnacht pogrom, the prelude which heralded the beginning of the Final Solution.

George Goldsand was only three at the time: his memories of the familyls ordeal are hazy. Despite going through all the letters, radiograms and official documents his father kept in a shoebox, despite spending hours at the National Archives in Ottawa, Goldsand still doesn't know exactly how or why they was given the chance to come to Canada, when so many others were turned away.