The Barrier in Experience: The Holocaust Films of Canadian Survivor Jack Kuper
Jeremy Maron
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May 2020
Jack Kuper is an author, filmmaker and Holocaust survivor from Toronto (Fig. 1). He immigrated to Canada in 1947 at the age of 15 as part of the Canadian Jewish Congress’ War Orphans Project, which brought to Canada approximately one thousand Jewish children orphaned by the Holocaust.
1 Kuper has published two autobiographical novels –
Child of the Holocaust (1967), about his experiences on the run and in hiding in rural Poland during the Second World War, and
After the Smoke Cleared (1994), which covers his post-war immigration and assimilation into Canada, and his adulthood.
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