George Pesut

George Pesut was born in City Hospital in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, a product of a second marriage, both parents of Croatian descent. His birth parents met in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan after both had divorced their Croatian partners. His father, after being released after WW2 from the Esterwegen concentration camp, a brutal, Nazi-run prisoner of war facility, could not convince his then wife, to accompany him on moving to Canada to establish a new life. He then left her to begin anew as a Canadian, and settled in the province of Saskatchewan. Pesut\'s mother on the other hand, had originally married a man of Croatian heritage from Chicago, USA, and they had moved to Hanley, Saskatchewan. They divorced shortly after they were married, at which time Pesut\'s mother moved to the larger centre Saskatoon where more opportunity and jobs existed. His birth parents both had grown up in the Lika reg…