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... Jewish textile industry devise a plan known as the Tailor Project, claiming an urgent need for more tailors. They receive approval to ...
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... April 29, 1947 War Orphans Project November 1947 Tailor Project ...
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... explains how he was admitted to Canada's Tailors Project while working at the Salzburg displaced persons camp in 1947. ... Camp in Salzburg (Austria) when he learned about Canada's Tailor Project. [00:07-00:21] Cut to Holocaust survivor ...
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... population by 10%. Thousands arrived as part of Canada's tailor and furrier programs. The Canadian Jewish Congress purchased several ...
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... > > The Congress found me a job to teach me how to be a tailor. [00:32-01:46] Cut to David Shafran in front of the ... Interview conducted by Robert Krell, Holocaust Documentation Project, Vancouver, 1987, Vancouver Holocaust Education Centre Images: City ...
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... to Kitchener. With the help of a friend, the Kays opened a tailor shop on King Street West. Source: Ontario Jewish Archives, Blankenstein ... screen: Interview conducted by Small Jewish Communities Project, Kitchener, 2007, Ontario Jewish Archives, Blankenstein Family Heritage ...
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... including 131 teenagers arriving through the War Orphans Project. The Jewish Immigrant Aid Society (JIAS) mobilized efforts across the ... Weiss – a survivor who arrived in Winnipeg through the Tailor Project – lobbied for a permanent monument commemorating victims of ...
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... was here that he was selected to move to Canada through the Tailor Project in 1947. (Ontario Jewish Archives, 1985-12/5) ...
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The economic crisis of 1929, also referred to as the Great Depression, leads to major changes in Canadian immigration policy. The number of accepted immigrants is reduced by 80%. ...
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