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… France, Belgium, Holland and Germany Demobilization: January 22, 1946 (26 years, 7 months) In May of 1942 Private Kelly embarked from Pier 21 … Italy, Kelly witnessed a conflagration in the harbour. Earlier in the day a lone German plane had circled the site, it turned out to be a spy …
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… At the time of our escape, my family was: Father: Janos Szigetvari 26; Mother: Ilona Barath-Szigetvari 25; Brother: Elemer 5; and myself, … I still have my family's original Immigration Papers issued that day. On each document our family name was spelled wrong. And, my middle …
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… years of World War Two, Nazi-Germany's defeat and disintegration, American and Soviet occupation, and flight to the West. Like all German … (based on mini-diary and memory) Sun 4 Nov 1951: Hopefully the last day at this crowded (8,000 people!) refugee camp where I don't know a … the mess I'm one of the few taking the job. Across the North Sea all day, by evening the Dover Cliffs are visible; through the Channel …
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… 23 at Halifax’s Neptune Theatre, The New Canadian Curling Club is a comedy about four people brought together to learn the sport. It’s also … four face. Playwright Mark Crawford says even though the play is a comedy at heart, he wanted to get at “ a bigger conversation about who … time,” says Crawford. As the play shows, this dynamic isn’t always easy. The production is directed by Santiago Guzmán (currently also the …
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… Time 0:03:06 Transcript Coming back to Mexico after two years living in Canada was exciting, we … come true, right? Well the reality woke us up abruptly. We found soldiers on the streets, the Mexican government had a war with the drug … have my license, and to work in a radio station in English it was not easy either. So I decided to use my skills and knowledge and transfer …
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… with my father on his bicycle. That time my father told me that you become a researcher, not like me. After that I participate a lot in the … my exams, I came back to my home, and my aunt was in the hospital. She died within a month. She got breast cancer This motivated me to do my … facilities for research. The system of research is set up to make it easy to do my own way of research. My way is to simplify the research …
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… 23 at Halifax’s Neptune Theatre, The New Canadian Curling Club is a comedy about four people brought together to learn the sport. It’s also … four face. Playwright Mark Crawford says even though the play is a comedy at heart, he wanted to get at “ a bigger conversation about who … time,” says Crawford. As the play shows, this dynamic isn’t always easy. The production is directed by Santiago Guzmán (currently also the …
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… Historian (Updated January 28, 2022) Establishing historical significance” is the first skill of historical literacy put forward by the Historical Thinking Project ( www.historicalthinking.ca ). Significance is a challenging concept: one of the things that a historian has … Historical Thinking (2) : Establish Historical Significance …
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… was if my father could go first because you needed a relationship to come to Canada. You have to have a related person. My father, we found … I don’t remember, maybe I did after. I don’t know. GG: Oh, there’s future here. It was our future here. It doesn’t matter, you could see it either way. Really …
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… it. Dad told us that people in the village would wallpaper their outhouses with thousands of worthless bank notes. In 1930, Dad persuaded … unsold western grain constituted one of the severest problems of the day. Conditions worsened, including economic confusion and unemployment … and down the Rhine. Dad is survived by his sisters, Lucia Helfrich and Else Matheis and their families, living in Rodalben, Germany; his wife …