The war created a major refugee crisis and some 250,000 Jewish refugees remained in Displaced Person (DP) camps in Germany, Austria and Italy. Canadian Jews and the Canadian Jewish Congress (CJC) acted as their representatives and lobbied the government to help Jewish survivors of the Holocaust.
In 1947, the government finally agreed to allow 1,123 Holocaust orphans to enter. The Canadian Jewish community took on all of the responsibility for their care. Canada also accepted 2,500 Jewish refugees from Europe as garment workers as part of the Tailor Project. Canada would eventually take in some 40,000 Jewish refugees in the decade following the war.