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.
In this Adath Shalom Congregation ZOOM presentation, Anne Dublin, drawing on interviews and archival material, will speak about the history and impact of this program to the Tailor Project families and to Canada as a whole.
Anne Dublin, the daughter of Holocaust survivors, was born in a displaced persons camp in Austria and grew up in Toronto. She is a teacher and an award-winning author.