{"id":11126,"date":"2026-09-21T16:53:53","date_gmt":"2026-09-21T16:53:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/?p=11126"},"modified":"2026-09-21T16:58:37","modified_gmt":"2026-09-21T16:58:37","slug":"internment-kidnapped-at-bloor-west","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/internment-kidnapped-at-bloor-west\/","title":{"rendered":"Internment & Kidnapped at Bloor West"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

I did two presentations yesterday at the Bloor West Ukrainian Festival yesterday. The first was with Ryan Boyko for his podcast series on WWI internment in Canada. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I got to listen to James Motluk’s interview as it was scheduled right before mine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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James is a documentary filmmaker, and his documentary, Jajo’s Secret, uncovering his own grandfather’s internment is stunning.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Borys Sydoruk, James Motluk, me, Ryan Boyko<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

I also got to meet up with my internment buddy, Borys Sydoruk, who has been in the forefront of internment recognition. During my interview, I spoke about my grandfather’s internment, and how that inspired three of my books.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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My second presentation was about my Kidnapped from Ukraine trilogy and how these novels can create empathy and understanding about Russia’s war on Ukraine in a way that other media cannot. Thank you, Borys, for taking these photos of this talk!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Marianne Fedunkiw, who also writes on Ukrainian topics, came out to listen. Thanks for the pic, Marianne!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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I did two presentations yesterday at the Bloor West Ukrainian Festival yesterday. The first was with Ryan Boyko for his podcast series on WWI internment in Canada. I got to listen to James Motluk’s interview as it was scheduled right before mine. James is a documentary filmmaker, and his documentary, Jajo’s Secret, uncovering his own … Continue reading “Internment & Kidnapped at Bloor West”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[262],"tags":[972,223,894,353,7,863],"class_list":["post-11126","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-stories","tag-bloor-west-ukrainian-festival","tag-internment","tag-kidnapped-from-ukraie","tag-scholastic","tag-ukrainian","tag-under-attack"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11126","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11126"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11126\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11138,"href":"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11126\/revisions\/11138"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11126"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11126"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11126"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}