Holocaust Survivors in Canada: Exclusion, Inclusion, Transformation, 1947-1955

In the decade after the Second World War, 35,000 Jewish survivors of Nazi persecution and their dependants arrived in Canada. This was a watershed moment in Canadian Jewish history. The unprecedented scale of the relief effort required for the survivors, compounded by their unique social, psychological, and emotional needs challenged both the established Jewish community and resettlement agents alike. Adara Goldberg's Holocaust Survivors in Canada highlights the immigration, resettlement, and integration experience from the perspective of Holocaust survivors and those charged with helping them. The book explores the relationships between the survivors, Jewish social service organizations, and local Jewish communities; it considers how those relationships--strained by disparities in experience, language, culture, and worldview--both facilitated and impeded the ability of survivors to adapt to a new country. Researched in basement archives and as well as at Holocaust survivors' kitchen tables, Holocaust Survivors in Canada represents the first comprehensive analysis of the resettlement, integration, and acculturation experience of survivors in early postwar Canada. Goldberg reveals the challenges in responding to, and recovering from, genocide--not through the lens of lawmakers, but from the perspective of "new Canadians" themselves.

Author: Adara Goldberg
Publisher: University of Manitoba Press
Published: 09/11/2015
Pages: 312
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.00lbs
Size: 8.90h x 5.90w x 0.80d
ISBN13: 9780887557767
ISBN10: 0887557767
BISAC Categories:
- Social Science | Emigration & Immigration
- History | Modern | 20th Century | Holocaust
- History | Canada | Post-Confederation (1867-)

About the Author
Adara Goldberg received her PhD from the Strassler Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies, Clark University. She is the education director at the Vancouver Holocaust Education Centre.