Remembering...Years of Hiding Behind Silence - Meiners-Detroy, Christa
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Christa Meniers-DeTroy wrote the stories contained in Remembering...Years of Hiding Behind Silence over ten years. Yet, her story started in 1947 when she moved to Brunswick to be a part of the Bowdoin community surrounding her husband and other World War II military veterans working on their degrees using the GI Bill's educational benefits. In the U.S., Christa marched for civil rights, for peace, and for justice. Growing up in Hitler's Germany, she knew what it was to be hampered by a government full of injustice and cruelty. Here in her adopted country, Meiners-DeTroy blossomed and reared…mehr

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Christa Meniers-DeTroy wrote the stories contained in Remembering...Years of Hiding Behind Silence over ten years. Yet, her story started in 1947 when she moved to Brunswick to be a part of the Bowdoin community surrounding her husband and other World War II military veterans working on their degrees using the GI Bill's educational benefits. In the U.S., Christa marched for civil rights, for peace, and for justice. Growing up in Hitler's Germany, she knew what it was to be hampered by a government full of injustice and cruelty. Here in her adopted country, Meiners-DeTroy blossomed and reared her seven children to be independent thinkers in the vein of their maternal grandmother. In 2001, during her commencement speech at Bowdoin College, where she earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in German studies at seventy-two, Meiners-Detroy urged her fellow graduates to "contribute your learning and who you are to achieve equality and justice among your neighbors and people everywhere." Meiners-DeTroy has done just that her entire adult life. Read this special collection of her memories.
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Growing up in Nazi Germany, DeTroy learned in a painful way that if you do not speak up about injustices right away, there would come a time when you could not speak out against them. Arriving in the U.S. as a young war bride in the late 1940s, she determined that never again would she remain silent in the face of injustice. She became an outspoken advocate for peace and justice because she believes the saying, "No peace without justice, no justice without peace."DeTroy has been very active in the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom for over 60 years; she's participated in civil rights demonstrations in Chicago and anti-war demonstrations in Washington, D.C. She joined a local group in Brunswick, ME, Peace Works, and through them founded an annual Peace Fair in Brunswick that started in 2005 and continues today.