Born in 1940, Vancouver-based Jean Gerber is not a JBB—a Jew by birth. She is a JBC—a Jew by choice. She has been a mainstay of Jewish Canadian journalism, via Canadian Jewish News, ever since she read the transcripts of the Nuremberg trials for a professor at Penn State and realized she had never been taught about the Holocaust in all her years of schooling. For 27 years, she contributed more than 300 columns to the CJN. After earning a B.A. in History at Penn State in 1961, and an M.A. in English from SFU in 1969, she received an M.A. in history from UBC in 1989 that was based on the experiences of nearly 400 survivors of the Holocaust who came to the city. It was released as Immigration and integration in post-war Canada: a case study of Holocaust survivors in Vancouver, 1947–1970 VHES.

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