Workbook issued to Boris Afanasiew by the government of Belgium. The booklet is 16 pages long. The first half quotes or summarizes Belgian law about the use of the workbook. The rest of the booklet provides spaces for employers to document when the holder was working for them. Boris is recorded in the book as a miner. The book was issued in Belgium on December 29, 1947.
Donated to Pier 21, July 5 2009, by Victor Afanasiev.
Victor Afanasiev's family lived in White Russia (now Belarus) until they were displaced by the Second World War. They came to Canada as Displaced Persons on board SS Volendam, arriving in Quebec on July 21, 1951. Victor donated his father Boris' papers.
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