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Date: Thursday January 15, 2026
Time: 7:00pm
Via Zoom
Cost: FREE
Join us January 15 on Zoom to listen to author Ian Darragh discuss the harrowing experience of Jewish refugees who were imprisoned in internment camps in Canada during the Second World War.
Among the interned refugees were doctors, musicians, artists, engineers, architects, scientists and two future Nobel Prize winners. Some of the Jewish internees were survivors of Buchenwald and Dachau and were dealing with severe trauma. Many were teenagers as young as 16 who had been saved from the Holocaust by the Kindertransport program, only to be arrested by the British as enemy aliens. Despite facing harsh and hostile treatment in Canada, these internees demonstrated remarkable determination.
Ian Darragh will illustrate his talk with photos and artwork created by the refugees themselves. He will describe the ambitious plans to commemorate this little-known chapter in Canadian history which holds many lessons for today.
Date: Thursday January 15, 2026
Time: 7:00pm
Via Zoom
Cost: FREE
Join us January 15 on Zoom to listen to author Ian Darragh discuss the harrowing experience of Jewish refugees who were imprisoned in internment camps in Canada during the Second World War.
Among the interned refugees were doctors, musicians, artists, engineers, architects, scientists and two future Nobel Prize winners. Some of the Jewish internees were survivors of Buchenwald and Dachau and were dealing with severe trauma. Many were teenagers as young as 16 who had been saved from the Holocaust by the Kindertransport program, only to be arrested by the British as enemy aliens. Despite facing harsh and hostile treatment in Canada, these internees demonstrated remarkable determination.
Ian Darragh will illustrate his talk with photos and artwork created by the refugees themselves. He will describe the ambitious plans to commemorate this little-known chapter in Canadian history which holds many lessons for today.