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  • Cescato Aldo, Renato
    … and many farmers abandoned the land to work in factories and offices. From 1945 to 1948 there was a little work in cities like … they were caught and returned to Italy since the two countries did not have a work treaty. The first work treaties were made with Belgium for … France. I stayed in France for nearly two years, the work wasn't too bad, but the people in the town did not like us since we had been on …
  • Sapper Melvin E. Clark
    … star Italy Star France Germany Star Defense of Britain Medal CVSM (Can Volunteer Service Medal) Victory Medal …
  • Marjorie Barbara MacBurnie
    … Jean Barnhill's Canadian Studies 4400 project entitled: The Stories of Four English War Brides Who Adapted to Canada: How the War Bride Society Helped Them to Adapt. It is reproduced with … out, it was quite a culture shock for her and she described he first visit at her in-law's place. She was shocked that she had to go through …
  • Sietske Flietstra Bellsmith
    … my brothers, sisters and I were told we were moving to a place called Canada and would live on a huge ship for about nine days to get there. … Aunts & Grandparents visited non-stop and always left in tears. My best friend invited me to dinner to say a formal farewell. Our family … in our new surroundings, I noticed paper bags hanging up above each bed. How weird! I wondered what they were for? Maybe they were to help …
  • LACW Sarah Sharpe Platana
    … with 156 Squadron RAF Pathfinder Group. He is buried along with four of his crew of Lancaster PA984 in the communal cemetery in the … find the right way to begin. I thought I might begin by talking about how when my grandmother died, I received her collection of letters; … with the search I started in 1980 trying to find someone who might have known him during the years he served with 425 Alouette Squadron in …
  • Sarah Sharpe Platana
    … with 156 Squadron RAF Pathfinder Group. He is buried along with four of his crew of Lancaster PA984 in the communal cemetery in the … find the right way to begin. I thought I might begin by talking about how when my grandmother died, I received her collection of letters; … with the search I started in 1980 trying to find someone who might have known him during the years he served with 425 Alouette Squadron in …
  • Flying Officer Daniel D. Platana
    … with 156 Squadron RAF Pathfinder Group. He is buried along with four of his crew of Lancaster PA984 in the communal cemetery in the … find the right way to begin. I thought I might begin by talking about how when my grandmother died, I received her collection of letters; … with the search I started in 1980 trying to find someone who might have known him during the years he served with 425 Alouette Squadron in …
  • Ariella Milanese
    … region, in northeast Italy. She is the second child of four of Romolo Milanese and Anna Pasqualini. A month after Ariella was … picture to send to their father and with the leftover money she would buy each of the girls a little doll as long as they behaved. However, when the photographer tried to make sure that the girls were …
  • Anton and Paula Rouss
    … see any sun in the morning and in the afternoon it became foggy. I can still not get over the fact that I missed the family on shore in … a few trawlers and a Shell tanker. At nine o’clock I brought Paula to bed (men in the bow, women and children aft, some honeymoon). The movie … theatre is too small for all passengers so it is our turn tomorrow. We have not received out train tickets to Toronto yet but we will get them …
  • Pain of Hunger by Sudarson
    … were burned. The citizens opposed it, and the government used armed forces to push people out of the country. More than 70,000 people fled. … it hurts me still. The Government of Bhutan and Nepal did meeting for 15 times to solve the problems of refugee but they are not successes. One day I heard news on a radio saying; UNHCR and other sponsor country for Bhutanese …

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