Memories of Dziadka : rural life in the Kingdom of Poland 1880-1912 and immigration to America
(2014)
Nonfiction
Book
Call Numbers:
Local history/Genealogy/973.049185/SZABADOS,S
Availability
Details
PUBLISHED
[United States] : [publisher not identified], [2014]
©2014
©2014
DESCRIPTION
ii, 127 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm
ISBN/ISSN
9781500803094, 150080309X
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES
Farm land in Dmochy Poland -- The Zuchowski family and rural life -- Polish holidays and customs -- Reasons to emigrate -- Emigration and voyage -- Arrival in America -- Life in America -- Conclusion: what does it all mean -- Glossary
The author uses his grandfather's story to illustrate life in the rural areas of Poland at the end of the 19th and beginning of the 20th centuries, as well as the experience of emigrating from Poland to America at that time and the Polish immigrant's typical life in the United States in the first half of the 20th century