We Don't Become Refugees by Choice : Mia Truskier, Survival, and Activism from Occupied Poland to California, 1920-2014

This book traces the life of Maria Mia Truskier, who fled the Nazis as a young Polish Jew in early 1940 and once safely resettled in the United States, became an activist for other refugees, earning renown in the Bay Area as "the oldest refugee" of the East Bay Sanctuary Covenant.

• | : Teresa A. Meade
• | Publisher: Springer Nature Switzerland AG
• | Publication Date: Nov 27, 2021
• | Country of Publication: Switzerland
• | Number of Pages: 270 pages
• | Language: Unknown
• | Binding: Hardback
• | ISBN-10: 3030845249
• | ISBN-13: 9783030845247