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Podcast: North Star with Ellin Bessner
Episode: ‘This flag has power’: Wartime Canadian flag recovered from Europe after 80 years
Description: Michael Levenston has long known about his father’s heroism in the Second World War. But he didn’t know his father dated a Dutch woman there, a nurse, who helped rescue downed Allied pilots—and he had no idea his father had gifted the Resistance member several personal keepsakes, including a battered Canadian flag, his army beret and a radio. The woman kept those artifacts until her death in 2014.
Having recently discovered his father’s wartime romantic past when he sorted through old wartime photos and letters, he felt suddenly compelled to repatriate the flag, especially after hearing U.S. Pre...