Thursday November 8, 2012 7pm
Lecture / Seminar
paul.doerr@acadiau.ca
585-1504.
Mona Parsons - from Nova Scotia to Nazi Prison and Back
Mona Parsons was born in 1901 in Nova Scotia. She was an actress, nurse, and member of an informal resistance network in Holland from 1940 to 1941 during the Nazi-occupation. She became the only Canadian female civilian to be imprisoned by the Nazis, and one of the first—and few—women to be tried by a Nazi military tribunal in Holland. She lived and died in Wolfville. The headstone that marks her grave in Wolfville's Willowbank Cemetery remembers her only as "wife of..." her second husband, Major General Harry Foster. There is much more to her story.
To mark Remembrance Day in Acadia’s BAC 244, author Andria Hill-Lehr will be giving a free public talk about the life and times of Mona Parsons. Hill-Lehr is the author of Mona Parsons: From Privilege to Prison, from Nova Scotia to Nazi Europe, and has just completed a second edition of the book. Copies of the book will be available that night.
This presentation is sponsored by Acadia’s department of History and Classics. For more information, contact Dr. Paul Doerr at paul.doerr@acdiau.ca or phone 585-1504.
paul.doerr@acadiau.ca
585-1504.
Mona Parsons - from Nova Scotia to Nazi Prison and Back
Mona Parsons was born in 1901 in Nova Scotia. She was an actress, nurse, and member of an informal resistance network in Holland from 1940 to 1941 during the Nazi-occupation. She became the only Canadian female civilian to be imprisoned by the Nazis, and one of the first—and few—women to be tried by a Nazi military tribunal in Holland. She lived and died in Wolfville. The headstone that marks her grave in Wolfville's Willowbank Cemetery remembers her only as "wife of..." her second husband, Major General Harry Foster. There is much more to her story.
To mark Remembrance Day in Acadia’s BAC 244, author Andria Hill-Lehr will be giving a free public talk about the life and times of Mona Parsons. Hill-Lehr is the author of Mona Parsons: From Privilege to Prison, from Nova Scotia to Nazi Europe, and has just completed a second edition of the book. Copies of the book will be available that night.
This presentation is sponsored by Acadia’s department of History and Classics. For more information, contact Dr. Paul Doerr at paul.doerr@acdiau.ca or phone 585-1504.
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Pricing: Free
24 University Avenue
Wolfville, Nova Scotia
leanna.mcdonald@acadiau.ca
902-585-1140
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