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Автор: Melynda Jarratt
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       Nel’s Perseverence Paid Off!, by Olga Rains

       It Happened for a Reason, by Leona (Lorna) Tange

       I Had a Happy Reunion with My Father in Canada, by Simonne Gallis

       CHAPTER 3

       CHILDREN OF WAR BRIDES, by Melynda Jarratt

       Desperate to Get Me Back, by Richard Bond

       Who Was Clifford Harold Sims?, by Melynda Jarratt

       Back Home to England, by Olga Rains

       Husband in Jail, by Olga Rains

       I Thought He Was Going to Kill Me, by Olga Rains

       Really Desperate, by M.F.

       CHAPTER 4

       WAR CHILDREN WHO WERE ADOPTED, by Melynda Jarratt

       My Dad Was Killed in France, by Pamela Walker

       A Wonderful Surprise, by Irene Lynk

       Dear John, by Margaret Atkinson

       Foundling, by Melynda Jarratt

       Life Is So Different for Me Now, by Peter

       Still Looking, by Olga Rains

       You’re My Hero, by Melynda Jarratt

       CHAPTER 5

       NATIVE ROOTS, by Melynda Jarratt

       A Status Indian Living in Holland, by Olga Rains

       The Impact Has Been Enormous, by Melynda Jarratt

       He Was Ecstatic, by Joan Kramer-Potts

       Mungwash: A Poem, by Josephine Gee

       CHAPTER 6

       CHILDREN OF CANADIAN SERVICEWOMEN, by Melynda Jarratt

       Thelma Left Her Baby in England, by Olga Rains

       Double Standard, by Nano Pennefeather-McConnell

       Child of War: A Poem, by Nano Pennefather-McConnell

       CHAPTER 7

       THE CANADIANS IN OCCUPIED GERMANY, by Melynda Jarratt

       I Was Born in Germany, by Susanne Werth

       Like Winning a Lottery!, by Ron and Diane Matthews

       Who Knows Jim Thomson?, by Heiko Windels

       My Dad: A Poem, by Margaret

       CHAPTER 8

       BY VIRTUE OF HIS SERVICE, by Melynda Jarratt

       APPENDIX: CORRESPONDENCE

       Letter from Louis Burwell, January 1, 1941

       Letter from Guildford Rural District Council, Billeting Department, March 22, 1943

       Letter from Immigration Branch, Department of Mines and Resources, London, England, to Miss Maria Franzen, Klies, Birkenfeld, Germany, November 8, 1946

       Letter from Immigration Branch, Department of Mines and Resources, London, to Miss Maria Franzen, March 3, 1947

       Letter from Immigration Branch, Department of Mines and Resources, London, to Miss Maria Franzen, May 21, 1947

       Letter from Immigration Branch, Department of Mines and Resources, Regina, Saskatchewan, to MacIain MacGregor of Saskatchewan, October 16, 1947

       Letter from Department of Veterans Affairs, Ottawa, to Mrs. Scholten of The Netherlands, September 26, 1956

       Letter from lawyer JMR, Fredericton, New Brunswick, to Lloyd and Olga Rains, January 18, 1991

       Letter from Lloyd and Olga Rains to lawyer JMR, January 28, 1991

       Letter from Mr. Mackie, lawyer, Ottawa, to Linda Tucker, July 9, 1991

       Letter from Olga Rains to lawyer Mark Sloan, Halifax, April 22, 1992

       Letter from Personnel Records Unit, National Archives of Canada, Ottawa, to Mr. Van Driest of The Netherlands, January 7, 1993

       Letter from Research and Public Affairs Enquiries Officer, National Archives of Canada, to Donna Barkhouse of Winchester, Hants, England, November 20, 1994

       Letter from Personnel Records Unit, National Archives of Canada, to Carol Packard of Winchester, Hants, England, December 20, 1994

       Letter from Inquiries Officer, Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada, to Melynda Jarratt, May 7, 2001

       Letter from Personnel Records Unit, National Archives of Canada, to Olga Rains, November 25, 2003

       Letter from Syd Frost, Commanding Officer, Princess Patricia’s Canadian Light Infantry

       BIBLIOGRAPHY

       PHOTO CREDITS

       THE AUTHORS

       Acknowledgements

      Voices of the Left Behind is a unique mixture of personal narratives, oral histories, original photographs and documents that were gathered over the course of nearly twenty-five years by Olga and Lloyd Rains, founders of the Dutch-based Project Roots. Together with co-editor Melynda Jarratt in New Brunswick, Canada, the Rains worked via e-mail from their home in Haarlem, the Netherlands, for more than three years to bring these stories to life, choosing the stories, gathering the images and documents, getting permission from each participant, translating, editing, rewriting and sometimes rewriting a story again if necessary. This is truly a book that would not have been possible without the Internet.

      Each chapter contains an introductory essay that provides a social, cultural and historical context for the war-child story, from the experiences of war children in Britain, Holland, Belgium or Germany to the unique circumstances facing war children who were adopted at birth, whose fathers were Native Canadians, whose mothers were war brides, or whose mothers were Canadian servicewomen stationed overseas during the war. Using original sources