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.
Authors
- Bibliography, etc. Note
- Includes bibliographical references: p. [275]-278
- Control Number Identifier
- CaOOCEL
- Dewey Decimal Classification Number
- 940.53/161
- Dewey Decimal Edition Number
- 22
- General Note
- Issued as part of the desLibris books collection
- Geographic Area Code
- e-pl---
- ISBN
- 9781554880041 9781459710269
- LCCN
- D810.C4
- LCCN Item number
- T39 2009eb
- Modifying agency
- CaBNVSL
- Original cataloging agency
- CaOONL
- Physical Description | Extent
- 1 electronic text (278 p.)
- Published in
- Canada
- Publisher or Distributor Number
- CaOOCEL
- Rights
- Access restricted to authorized users and institutions
- System Control Number
- (CaBNVSL)slc00230977 (OCoLC)821216832 (CaOOCEL)433419
- System Details Note
- Mode of access: World Wide Web
- Transcribing agency
- CaOONL
Table of Contents
- Title 4
- Copyright 5
- Table of Contents 6
- Acknowledgements 8
- Introduction 10
- 1 | Deportation to the East 12
- 2 | The Route to Tengeru 56
- 3 | The Postwar Settlement 92
- 4 | Doors Closing 128
- 5 | Confrontation 154
- 6 | Warsaw Strikes 180
- 7 | The Scramble for Canada 200
- 8 | Canada — A Home at Last 224
- Notes 244
- Bibliography 276
- OF RELATED INTEREST 280
