Category Archives: The Tailor Project

Online lecture – The Tailor Project – Wed. April 23/25, 4 p.m.

Second Story Press, The Tailor Project

I’ll be giving an online lecture about the Tailor Project / Garment Workers Scheme on Wed. April 23, 4 p.m. EDT. Registration is required.

The Garment Workers’ Scheme / Tailor Project was approved by the Canadian government in 1947 in order to bring approximately 2,000 skilled tailors and dressmakers (with their families) to work in the garment industry in Canada. The program was largely funded by the Canadian Jewish Congress and organized by a group of Jewish industry leaders. A team of five men had the difficult task of choosing garment workers from displaced person’s (DP) camps across Germany and Austria for immigration to Canada.

Drawing on interviews and archival material, I’ll speak about the history and impact of this program to the Tailor Project families and to Canada as a whole.

For more info about the lecture, see: Anne Dublin on “The Tailor Project” – Classi Learning

For more info about the book, see: The Tailor Project – Second Story Press

Anne Dublin on "The Tailor Project" - Classi Learning

The Tailor Project at Holocaust Education Week

Holocaust Education Week, The Tailor Project

I’ll be speaking on the topic, “Gathering More Threads: The Tailor Project 70 Years Later”, as part of Holocaust Education Week at Beth Emeth Bais Yehuda Synagogue (Toronto) on Wed. Nov. 6, 2019, 7:30 PM.
No cost, pre-registration required at the link below:
https://www.beby.org/event/tailorproject

After the Holocaust, over 1,000 Jewish tailors and their families were chosen from displaced persons camps to come to Canada through the Garment Workers’ Scheme (“The Tailor Project”). I’ll be giving an illustrated, interactive lecture that will include the historical context of the Scheme, a short documentary film, and family stories. The Tailor Project is now being rediscovered by Impakt Labs with significant implications for immigrants and refugees coming to Canada.

Sponsored by The Goldfinger Family Fund at Beth Emeth and AJL – Ontario Chapter (Association of Jewish Libraries)