Toronto Star: What allowed 1,000 survivors of the Holocaust to come to Canada?

In 1947, Larry Enkin's father led the "garment workers' scheme" to bring 1,000 survivors of the Holocaust to Canada as tailors. Today, the 89-year-old Toronto man has launched the Tailor Project to track down those tailors and their families to document their stories. "I want to know who these individuals were and the contributions they've made to Canada to establish the reality that immigrants do contribute to the country at a time when so many countries are being so anti-immigration."

Read the full story: https://www.thestar.com/news/gta/2018...

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