LEADER 05014nam 22006855 450 001 9910510537203321 005 20230810173715.0 010 $a3-030-84525-7 024 7 $a10.1007/978-3-030-84525-4 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC6816707 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL6816707 035 $a(CKB)19935018100041 035 $a(OCoLC)1287136240 035 $a(DE-He213)978-3-030-84525-4 035 $a(EXLCZ)9919935018100041 100 $a20211126d2021 u| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aWe Don't Become Refugees by Choice $eMia Truskier, Survival, and Activism from Occupied Poland to California, 1920-2014 /$fby Teresa A. Meade 205 $a1st ed. 2021. 210 1$aCham :$cSpringer International Publishing :$cImprint: Palgrave Macmillan,$d2021. 215 $a1 online resource (286 pages) 225 1 $aPalgrave Studies in Oral History,$x2731-5681 311 08$aPrint version: Meade, Teresa A. We Don't Become Refugees by Choice Cham : Springer International Publishing AG,c2021 9783030845247 327 $a1. 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. 330 $a?A riveting biography of an unstoppable woman that takes us from Warsaw through Italy to settle in California, where she was a Sanctuary activist until her death at 93.? ?Linda Gordon, Florence Kelley Professor of History, New York University, USA ?Meade vividly weaves together the personal and the political, and memory and history, in this gripping page-turner about Mia Truskier?s remarkable life and the global twentieth century.? ?Aviva Chomsky, Salem State University, USA "One of the joys of first-person testimony is the uncovering of the many layers of history and the historical narrative. Meade's conversations with Mia Truskier reveal the complexity of individual identity within a larger group. This is a life story drawn from testimony and the voice of the past -- thoughtful and imaginative." ?Ronald J. Grele, Former Director, Columbia University Oral History Research Office, US 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 drew on memories of her life in Europe and World War II, she was situating and constructing those memories while re-reading and discovering these artifacts alongside the author of this book, and ultimately relating the ways that she and her family years later sought to make a difference for other refugees, drawing a connection between two major eras of human displacement: the end of World War II and today. Teresa Meade is the Florence B. Sherwood Professor of History and Culture at Union College in Schenectady, NY, USA. 410 0$aPalgrave Studies in Oral History,$x2731-5681 606 $aOral history 606 $aWorld War, 1939-1945 606 $aEurope, Central$xHistory 606 $aAmerica$xHistory 606 $aWorld history 606 $aOral History 606 $aHistory of World War II and the Holocaust 606 $aHistory of Germany and Central Europe 606 $aHistory of the Americas 606 $aWorld History, Global and Transnational History 615 0$aOral history. 615 0$aWorld War, 1939-1945. 615 0$aEurope, Central$xHistory. 615 0$aAmerica$xHistory. 615 0$aWorld history. 615 14$aOral History. 615 24$aHistory of World War II and the Holocaust. 615 24$aHistory of Germany and Central Europe. 615 24$aHistory of the Americas. 615 24$aWorld History, Global and Transnational History. 676 $a362.87 676 $a305.906914092 700 $aMeade$b Teresa A.$f1948-$0900147 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910510537203321 996 $aWe don't become refugees by choice$92905565 997 $aUNINA