[BCMA] Book Launch at the Agassiz Harrison Museum

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Girl # 85, A Doukhobor Childhood

Helen Chernoff was born into a Freedomite Doukhobor family in Oliver,
British Columbia in 1947. Shortly after her eighth birthday Helen was taken
from her family and held with other children of Freedomite Doukhobors in a
residential dormitory in New Denver, B.C. as part of a government policy of
forced assimilation. 

Told with drama, compassion, and humour, Girl #85 - A Doukhobor Childhood is
the intensely moving account of Helen's experience of this ordeal - one she
describes as a living hell. Her powerful testimony provides an invaluable
perspective on "a little-known and deeply disturbing event in British
Columbia's recent history.

Helen makes her home in Agassiz, BC.  Having traveled to Agassiz in the
early 1960's as part of a protest and to be close to Doukhobor Prisoners
placed in Agassiz Mountain Prison.  

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Helen Chernoff Freeman photo

 

 

 

 

 

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