A. Bilecki was a possible transfer from Kananaskis to Fredericton.

Pte. Saunders was born in Long Reach, Kings Country, in 1892. In 1914, he joined the 115th Battalion and then transferred to the fighting 26th. He served in Great Britain, France, Belgium, and Germany. Upon returning home in 1919, he married Caroline Rivers of Medford, Victoria County. Having three daughters during WWII, he joined the Veterans Guard of Canada and served as a guard at the Ripples Internment Camp from 1940-1945.

Alfred Alius was a possible transfer from Kananaskis to Camp B-70.

Charles Collins was born on November 15, 1889, in the County of Gateshead. Before enlisting, he was a coal miner, farmer, and labourer. In 1910, Collins married Jane Faulder in Durham, England, and had two children (Jesse and Thomas). 

Collins served during WW1 and served in the Veteran Guards of Canada in WW2 from 1940 to 1944 when he received the Canadian Volunteer Service Medal. He was discharged at his own request to return to civil life. Charles Collins died on October 24th, 1969, in North Minto at the age of 80. 

Clarence Wade was born in Penniac, New Brunswick and was a member of the #7 Company of the Veteran Guards. Wade was sent to Trois Rivieres as one of the 150 guards that brought the prisoners from Camp T to Camp B-70.

David E. Stark served in WW1 as a Captain with the Newfoundland Regiment, and before WW2, he lived on a farm on West St. John with his family (two sons and one daughter).

He began his duties at Camp B-70 on August 9th, 1940, and was a Quatermaster. He was responsible for all supplies (food, clothing, building supplies, garbage, etc.). During Phase 1, Capt. Stark had an important role in obtaining Kosher food from Fredericton for the Jewish internees.

Phase 1 Internee

Dr. Arno Cahn was part of a group at Camp B-70 known as Group Five. After his release from the internment camp, Cahn became an organic chemist at Lever Brothers in New York.

Dr. Carl Amberg was born on December 16, 1923, in Aachen, Germany. He was sixteen years old and studying in Winchester College in England when he was arrested. Amberg was taken to Canada around 1939 and brought to Camp B-70 in New Brunswick. He was released from Camp B-70 around May 1942.

Amberg continued his studies in Queen’s University where he got his BA and MA. He later earned a Ph.D. in chemistry from the University of Toronto. He taught chemistry at Carleton University and became the Chairman of the Department. He also became the Dean of Graduate Studies and Research at Carleton University until 1980. He also played the cello and when he no longer could, he sang with the Carleton University Choir. 

Phase 1 Internee

Edgar Lion was born in 1920 in Vienna, Austria to an affluent Jewish family. In 1938, his family sent him to Scotland to study engineering at the University of Edinburgh. In 1940, he was interned as a enemy alien in Liverpool, the Isle of Man, and Glasgow, before being sent to Canada.

Upon arriving in Canada, Lion was initially interned in Trois Rivieres, QC (Camp T), then sent to Ripples, NB (Camp B-70), and finally to Sherbrooke, QC (Camp N).

In December 1942, he was released from Camp N and began studying civil engineering at McGill University. He remained in Canada working in construction management until his retirement when he settled in Notre-Dame-de-Grâce, QC. Until 2014, he also volunteered as a regular speaker at the Montreal Holocaust Museum.

Phase 1 Internee

Egon Stark was born in Vienna, Austria in 1920 and lived to be 96 years old. He received his BSA in Agronomy, a MS in Microbiology from the University of Winnipeg, a PhD from Purdue University.

Stark was a Professor Emeritus at the Department of Biology, Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT). He taught bacteriology, biotechnology, mycology, virology, and about human parasites for twenty-one years. After retirement, he presented lectures on Fine Arts at the Athenaeum, RIT.

Stark collected stamps, drew, painted, photographed, gardened, and played the alto saxophone. He is survived by his three children, Sandra, Eliot, and Jeffrey.

