Jennie Tschoban
Works by Jennie Tschoban:
From an article in the Coast Reporter by Bronwyn Beairsto, Editor, Mar 7, 2022, 8:10 PM, "Gibsons’ Jennie Tschoban was four years old when she and her family fled their Ukrainian hometown into the Carpathian mountains to evade the Russian advance in 1944. They hid in the mountains for weeks – the child asking to go home when she realized this wasn’t camping.
The family of six kids and two parents eventually went by train through Austria to Germany. By then it was winter and they stayed in displaced persons camps. They stayed in Germany – Tschoban’s parents and sisters working in factories, eventually earning enough to pay passage to Canada in 1949. They landed at Pier 21 in Halifax February 23, 1949. Seventy-three years, nearly to the day, after her arrival in Canada, Tschoban watched coverage of Russia invading Ukraine."
She participated in the Sunshine Coast Writers and Editors Society's Art & Words Festival in 2022, and 2023.