We Don't Become Refugees by Choice

Mia Truskier, Survival, and Activism from Occupied Poland to California, 1920-2014

AvTeresa A. Meade

Inbunden, Engelska, 2021

Del i serien Palgrave Studies in Oral History

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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.

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Utgivningsdatum:2021-11-27
Mått:148 x 210 x 24 mm
Vikt:502 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Palgrave Studies in Oral History
Antal sidor:270
Förlag:Springer Nature Switzerland AG
ISBN:9783030845247

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Teresa Meade is the Florence B. Sherwood Professor of History and Culture at Union College in Schenectady, NY, USA.

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“This book is the biography of a remarkable woman, Maria Mia Truskier … . For readers … this book provides a unique insight into the method of oral history and the challenges it presents. … Meade has published an important book that tells the life story of a person … a biography of an unstoppable woman who impresses with her determination, talent, and willingness to help others.” (Beata Halicka, Polish American Studies, Vol. 80 (2), 2023)

Innehållsförteckning

1. Mia Truskier: The “Oldest Refugee”.- 2. The Making of Mia’s World: Warsaw and Zurich, 1890–1939.- 3. Fleeing Poland, 1939–1940.- 4. Hiding in Plain Sight: Italy, 1940–1945.- 5. The War Years in Warsaw and the Soviet Union, 1939–1945.- 6. Poland: In the Warsaw Ghetto and on the Aryan Side, 1939–1945.- 7. The Aftermath of War in Europe, 1945–1949.- 8. Mia’s American World: From Nebraska Immigrant to California Activist, 1949–1970.- 9. “Don’t Give In, Don’t Give Up!” Refugees and the East Bay Sanctuary Covenant, 1968–2014.