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… Paudyn 1921-2008 Richard was born in Warsaw on November 27th 1921. He was baptized in St. Andrew Catholic Church in Warsaw. His parents … they were transferred to Palestine and to Egypt. The Polish Army was ready to go to the battle. Officially Richard’s regiment was fighting …
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… Czechoslovak leaders that if their reforms continued, they would come with grave consequences. Moscow demanded that the Communist Party … the 1960s Many of the Prague Spring refugees, who had applied to come to Canada at Canadian embassies across Europe, arrived by … horizon. There were ramblings in Moscow that the Soviets are ready to come to ‘help’ us to make sure that we follow the ‘right way’ of …
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… Diary Entries Friday, April 26 I left Sheffield at 9 am and was met in London by the Canadian Army … until bedtime. Monday, April 29 Monday morning we were awakened by a voice at the microphone saying,"6:30: time to rise and shine, come on girls, get out of bed." We were up on deck by 7:30 and our …
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… The Otto Froese Family My son Robert and his wife Cindy attended a … day at Pier 21. It was exactly 50 years to the day that we arrived in Canada. My husband and children totally surprised me by having my … Westfalen, West Germany, located us. Her father Gustaf Andres came to visit. He entered the courtyard where children were playing, and asked …
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… At age 11, my father sold the farm and built a house right in the heart of Waterland-Ouderman. My father was the Mayor of the town and … changed and despite Belgium being neutral at the start of World War II, German forces invaded my country on May 10, 1940. In just 18 days … were now a country under occupation which we would endure for the next four years. As mayor and a very influential business man in the region, …
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… being fought. But there I was, 21 years of age, and finally I had the chance to get my sea legs. It was just before Christmas, 1950, when my … were complete and I could leave Europe to start my new life in Canada. The United States, first choice for all of my fellow refugees, … the next watery mountain, getting totally submerged. The stern would come up first, leaving the props to spin in the air, producing the most …
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… 500,000 Polish nationals and deported a further 500,000 individuals in four waves of mass deportations from eastern Poland to labour camps in … Many of the older children added that they had voluntarily chosen to come to Canada despite communist claims to the contrary. Image of USAT … her parents had died in Siberia, she and her compatriots “…wanted to come to Canada, we do not want to go back to Poland.” [13] Meanwhile, a …
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by Jan Raska, PhD, Historian Introduction: Up to the early 1980s, refugee claimants had the possibility of appealing a negative outcome to their refugee claims. However, Canada’s refugee determination system remained partial to the interests of the Canadian government rather than the claimant. The …
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… that medical and physical requirements of the Immigration Act were “[f]or the protection of residents of Canada, and to ensure that …
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By Haroon Khalid, Anam Zakaria, and Emily Burton, PhD, Oral Historian “Reality is reality. It is more difficult than imagination…We’re adapting, whatever’s happening. We were okay, we’re still okay, and we will always be okay, hopefully.” Rammah Mohammad. [1] Introduction In 2024, the Canadian …