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The Matryoshka memoirs : a story of Ukrainian forced labour, the Leica camera factory, and Nazi resistance

The Matryoshka memoirs : a story of Ukrainian forced labour, the Leica camera factory, and Nazi resistance

Book 2023

"A granddaughter explores the story of her Ukrainian grandmother's survival of Hitler's forced labor camps. Irina Nikifortchuk was 19 years old and a Ukrainian schoolteacher when she was abducted to be a forced laborer in the Leica camera factory in Nazi Germany. Eventually pulled from the camp hospital to work as a domestic in the Leica owners' household, Irina survived the war and eventually found her way to Canada. Decades later Sasha Colby, I...