Enno Ahlers was a possible transfer from Kananaskis to Camp B-70.

Ernest Colwell was a Sargent at Camp B-70.

Phase 1 Internee

Fredrick “Fritz” Bender was an inventor and Dr. of Chemical Engineering who escaped Nazi oppression via a rowboat from Holland. He was eventually picked up by a British submarine and taken to London and, subsequently, to Canada. His wife and child died in Holland.

During his time in Camp B-70, he was part of Group 3 and taught courses in polymer chemistry for other internees. While in the camp B-70, he told the District Forest Officer, Jack Veness, about his background and research in polymer glues, who then began arranging for his liberation. He was briefly transferred to Camp N in Sherbrooke, QC before his release in June 1942 to work on plywood production for the Mosquito (a light bomber plane).

George Harry Burbery was a guard at Camp B-70. He was the grandfather of Debbie Kantor Hawkins.

Gunter Badeleben was a student at a college in Scotland before being interned and taken to Canada. In Canada, he was an internee at Camp B-70, and upon his release, Badeleben went to study at the Guelph Agricultural Collage. Later, he would become a chemist in Toronto.

Helmut Blume was born on April 12, 1914, in Berlin, Germany. He fled Germany to London in 1940 to avoid serving in the military for the Nazis. Upon the declaration of war, he was interned as an “enemy alien” and transported to Canada where he was interned in camps N and B-70. He was released from Camp N in 1942.

Blume was a noted broadcaster, pianist, and music educator, who postwar, produced award-winning radio and television broadcasts for CBC. He also served as dean of the Faculty of Music at McGill University from 1964-1979, and opened the school’s opera workshop at McGill University. A music scholarship there is named in his honor. Blume was awarded the Centennial Medal of Canada in 1967, and was made a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, Londong in 1976.

Ivan Alexander was seventeen years-old when he travelled to Fredericton with Sherman Phillips as a carpenter-apprentice. He worked in the Guard House, finishing the walls, and also worked on the guard’s huts at Camp B-70.

Alexander recalled seeing internees each carrying an axe and a handle. He said that when the internees returned, they would only be carrying the axe head. Alexander suspected that it was done intentionally so they would not have to work the next day.

Phase 1 Internee

John Newmark (Hans Neumark), born in 1904 in Bremen, Germany, was a famous musician who became a naturalized Canadian in 1946 and was made an Officer of the Order of Canada in 1973 and received the Canadian Music Council Medal in 1979.

At 17, he auditioned in Berlin for Coenraad V. Bos, the noted accompanist, who predicted a brilliant future for him. He performed recitals with the violinist Szymon Goldberg and co-founded the Neue Kammermusik Bremen society. He fled his homeland to England to escape Nazism. There he performed concerts, notable with the soprano and the violinist Max Rostal. He was eventually arrested by the British and imprisoned on the Isle of Man and later sent to Canada. He was interned in Camp B-70 until 1944.

Newmark took part in thousands of recitals, concerts, and radio and TV broadcasts. He accompanied more than 80 foreign and at least 160 Canadian artists and has recorded with several of the most prominent. His long collaboration with Maureen Forrester began in 1953; with her he toured the world.

Newmark died in 1991, leaving behind a huge discography.

Joseph Adamas was a possible transfer from Kananaskis to Camp B-70.

K. Ahrenstedt was a possible transfer from Kananaskis to Camp B-70.

Osveldo Giacomelli was first interned in Camp Petawawa on June 18, 1940, before being transferred to Camp B-70. He was an Italian Canadian internee and before his death he spoke to journalist and academic about his internment.

He was released on May 29, 1945, and is considered one of the longest Italian Canadian internees at the camp. Giacomelli claimed to have been wrongfully interned and sued the Government of Canada in 2005, though there is suggestion that he was a fascist supporter and Mussolini-adherent. He died in 2006 and the case was still unresolved.

P. Abele was a possible transfer from Kananaskis to Camp B-70.