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… DEVOLD KOPPERNAES I had the good Fortune to meet Johan on his first day in Canada in the spring or early summer of 1951. Johan grew up in … Johan under his control over night. He made Johan an offer; either come home with him for the night or spend the night locked up in a room in the immigration shed. Johan didn't have any problem figuring out that going home with …
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… to death during his interment at the labour camp (he hid under his bed a bag of acorns which were normally fed to pigs to fatten them, … these early years. There was never any animosity towards Germans. He said that they were "fair" that if you earned a dollar, then you would … with little to welcome someone who had been away from his beloved city and vineyard in San Martino di Colle. There was an enormous amount …
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… describing Canada as the land of milk and honey, felt that the best thing to do was to go overseas. The voyage across the Atlantic on … below deck. Our mother suffered seasickness for the entire ten-day trip. The Zuiderkruis docked at Pier 21 on February 12, 1952. I was … away at seventy-years young. Our father is now eighty-three and has said many times over the years he would never return to Holland. Canada …
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… at the Red Cross Nursery at Pier 21, at blood donor clinics around the city and at Camp Hill Hospital in Halifax. She says a few lasting …
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… September 1965 The Trip It was on the 24th of September 1965, the day I turned 10 years old that we left San Vittore del Lazio, a small town some 150 km south of Rome. We left our aunt’s house very early in the morning to go … found jobs in the nearby factories. I started school the very next day. Back in 4th grade which I had finish that summer in Italy. My aunt …
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… The Trip It was on the 24th of September 1965, the day I turned 10 years old that we left San Vittore del Lazio, a small town some 150 km south of Rome. We left our aunt’s house very early in the morning to go … found jobs in the nearby factories. I started school the very next day. Back in 4th grade which I had finish that summer in Italy. My aunt …
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… because the regular dinner hour was only around 7 o'clock. For holidays we went to the Tatra Mountains in Slovakia, to the Adriatic Ocean … We took dancing lessons in waltzes and foxtrots. Boys lined up one side, girls on the other. I felt awful and tried to hide in the … Nazi occupation making Slovakia a puppet state with Jozef Tiso as president. Tiso was a Catholic priest and because of his collaboration …
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… He was dressed in his best slacks and blazer with a crisp, white shirt and tie. In his pocket … Rossi was arriving at Halifax's Pier 21. This time, however, he had come by car from Toronto not by boat from Naples. He was 68 not 18. He … it was he who would judge. As we approached the restored immigration shed, we passed an old Canadian National rail car that had been used to …
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… Leaving the United States Time 0:01:30 Transcript And I had come from a family where my father had been drafted and served five … um but he had seen enough of horrors on both sides that when it was coming time for me to let them know that I was planning to go to Canada … nearby, the grandparents I knew the best. By then my grandfather had died, but my grandmother, she was under the attitude that the president …
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… and social organisations including unions, student groups, and community associations. [3] Some Chilean exiles came to Canada fleeing … was very empty. All the streets were empty. And I remember was two soldiers in the top of a bridge I used to, but it never come into my mind … University of Chile, April 16, 2018, https://uchile.cl/noticias/142609/fallecio-alejandro-rojas-ex-presidente-de-la-fech ↩ Dora Ashton …