Polish Veterans of the Polish Armed Forces in the West: Who Decided to Emigrate to the USA and Canada after World War II – an Oral History Perspective
Polish Veterans of the Polish Armed Forces in the West: Who Decided to Emigrate to the USA and Canada after World War II – an Oral History Perspective
Author(s): Kamil KartasińskiSubject(s): History
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego
Keywords: Oral history; Polish Armed Forces in the West; emigration
Summary/Abstract: The aim of this paper is to characterize the generation of Polish veterans of the Polish Armed Forces in the West, who emigrated to the USA and Canada after 1945 in an oral history perspective. The author, using interviews conducted with the veterans, tries to show the motives of emigration to the USA and Canada, the fi rst years of veterans’ life in exile and refl ection that accompanies veterans at the present time. The author of the article tries to recognize and capture the meanings contained in the veterans’ emigre stories,using the oral history workshop on the basis of the analyzed sources.
Journal: Prace Historyczne
- Issue Year: 146/2019
- Issue No: 3
- Page Range: 549-563
- Page Count: 15
- Language: English