SHOEMAKER is the illustrator of more than 40 books for children. As a member of the Playwrights Guild of Canada, she wrote and directed plays for young audiences to be performed at schools. WATTS has written poems, plays, novels and non-fiction books. Seeking Refuge is not my personal story, however it is based on the kinds of experiences many of the refugee children went through.” The year 2018 marks the eightieth anniversary of this rescue.īOOK: “Seeking Refuge” (Tradewind 2016) $18.95 9781926890029 I did not come to Canada with my husband and four children until 1968. When War broke out, I was evacuated with three million British children to the safety of the countryside, to Lanelly, S. “I came to London, England, in December 1938,” says Watts, “as a seven-year-old refugee. Previously Kathryn Shoemaker co-authored Good-Bye Marianne: The Graphic Novel (Tundra 2008), the first fictional installment of the Kindertransport exodus.
Their story depicts the protagonist’s estrangement in England as a refugee, missing her family and needing to learn English. Shoemaker (illustrations), Seeking Refuge (Tradewind 2017) recalls how the Kindertransport initiative enabled ten thousand Jewish children to escape from Nazi Germany prior to the outbreak of World War II. This book previously received a $10,000 national Vine Award for Jewish Literature in Canada, presented by the Koffler Centre for the Arts, in the 2017 Children’s/Young Adult category. Seeking Refuge captures Irene Watts’ experiences when she was sent to England from Germany on the Kindertransport at the age of seven. Not in My Family: German Memory and Responsibility After the Holocaust (Oxford Univ.
According to Erna Paris, “Roger Frie’s riveting exploration of intergenerational war memory and submerged guilt will be read as an instant classic.” Frie has also been Faculty and Supervisor at the William Alanson White Institute of Psychiatry, Psychoanalysis and Psychology in New York. Roger Frie, a non-Jew, was also previously awarded the 2017 Canadian Jewish Literary Award in the category of history for his investigation of his family’s largely unspoken history. He has explored the moral and psychological implications of memory against the backdrop of one of humanity’s darkest periods with Not in My Family: German Memory and Responsibility after the Holocaust (Oxford University Press 2017). As the son of German postwar immigrants who were children during WW II, Frie has examined how his grandparents were participants in the War, complicit with Nazism, and how this has influenced his own life and thoughts. Psychologist and philosopher, ROGER FRIE, educated in London and Cambridge, is a Professor of Education at Simon Fraser University and Affiliate Professor of Psychiatry at UBC.
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