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Halina St James
Jul 123 min read
The man who rarely smiled
For more than 70 years, I had no idea of what my father looked like. My mother cut him out of every photograph she had, after she bundled...
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Halina St James
Jun 262 min read
The unintended history lesson
"This is like being in history class." That is what my friend Peter Chapman’s daughter, Georgia, told me at dinner with her parents and...
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Halina St James
Jun 103 min read
A revelation in a 70 year-old letter
In Poland, I danced with the man who gave me the most precious gift of all - pictures of my birth father, Stanislaw Zebrowski, and three...
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