Yes. Some sense of that actually. I personally was never poor. However my father was the son of shoemaker from Chicago. He used to tell me vivid stories of how my grandmother beat his head against a radiator. A vicious and brutalized life.

That said, children are pretty mean. We were awful to the native kid in my neighborhood.

My sources are as good as yours, I guess. Were you there?

They were far more marginalized than Jewish Canadians, today. For one thing, as far as I can remember every one of those countries had specific laws restricting Jewish rights at one level or another, prior to the appearance of the NSDAP on the political landscape. France in particular had a very sorry track record in this regard, when Hitler was still wetting his diapers. European anti-semetism of the 1930's is a completely different kettle of fish then what we see today.

Back then the Canadian prime minister openly expressed antisemitic ideas, and this was indeed common for politicians of all stripes of the era. That is very far from the reality of today.