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“Grace’s Story:   A Polish Family’s Experience Under Nazi Fascism and Communism, 1939-1978”
                                               
THURSDAY JUNE  5
 
11:00 AM
 
NTRA Meeting Space
 
5118  Center Street

 

Join us this Thursday for a talk by Williamsburg resident Grace Konar.  Grace immigrated from Poland to the United States with her husband, Michael and young son in 1978.  She will share family memories of the impact of World War II on her family, the Magnusenwski’s, and her husband’s family, the Konarkowski’s.  

       

The war shattered Poland and both families.  During the German occupation of Poland, Grace’s mother and several of her siblings were sent as forced laborers to Germany, while Michael’s parents struggled to survive in concentration camps in Poland and Austria.  She will also share her memories of life as a child and young adult in post-war Communist Poland and her family’s immigration experience.