Voices of the Left Behind
Subtitle: Project Roots and the Canadian War Children of World War II
Publisher: Dundurn Press
Published: February 25, 2006
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 216
ISBN-13: 9781550025859
Subjects: True stories: Second World War; World history: Second World War; Second World War, 1939-1945; History; History - General History; History: World; Canada; Canada - General; History / Canada; Biography; Children; Children of military personnel; Illegitimate children; Netherlands; World War, 1939-1945
Description: "Voices of the Left Behind contains the personal stories of nearly 50 Canadian war children who have been helped by Project Roots. It is filled with fascinating archival images and documents as well as original wartime correspondence between the mothers, the Canadian fathers, the Department of National Defence, Veterans Affairs, and other Canadian institutions. Letters from the war children to the Military Personnel Records Unit of the National Archives of Canada illustrate the historic pattern of denial. What these institutions all have in common is their consistent refusal to help war children find their Canadian fathers.

Introductory essays frame the subject and give a historical context to the tragic situations these women and their children found themselves in."--Jacket.