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02761aam a2200397 i 4500 001 7F25D102495811EE9228709642ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20230902011803 008 230501s2023 onc 000 0beng 020 $a 1770417354 020 $a 9781770417359 (softcover) 035 $a (OCoLC)1378019956 040 $a NLC $b eng $e rda $c NLC $d NLC $d BDX $d YDX $d OCLCF $d IOU $d SILO 042 $a lac 043 $a e-un--- $a e-un--- 050 04 $a D805.G3 $b C65 2023 082 0 $a 940.54/05 $2 23 100 1 $a Colby, Sasha, $d 1978- $e author. 245 14 $a The Matryoshka memoirs : $b a story of Ukrainian forced labour, the Leica camera factory, and Nazi resistance / $c Sasha Colby. 260 $a Toronto : $b ECW Press, $c 2023. 263 $a 202309 300 $a 246 pages ; $c 22 cm 520 $a "A granddaughter explores the story of her Ukrainian grandmother’s survival of Hitler's forced labor camps. Irina Nikifortchuk was 19 years old and a Ukrainian schoolteacher when she was abducted to be a forced laborer in the Leica camera factory in Nazi Germany. Eventually pulled from the camp hospital to work as a domestic in the Leica owners' household, Irina survived the war and eventually found her way to Canada. Decades later Sasha Colby, Irina's granddaughter, seeks out her grandmother's story over a series of summer visits and gradually begins to interweave the as-told-to story with historical research. As she delves deeper into the history of the Leica factory and World War II forced labor, she discovers the parallel story of Elsie KuÌhn-Leitz, Irina's rescuer and the factory heiress, later imprisoned and interrogated by the Gestapo on charges of âexcessive humanity.â This is creative nonfiction at its best as the mystery of Irina's life unspools skillfully and arrestingly. Despite the horrors that the story must tell, it is full of life, humor, food, and the joy of ordinary safety in Canada. The Matryoshka Memoirs takes us into a forgotten corner of history, weaving a rich and satisfying tapestry of survival and family ties and asking what we owe those who aid us."-- $c Provided by publisher. 530 $a Issued also in electronic format. 600 10 $a Nikifortchuk, Irina. 600 10 $a KuÌhn-Leitz, Elsie, $d 1903-1985. 650 0 $a Foreign workers, Ukrainian $z Germany $v Biography. 650 0 $a World War, 1939-1945 $x Women $z Germany $v Biography. 650 0 $a Ukrainians $z Germany $v Biography. 650 0 $a Women $z Germany $v Biography. 650 0 $a World War, 1939-1945 $x Conscript labor $z Germany. 655 7 $a Biographies. $2 lcgft 941 $a 2 952 $l TDPH826 $d 20240104010657.0 952 $l GBPF771 $d 20230902012421.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=7F25D102495811EE9228709642ECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search