polish americans

Describes the conditions in Poland that led people to immigrate to the United States and what their daily lives are like in their new home.

In 1934, even though life is hard for Wanda Malinski and her family, she enjoys school, good times with her best friend, and a special relationship with her older brother.

Describes the conditions in Poland that led people to immigrate to the United States and what their daily lives are like in their new home.

Jozef, working to secretly infiltrate the gangs that have been victimizing the Polish-American community in Chicago in 1871, forms an unlikely friendship with Bridget, and finds himself scrambling to identify a killer when she is falsely arrested for murder.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.