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“НАШЕ ЖИТТЯ”, СІЧЕНЬ 2020 WWW. UNWLA.ORG 15 Stories about History The Works of Marsha Forchuk Skrypuch Marsha Forchuk Skrypuch is a Canadian author of Ukrainian heritage who writes novels about World War II from a Ukrainian young person’s perspective. Ms. Forchuk Skrypchuch was recently in the Chicago area ( one of several s tops on a multicity t our with Scholastic Book Fairs ) to coincide with the release of her most recent novel, Don’t Tell the Nazis , a book based on the true story of a Ukrainian child who hid three Jewish friends under her kitchen floor during the Nazi occup ation of her western Ukrainian town. W hile in the Ch icago area, the author visited e lementary, m iddle and j unior h igh schools throughout the region, speaking at two schools each day with audiences of up to 1 , 000 at a time. T he author, who does not speak Ukrainian , explains that her grandfather came to Canada before WWI and that he was interned as an “enemy alien” and lived with the shame of that label for the rest of his life. Her father and his siblings had “the Ukrainian be aten out of them” because of inter - war prejudice against Ukrainians in their largely English - speaking prairie community. H er father didn’t want his daughters to experience the prejudice he had endured for being of Ukrainian heritage , so he did not send the m to Ukrainian school or language class es. Ironically, this decision brought Marsha closer to her Ukrainian heritage. As a student at Western University in London Ontario, she attended local dances (z abavas ) and it was here that she met her future husband, Orest Skrypuch, the son of two Ukraini an DPs. Her college roommate Natalka was also the daughter of DPs, and so she was immersed in an environment that provided many stories about her ethnic heritage . And it was from this perspective that she became inter ested in the history that shaped her fa ther and other Ukrainians and in this milieu that she began writing books about Ukrainians and their experiences during WWII. Marsha Forchuk Skrypuch ’s f irst novel , Making Bombs for Hitler , tells the story of a Ukrai nian girl named Lida who is captured by the Nazis during WWII and forced into slavery . Her second novel, The War Below , tells the story of an escaped slave laborer who joins the Ukrainian Insurgent Army. A third novel, Stolen Girl , reveals another twist in the sordid history of Third Reich: the Lebensborn Program that targeted A ryan - looking Ukrainian and Polish children who were kidnapped by the Nazis and brainwashed into thinking they were German. The author of more than 20 books for young people, Ms. Forc huk Skrypchuch has recently completed Don’t Tell the Nazis , the first novel of her newest WWII trilogy . She has also written books on the Holodomor , the Canadian internment operations in WWI , the Armenian Genocide, and V ietnamese refugees . From the e ditors : See related article on page 32.
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