Author : Helen Chernoff Freeman
Publisher : FriesenPress
ISBN 13 : 1460223209
Total Pages : 221 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (62 download)
Book Synopsis Girl #85 by : Helen Chernoff Freeman
Download or read book Girl #85 written by Helen Chernoff Freeman and published by FriesenPress. This book was released on 2013-11-19 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Helen Chernoff was born into a Freedomite Doukhobor family in Oliver, British Columbia in 1947. Shortly after her eighth birthday Helen was taken from her family and held with other children of Freedomite Doukhobors in a residential dormitory in New Denver, B.C. as part of a government policy of forced assimilation. Told with drama, compassion, and humour, Girl #85 – A Doukhobor Childhood is the intensely moving account of Helen’s experience of this ordeal - one she describes as a living hell. Her powerful testimony provides an invaluable perspective on a little-known and deeply disturbing event in British Columbia’s recent history.