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Vom Banat
nach Kanada
German Version
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Back Cover translated text
In
the first part of this volume, the author describes life in a Banat-Swabian
village during and after the Second World War. As a
boy he witnessed the mobilization his father into the German army. After the
war, the Romania-Germans were disenfranchised, dispossessed and deported. His
mother died during forced labour in the USSR, while his father ended up in
Canada. With a grandmother as the only support, he studied electrical
engineering at the Technical University "Politehnica Timisoara" in Romania,
where he obtained his engineering degree.
The second part of the book deals with the migration of the author to join his
father in Canada, and his integration into the new environment. Among the many
initial difficulties he had to overcome were a different social order, a
different language and different customs. He joined the then largest Canadian
telecommunications company in Montreal, which later transferred him to its newly
established Research and Development subsidiary in Ottawa.
There he finally found the ideal job and started a
family. He worked with newly-developed semiconductor devices and the application
of software to telecommunication systems. Later he contributed to the
development of Canadian, American and international standards in his field. He
authored and co-authored more than twenty technical papers, and presented most
of them at international conferences.
Since his retirement in 2000, the author's focus is on family research and the
cultural tradition of his Danube-Swabian ancestors. He strives to make the
history and culture of their ancestors accessible to English-speaking
descendants of the Danube Swabians. Several of his translations and writings are
published at
dvhh.org and
dvhh.org/alexanderhausen.
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