Jayne Persian

Mar 19, 2024 | onlinelibrary.wiley.com | Jayne Persian

Book Review The Humanitarians: Child War Refugees and Australian Humanitarianism in a Transnational World, 1919–1975. By Joy Damousi. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2022. pp. xiii + 347. $141.95 (HB) First published: 19 March 2024 No abstract is available for this article.

Jan 12, 2024 | dailybulletin.com.au | Jayne Persian

In the Canadian parliament last year, an outcry erupted after 98-year-old Ukrainian-Canadian Yaroslav Hunka was presented to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky as a hero of the second world war. It turned out Hunka had fought against the Allies as a voluntary member of the Nazi German Waffen-SS Galizien division. The incident was deeply embarrassing for Canada; Prime Minister Justin Trudeau was forced to publicly apologise.

Jan 7, 2024 | unisq.edu.au | Jayne Persian

5 min read 08 Jan 2024 Written by Jayne Persian, Associate Professor (History), University of Southern Queensland. The article has been republished from The Conversation under the Creative Commons license. Read the original article. In the Canadian parliament last year, an outcry erupted after 98-year-old Ukrainian-Canadian Yaroslav Hunka was presented to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky as a hero of the second world war.

Jan 4, 2024 | tolerance.ca | Jayne Persian

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Jan 4, 2024 | theconversation.com | Jayne Persian

In the Canadian parliament last year, an outcry erupted after 98-year-old Ukrainian-Canadian Yaroslav Hunka was presented to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky as a hero of the second world war. It turned out Hunka had fought against the Allies as a voluntary member of the Nazi German Waffen-SS Galizien division. The incident was deeply embarrassing for Canada; Prime Minister Justin Trudeau was forced to publicly apologise.