Nah, that was way after WWII. And in Canada. No war here. It was more like one kid playing with matches and set the house on fire...
I have a crazy Polish friend named Ewa. She is the funniest person ever, and she's such a stereotype of a Catholic girl. Like once, we went to this fetish party in Torture Garden in London just for laughs and she ended up getting a corset piercing and did all sorts of other stuff she was completely terrified and ashamed about the next day.