Nothing To Be Written Here 47 min • Canada, 1996 Wendy Oberlander, Director

Exiled from Austria and transferred to Canada in 1940, Peter Oberlander was one of over two thousand Jewish refugees held by Ottawa as "dangerous enemy aliens" behind barbed wire alongside Nazi POWs. Seeking to undo the erasure of her father’s story, director Wendy Oberlander skillfully excavates a silent chapter of Canadian history, while recording yet another unknown moment of twentieth century Jewish life. In an atmosphere of inquiry that is at once political, personal, and spiritual, she explores the infinite text of Jewish exile and escape.

Program presented as part of the Western Jewish Studies Association annual conference at the University of Washington.

Special guest: Director Wendy Oberlander