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Wanda's War
- An Untold Story of Nazi Europe, Forced Labour, and a Canadian Immigration Scandal
Engelsk Paperback

Wanda's War

- An Untold Story of Nazi Europe, Forced Labour, and a Canadian Immigration Scandal
Engelsk Paperback

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Shortlisted, Rakuten Kobo Emerging Writer Prize (Non-Fiction)

What does it mean to be exiled? For the landmarks of your past to disappear?

In 1943, Wanda Gizmunt was ripped from her family home in Poland and deported to a forced labour camp in Nazi Germany. At the end of the war, she became one of millions of displaced Europeans awaiting resettlement.

Unwilling to return to then-Soviet-occupied Poland, Wanda became one of 100 young Polish women brought to Canada in 1947 to address a labour shortage at a Quebec textile mill. But rather than arriving to long-awaited freedom, the women found themselves captives to their Canadian employer. Their treatment eventually became a national controversy, prompting scrutiny of Canada’s utilitarian immigration policy.

Wanda seized the opportunity to leave the mill in the midst of a strike in 1948. She never looked back, but she remained silent about her wartime experience. Only after her death did her daughter-in-law assemble the pieces of Wanda’s life in Poland, Nazi Germany, and finally, Canada. In this masterful account of a hidden episode of history, Faubert chronicles the tragedy of exile and the meaning of silence for those whose traumas were never fully recognized.



Product detaljer
Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
256
ISBN-13:
9781773102757
Indbinding:
Paperback
Udgave:
ISBN-10:
1773102753
Udg. Dato:
21 feb 2023
Længde:
16mm
Bredde:
152mm
Højde:
229mm
Forlag:
Goose Lane Editions
Oplagsdato:
21 feb 2023
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