Combining original footage, interviews and dramatic re-enactments, this film accompanies 3 Canadians as they return to Europe to relive their wartime experiences. Recalls the Warsaw uprising, the Normandy campaign and the liberation of the Oberlangen concentration camp. Chronicles the shared military history of Canada and Poland, and gives voice to the many Polish women, especially resistance fighter, Krystyna Wituska, who served in the underground.
"Combining original footage, interviews and dramatic re-enactments, this film accompanies 3 Canadians as they return to Europe to relive their wartime experiences. Recalls the Warsaw uprising, the Normandy campaign and the liberation of the Oberlangen concentration camp. Chronicles the shared military history of Canada and Poland, and gives voice to the many Polish women, especially resistance fighter, Krystyna Wituska, who served in the underground."@en
"Three Canadians return to Europe to relive their wartime experience: veteran Canadian officer Pierre Sevigny, who received Poland's highest military decoration; Michael Gutowski, a Polish cavalry officer who went on to found Canada's Olympic equestrian team, and Irena Bellert, a member of the Polish underground and today a linguistics professor at McGill University. They recall the Warsaw uprising, the Normandy campaign and the liberation of the Oberlangen concentration camp. Uses archival footage, interviews and reenactments to recall the shared military history of Canada and Poland."
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Guerre mondiale, 1939-1945 Récits personnels canadiens.
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