In the decade after the Second World War, 35,000 Jewish survivors of Nazi persecution and their dependants arrived in Canada. This was a watershed moment in Canadian Jewish history. Goldberg reveals the challenges in responding to, and recovering from, genocide from the perspective of "new Canadians" themselves.

Adara Goldberg received her PhD from the Strassler Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies, Clark University. She is the education director at the Vancouver Holocaust Education Centre.