polish americans

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polish americans

The hundred dresses

1973
In winning a medal she is no longer there to receive, a tight-lipped little Polish girl teaches her classmates a lesson.

The Polish Americans

1992
Discusses in text and photographs the history, culture, and religion of the Poles, factors encouraging their emigration, and their acceptance as an ethnic group in North America.

An Ellis Island Christmas

2005
Having left Poland and braved the ocean storms to join her father in America, Krysia arrives at Ellis Island on Christmas Eve.

Rodzina

2005
A twelve-year-old Polish American girl is boarded onto an orphan train in Chicago with fears about traveling to the West and a life of unpaid slavery.

The Polish Americans

1988
Discusses the history, culture, and religion of the Poles, actors encouraging their emigration, and their acceptance as an ethnic group in North America.

A student's guide to Polish American genealogy

1996
Presents instructions and resources for tracing Polish-American roots, and includes information about history and immigration as well as different methods of collecting data.

In the beginning

1997
David Lurie, a young Jewish boy growing up in the Bronx in the years leading up to World War II, learns to deal with the challenges of neighborhood bullies and his own frail health, which gives him the courage to follow his own personal path of belief in spite of opposition.

The Poles in America

1969
A history of the Poles in the New World from the settlement of Jamestown through their participation in various wars to their present day contribution to American life.

The Polish Americans

2004
Reviews the reasons why millions of Poles have immigrated to America, what their passage was like, the kind of jobs most found, communities they formed, and the discrimination they faced.

The hundred dresses

1972
In winning a medal she is no longer there to receive, a tight-lipped little Polish girl teaches her classmates a lesson.

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