Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• IHOR STEBELSKY
• Lubomyr Luciuk
• Stella Hryniuk

Titel

The Resettlement of Ukrainian Refugees in Canada after the Second World War

Ist Teil von

• Canada's Ukrainians, 1991, p.123

Ort / Verlag

University of Toronto Press

Erscheinungsjahr

1991

Link zum Volltext

Quelle

Alma/SFX Local Collection

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Post-war refugees comprised the third and most recent wave of Ukrainian immigration to Canada.¹ The previous two groups had consisted chiefly of economic immigrants from Western Ukraine (Austria-Hungary before the First World War and Poland, Czechoslovakia, and Romania between the wars). By contrast, the post-war refugees, who were part of the 2.5 to 3 million Ukrainians who found themselves in war-torn Germany in 1945, came from all parts of Ukraine.² Among them were young people who had been pressed to work in the German military-industrial complex, prisoners of war who had served in the Polish and Soviet armies, nationalists who