- Paperback: 280 pages
- Publisher: Dundurn Group Ltd (24 Aug 2009)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 1554880041
- ISBN-13: 978-1554880041
- Product Dimensions: 22.6 x 15.2 x 1.8 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,434,919 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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This is the story of 123 Polish Catholic Displaced Person (DP) orphans who were brought to Canada from East Africa in 1949 as part of the settlement of the post-war DP crisis. They arrived in East Africa in a mass exodus of Poles out of the gulags of Siberia in 1942 and 1943. As they were being moved from Tanganyika in 1949, through Italy and Germany to Canada, the situation became an international incident. Warsaw protested that Canada and the International Refugee Organisation, with the active collaboration of the American and British governments, were kidnapping the children to use as slave labour on Canadian farms and in Canadian factories, tearing them from their families in Poland. The incident even reached the floor of the General Assembly of the United Nations, and dragged the Italian, British, and American governments before all was said and done.
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As a non-academic I read this with a lay-persons interest and I was gripped from start to finish by the author's ability to weave a tale from what must have been a disparate scattering of documents. The quotes from the 'children' themselves were wonderful and brought a personal touch. I felt, by the end, that I knew some of the characters and I had a real understanding of the hardships they endured.
I would recommend this to anyone with an interest in 20th century history.
I would recommend this to anyone with an interest in 20th century history.
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The Side-Effects of WWII Come to Life
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What a terrific example of how to bring the living story of people in crisis out of a bunch of old papers. You can feel the heat of Africa, the cold of Canada and the terror created by the Soviets. Taylor reconstructs the story of these children with level-headed empathy, from the night they were rounded up by the Soviet secret police and sent east in box cars, through their escapes into India and Africa and their trials as political pawns in the Cold War in Europe and final sanctuary in Canada.
These children weren't central to the history of the 1940s, but their peripheral story reveals the global reach of the hardship and displacement caused by the Second World War and the unrelenting fear unleashed by Stalin. Megan Koreman, PhD
These children weren't central to the history of the 1940s, but their peripheral story reveals the global reach of the hardship and displacement caused by the Second World War and the unrelenting fear unleashed by Stalin. Megan Koreman, PhD
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