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Item Information   Copy / Holding Information     More Content       More by this author     Grohmann-Babinec, Berta.     Subjects     Grohmann-Babinec, Berta.     Grohmann Knives Limited -- History.     Immigrants -- Nova Scotia -- Biography.     Businesswomen -- Nova Scotia -- Biography.     Business enterprises -- Nova Scotia -- History.     Knives -- Canada -- Nova Scotia -- History.     Pictou (N.S.) -- History     Pictou (N.S.) -- Biography.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Grohmann-Babinec, Berta.       by title:      The Grohmann journey...       by call number:      338.092 G874g     Search the Web     Grohmann-Babinec, Berta.     Grohmann-Babinec, Berta.     Grohmann Knives Limited -- History.     Immigrants -- Nova Scotia -- Biography.     Businesswomen -- Nova Scotia -- Biography.     Business enterprises -- Nova Scotia -- History.     Knives -- Canada -- Nova Scotia -- History.     Pictou (N.S.) -- History     Pictou (N.S.) -- Biography.       MARC Display

The Grohmann journey to freedom : a true story / by Berta Grohmann-Babinec. by Grohmann-Babinec, Berta. The author], c2013. Call #: 338.092 G874g Subjects Grohmann-Babinec, Berta.   Grohmann Knives Limited -- History.   Immigrants -- Nova Scotia -- Biography.   Businesswomen -- Nova Scotia -- Biography.   Business enterprises -- Nova Scotia -- History.   Knives -- Canada -- Nova Scotia -- History.   Pictou (N.S.) -- History   Pictou (N.S.) -- Biography. ISBN:  9781554839681 (pbk.) Description:  136 p. : ill., ports. ; 21 cm. Summary:  "Berta Grohmann-Babinec was 25 years old when she arrived in Canada. She had immigrated here with her family and settled down in the small town of Pictou, Nova Scotia. She describes her childhood, what she and her family went through during the war, the nightmares after the war, and her journey to Canada"--Back cover. "Grohmann Knives Limited is a small family business with a big reputation. It is an Old World story that began before the second World War, when a commercial buyer from Quebec traveled once a year to a factory in Sudetenland, then a German region of Czechoslovakia, to buy pocket knives. Every year the buyer would urge Rudolph Grohmann the production manager at a plant in Mikulasovice (Nixdorf), to come to Canada , promising him help to get started. Mr. Grohmann would always decline as he was happy in his own country, but after the war, the political situation grew desperate and in 1949 Rudolph Grohmann accepted the offer. Rudolph's daughter Berta married Michael Babinec Sr who was from Rudno nad Hrohom. Within a year, Grohmann and his family arrived in Nova Scotia at the invitation of the provincial government-funded Pictou Cutlery. Grohmann Knives Limited was formed in 1961 by the family and was run by one of Grohmann's daughters, Berta, & her husband Michael Babinec Sr."--grohmannknives.com website. Holds:  0   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Item type Status   Central Library Local History Collection 338.092 G874g Non-circulating Local History Room - Central Library, 4th Floor Add Copy to MyList

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