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by Marsha Faubert

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Finalist, Rakuten Kobo Emerging Writer Prize (Non-Fiction)

What does it mean to be exiled? For the landmarks of your past to disappear?

In 1943, Wanda Gizmunt was ripped from her family home in Poland and deported to a forced labour camp in Nazi Germany. At the end of the war, she became one of millions of displaced Europeans awaiting resettlement.

Unwilling to return to then-Soviet-occupied Poland, Wanda became one of 100 young Polish women brought to Canada in 1947 to address a labour shortage at a Quebec textile mill. But rather than arriving to long-awaited freedom, the women found themselves captives to their Canadian employer. Their treatment eventually became a national controversy, prompting scrutiny of Canada's utilitarian immigration policy.

Wanda seized the opportunity to leave the mill in the midst of a strike in 1948. She never looked back, but she remained silent about her wartime experience. Only after her death did her daughter-in-law assemble the pieces of Wanda's life in Poland, Nazi Germany, and finally, Canada. In this masterful account of a hidden episode of history, Faubert chronicles the tragedy of exile and the meaning of silence for those whose traumas were never fully recognized.

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  • Title Wanda's War: An Untold Story of Nazi Europe, Forced Labour, and a Canadian Immigration Scandal
  • Author Marsha Faubert
  • Binding Paperback
  • Pages 256
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Goose Lane Editions
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Bibliography, Illustrated, Maps
  • ISBN 9781773102757 / 1773102753
  • Weight 0.97 lbs (0.44 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.9 x 5.91 x 0.71 in (22.61 x 15.01 x 1.80 cm)
  • Themes
    • Chronological Period: 1940's
    • Sex & Gender: Feminine
  • Category Biography / Autobiography
  • Library of Congress subjects History, Canada
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 2023445672
  • Dewey Decimal Code B

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