Toronto, January 22, 2025: Timed to coincide with Holocaust Remembrance Day on January 27, The Walrus Lab, in partnership with the Vancouver Holocaust Education Centre (VHEC), will release The Hidden Holocaust Papers: Survival. Exile. Return., a six-part documentary podcast series that delves into the hidden family history of Canadian author Timothy Taylor. This poignant and deeply personal series uncovers stories of persecution, resilience, and survival during one of history’s darkest periods.
Sponsored by the VHEC and produced by The Walrus Lab, The Hidden Holocaust Papers details what happens after mysterious boxes arrive at Taylor’s Vancouver doorstep. He then embarks on a journey of discovery that takes him to Germany and into a hidden family history, spoken about rarely and in whispered tones. Following the breadcrumbs from remote farmhouses to the well-appointed offices of Germany’s cultural elite, Taylor’s on a mission to piece together his family’s experiences of persecution, death, exile, and survival under the Nazis; to make sure his mother and grandparents are properly commemorated; and to give voice to those the Nazis tried to silence. As he excavates the centuries-long history of his once-prominent German-Jewish family, Taylor asks what that legacy means for him, and us, today.
