Christine Przybyła-Long, “And she helped four thousand people become citizens of the United States”

• Authors: Joanna Wojdon

Title variants

Christine Przybyła-Long, “And she helped four thousand people become citizens of the United States”

• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

PL

Christine Przybyła-Long is one of the 9 milion Americans of Polish origins living in the United States. Her descendatns came to Chicago during the mass migration from the turn of 20th century and she was born there in 1931. In her account Christine Przybyła-Long tells about her childhood and a life of a family belonging to the “Old Polonia”. She gives a lot of attention to the situation of Poles who migrated to the United States after WWII and to her own political involvement into Polish American affairs after 1990, that was crucial in the case of granting four thousand people american visas.

Keywords

EN

United States of America; Polish Americans; WWI; WWII; immigration; Chicago; Polish American Congress

PL

Stany Zjednoczone Ameryki; Polonia amerykańska; I wojna światowa; II wojna światowa; Chicago; Kongres Polonii Amerykańskiej; Stany Zjednoczone Ameryki; Polonia amerykańska; I wojna światowa; II wojna światowa; Chicago; Kongres Polonii Amerykańskiej

• Publisher: Ośrodek „Pamięć i Przyszłość”
• Journal: Wrocławski Rocznik Historii Mówionej
• Year: 2016
• Volume: 6
• Pages: 133-158

Dates

published

2016-10-30

Contributors

author

Joanna Wojdon

• Instytut Historyczny, Uniwersytet Wrocławski, Polska

Identifiers

DOI

10.26774/wrhm.154