The Testimony by Halina Wagowska

Author:Halina Wagowska
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Hardie Grant Books
Published: 2012-09-20T04:00:00+00:00

THE BOAT

On 30 August 1948, at the port of Marseilles, I was one of a group of refugees and war orphans who boarded a ship bound for Australia.

I had decided that, after six years of genocidal persecution, I did not want to remain a victim, and that perhaps my patriotism to Poland was misguided. The Cold War had intensified at that time, which was another factor in my decision to leave, in spite of my support for socialism. By then it had also become painfully clear that my father must have perished.

I had met a group of people in the refugee register offices of the Red Cross and UNRRA who were also looking for surviving relatives, and they became friends. They too were considering emigrating. There were sponsors in Sweden, Canada and Australia. One particular friend, a boy whom I later married, had a distant relative in Australia, so we chose to go there.

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