A couple of historically-connected speaking events coming up at this Toronto speaking series -- one involving me.
The first features actor RH Thomson talking about his remarkable global Remembrance Day projects and about his new memoir of his family and its many wartime losses. In person in Toronto, and free via Zoom.
And the second features Marsha Faubert discussing her book Wanda's War, about two young and unremarkable Polish people's hellish experiences during the Second World War and how they happened to survive and to come to postwar Canada, where they met and married -- and eventually became Marsha Faubert's mother- and father-in-law.
Wanda and Kazimierz (later "Casey") never really spoke about their wartime experiences, and Marsha's discoveries about that make for a remarkable piece of historical research and writing. I'll be interviewing Marsha about that story at Yorkminster Park in Toronto, and free via Zoom everywhere.
