We Don't Become Refugees by Choice
Mia Truskier, Survival, and Activism from Occupied Poland to California, 1920-2014
This book traces the life of Maria Mia Truskier, who fled the Nazis as a young Polish Jew in early 1940 and once safely resettled in the United States, became an activist for other refugees, earning renown in the Bay Area as the oldest refugee of the East Bay Sanctuary Covenant. Mia worked for decades assisting those fleeing from war, violence and hardship, mainly from Central America and Haiti. Based on extensive interviews with Truskier before she passed away, as well as memorabilia from her own lifetime, including coded letters, newspaper clippings, and old photographs, this book results in a complex and multi-layered oral history. As Mia…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-3-030-84524-7
- EAN: 9783030845247
- Produktnummer: 38058280
- Verlag: Springer International Publishing
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2021
- Seitenangabe: 296 S.
- Masse: H21.6 cm x B15.3 cm x D2.1 cm 498 g
- Auflage: 1st ed. 2021
- Abbildungen: HC runder Rücken kaschiert
- Gewicht: 498
Über den Autor
Teresa Meade is the Florence B. Sherwood Professor of History and Culture at Union College in Schenectady, NY, USA.
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