Passage Through Turbulent Times : Jesmond Publishing : 9780969545323 : 0969545320 : 07 May 2024 : This is the story of the long life of someone who became a seven-year-old war refugee when the Nazis invaded Poland in September 1939. His father managed to escape with him just ahead of the invaders and their Soviet partners-in-crime, but he lost his mother and his country. A ten-year-long odyssey followed, involving eight countries on three continents; several schools, languages, and adventures, including an intercontinental escape from a boarding school; and observations of different cultures and environments. In 1949 he arrived in Canada by himself from Africa as a seventeen-year-old with one outfit of tropical clothes, ten dollars in his pocket, and a fragmented education. After the government-required one year on a farm, he moved to Toronto, where thanks to the opportunities offered by Canada he worked his way up the ladder to wind up with two degrees, his own urban planning pract