in 1943 my mother Maria Goossen with her six children fled Ukraine. They eventually were able to emigrate to Canada where they began a new life in Yarrow, BC. John Goossen, Maria's husband and my father, was forcibly separated from his young family during World War Two. He was captured, imprisoned, then released many years later. In 1967 John was reunited with his wife, children, and grandchildren in Vancouver, BC, where he lived out his life.. A Goossen Family Journey is a personal memoire of that time.
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Kay Goossen Redden was born in 1936 in Ukraine. As a child of 7 years of age, she emigrated with her mother and siblings to Canada in 1947. Kay became a nurse, married, has two children, and lives with her husband in Quesnel, BC. She is the last surviving member of her immediate family.
