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Faubert, Marsha.
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Gizmunt, Wanda.
Immigrants -- Canada -- Biography.
Polish Canadians -- Biography.
Poland -- History -- Occupation, 1939-1945.
Poland -- History -- Personal narratives.
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Faubert, Marsha.
Gizmunt, Wanda.
Immigrants -- Canada -- Biography.
Polish Canadians -- Biography.
Poland -- History -- Occupation, 1939-1945.
Poland -- History -- Personal narratives.
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Wanda's war : an untold story of Nazi Europe, forced labour, and a Canadian immigration scandal / Marsha Faubert.
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Faubert, Marsha.
Goose Lane Editions, 2023.
Call #:
943
.8053092
F255w
Subjects
Gizmunt, Wanda.
Immigrants -- Canada -- Biography.
Polish Canadians -- Biography.
Poland -- History -- Occupation, 1939-1945.
Poland -- History -- Personal narratives.
ISBN:
9781773102757 (pbk.)
Description:
254 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Notes:
Marsha Faubert is a Toronto-based lawyer with a lengthy history of public service in the administrative justice system in Ontario. She has worked as a litigator, an arbitrator, an adjudicator of appeals in workplace injury and disease claims, and as the director of a provincial tribunal. 'Wanda's War' is her first book.
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Summary:
"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 Québec 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 both Wanda's life story -- from Poland to Nazi labour camps and immigration to Canada -- and the tragedy of exile and the meaning of silence for those whose traumas were never fully recognized. Note: The book also contains information about the story of Wanda's husband, Casey Surdykowski. Casey also grew up in Poland, was deported to Siberia by the Soviets, and then fought in the Anders Army across the Middle East and Italy before immigrating to Canada and meeting Wanda there."--From publisher.
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