Polish Orphans of Tengeru: The Dramatic Story of Their Long Journey to Canada 1941-49 [Paperback]

Dr. Lynne Taylor (Author)

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Paperback: 280 pages
Publisher: Dundurn (Dec 14 2009)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1554880041
ISBN-13: 978-1554880041
Product Dimensions: 22.6 x 15.2 x 1.8 cm
Shipping Weight: 440 g
Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #101,938 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #21 in Books > History > Europe > Former Soviet Republics & Siberia
- #44 in Books > History > Europe > Poland
- #61 in Books > Nonfiction > Social Sciences > Children's Studies

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Polish Orphans of Tengeru is the story of 123 Polish Catholic Displaced Person (DP) orphans who were brought to Canada from East Africa in 1949 as part of the settlement of the postwar DP crisis. They arrived in East Africa in a mass exodus of Poles out of the gulags of Siberia in 1942 and 1943.

As they were being moved from Tanganyika in 1949, through Italy and Germany to Canada, the situation became an international incident. Warsaw protested that Canada and the International Refugee Organisation, with the active collaboration of the American and British governments, were kidnapping the children to use as slave labour on Canadian farms and in Canadian factories, tearing them from their families in Poland. The incident even reached the floor of the General Assembly of the United Nations, and dragged the Italian, British, and American governments before all was said and done.

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Dr. Lynne Taylor has been an associate professor in the Department of History of the University of Waterloo since 1992. Her research focuses on the social history of the Second World War and its immediate aftermath. Taylor lives in Waterloo.

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5.0 out of 5 stars The Side-Effects of WWII Come to Life, Mar 3 2011

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What a terrific example of how to bring the living story of people in crisis out of a bunch of old papers. You can feel the heat of Africa, the cold of Canada and the terror created by the Soviets. Taylor reconstructs the story of these children with level-headed empathy, from the night they were rounded up by the Soviet secret police and sent east in box cars, through their escapes into India and Africa and their trials as political pawns in the Cold War in Europe and final sanctuary in Canada.

These children weren't central to the history of the 1940s, but their peripheral story reveals the global reach of the hardship and displacement caused by the Second World War and the unrelenting fear unleashed by Stalin. Megan Koreman, PhD

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