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… Time 0:02:44 Transcript I planned my life to have a career in media communication and with my mind set I spent my life to achieve that … Hike to Self-Rediscovery by Ardie …
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… to live, in the late seventies, led to her return to Canada in 1981. We came with the War Brides, but to join my father who had come as an immigrant. As an RAF aircrew trainee, he had been a member … to make a new start here. My father had to come to Canada in 1946 via Sweden and New York in Cargo Freighters because of the shortage of …
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… Welcomed and Welcoming As I awoke in my upper bunk I immediately noticed … the throb of the engine that had accompanied us for the past eight days had ceased. The North Atlantic is not very pacific in the early …
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… Jones, age 7 years, left Liverpool England and arrived in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada on January 17, 1954. We had lived in South End on Sea and then Colchester Essex before …
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… Our family histories are the stories that we decide to repeat and share, editing out the parts that were unclear or unseemly, and over generations those stories become our truths. But what if there was someone who could help decipher … Deciphering Family Facts from Family Lore …
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… and my brother (age 4) and I (age 6) arrived at Pier 21 after a 9 day voyage on the Dutch ship the "Johan van Oldenbarneveldt" out of Rotterdam. The majority of the passengers were, as we were, refugees from the Hungarian Revolution of 1956 on our way to a new life in Canada. We had been waiting in a camp in Holland …
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… Every refugee's experience is alike, and yet unique. When the Russians invaded Budapest in October 1956, thousands of Hungarians - most … At the time of our escape, my family was: Father: Janos Szigetvari 26; Mother: Ilona Barath-Szigetvari 25; Brother: Elemer 5; and myself, … more fortuitously than they could have imagined. As they made their way to the town closest to the Austrian border, my parents were …
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… foreign language in Japan and for six months, I lived in Tokyo and studied Japanese. In high school, I studied Latin, French, German and Spanish. Even though I had high marks, I … I loved learning language. I heard the language all around me and was completely involved in Japanese life, so I learned quickly to get along …
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… prison, and had an opportunity to become a 'guest of General Eisenhower' in the USA as a sought after engineer. My future wife had been … a new country would offer me a new beginning. So, on that fateful day, I struck out on my own, leaving everything I knew behind: my … and picked up some more emigrants at Southhampton where more signs of WWII were evident in the rubble of bombed buildings and more sunken …
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… my sister Vera and me. I was nine years old and my sister was only 3. We left the security and tranquility of our small town Nocciano, in the province of Pescara in the region of Abruzzo, Italy and made our way to Naples. We were filled with excitement but also scared as we had …