We don't become refugees by choice : Mia Truskier, survival, and activism from occupied Poland to California, 1920-2014 / Teresa A. Meade.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Meade, Teresa A., 1948- author.

Series:

Palgrave studies in oral history

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Truskier, Mia.

World War, 1939-1945--Refugees--Poland.

World War, 1939-1945.

Refugees--California--San Francisco Bay Area.

Refugees.

Social work with refugees--California--San Francisco Bay Area.

Social work with refugees.

California--San Francisco Bay Area.

Poland.

Genre:

Personal narratives.

Physical Description:

xxiii, 270 pages : illustrations, map, genealogical tables ; 22 cm.

Other Title:

We do not become refugees by choice

Place of Publication:

Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, [2021]

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: 1. Mia Truskier: The "Oldest Refugee"

From Survival to Activism

Who Was Mia Truskier?

Meeting Mia

From Memory to Storyworld

A World of Refugees

The Work of Rescue and Asylum

Polishness and Jewishness

The Memories and Identities of Mia's Storyworld

Postwar Poland in the Shadow of the Holocaust

Looking Beyond a Moment to the Full History of a People

Remembering the Jews of Poland

The Memories War Creates

Life as an Immigrant in America

The Scope and Sequence of Events in this Book

2. The Making of Mia's World: Warsaw and Zurich, 1890-1939

Mia's Father: The Tlusty Family Line

A Jewish Country Squire

Polish Patriotism

Mia's Mother: The Szurek Family Line

An Unfaithful and Domineering Grandfather Wiadzio

Babcia Anja Szurek

The Carefree Life of a Teenager

High School and Preparing for a Career

Zionism and Judaism

Anti-Semitism

Switzerland and the Federal Institute of Technology

Meeting Jan Truskier

The Truskier Family

Summer of 1938 and the End of Innocence

3. Fleeing Poland, 1939

1940

Summer 1939: Europe on the Brink of War

Warsaw: The First Months of Bombing and Occupation

Deciding to Leave Poland: The Swiss Option

An "Emergency Conversion"

Leaving Poland on a "No Good" Bulgarian Visa

A Chance Encounter on the Train

Italy: An "Informational Pandemonium"

A Vatican Visa for Brazil

"Stuck in Italy"

4. Hiding in Plain Sight: Italy, 1940

1945

Building a Life in Rome

In Search of Residency Permits

Anti-Semitism and Italian Fascism

Christmas Creches and Paper Creations

Art and Diplomacy in the Vatican

Operating Undercover in Vatican City

The Movies and Work at Cinecitta

The Ritmica Integrale Teaching Method

The End of Mussolini and Start of the German Occupation

Caring for a Baby in Wartime

The Incident in Via Rasella

5. The War Years in Warsaw and the Soviet Union, 1939

The War's Toll on Poland

Poland Under Occupation

Tadeusz and Zygmunt in the East

From Lwow to a Work Camp in the USSR, 1940

Wartime Communications from Warsaw to Milan to Rome and Back

News from the Soviet Work Camp

"The sadness here is without color"

Felling Trees, Enduring Cold, Fighting Lice, Surviving Boredom

Operation Barbarossa: Germany Invades the Soviet Union, 1941

6. Poland: In the Warsaw Ghetto and on the Aryan Side, 1939

Meeting the Albany, NY Truskier Families

Gabriela Truskier Sherer

The Lacheta Family

Paulina and Feliks on the Aryan Side

A World of Informers, Bribery, and Corruption

Paulina and Feliks: Taking Chances in the Underground

Eugenia Truskier's Testimony

The Ghetto Post Office: Judyta Truskier

The Judenrat and Jewish Police

The Last Days of the Ghetto

7. The Aftermath of War in Europe, 1945

1949

Poland

Abraham Lacheta

Mia and Jan in Postwar Rome

Finding a Place to Live in Rome

Ryszard Landau and Mya Tannenebaum in Postwar Europe

Separation, Relocation, and "Survivor's Guilt"

Leaving Italy and the Beloved Italians

8. Mia's American World: From Nebraska Immigrant to California Activist, 1949

1970

It Was Like Starting a New Life

Becoming Citizens

Southern California

The Unitarian Church and Political Activism

9. "Don't Give In, Don't Give Up!" Refugees and the East Bay Sanctuary Covenant, 1968

2014

The Memorial Service

Encountering the Sanctuary Movement

EBSC Resident Artist

Pierre LaBossiere

Day-to-Day Advocacy for Refugees

Revisiting the Sixties Era: Personal and Political Impacts

Andor Skotnes

The War in Vietnam on the Home Front

Anh Tran

Andy Truskier and International Solidarity

A Mother Remembers

Final Thoughts.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

ebook version :

ISBN:

9783030845247

3030845249

OCLC:

1264404633

Publisher Number:

99989446388