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Part 02: Reasons for coming (RealPlayer version)

Thomas Lewandowski, 1939 - (prod., narr.)

Oakland Community College

Refugees -- Government policy -- Poland.

Russo-Japanese War, 1904-1905 -- Personal narratives, Polish.

Emigration and immigration -- Government policy -- Poland.

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Extracts from oral histories of Hamtramck, MI in the Albert J. Zak Memorial Library (Hamtramck), Detroit Public Library (Burton Collection), Hamtramck Historical Collection, Library of Michigan, Macomb County Library, Oakland Community College Libraries.

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Stephen A. Majewski, mayor (1926-28), attorney, school board trustee, justice of the peace (1922-26) and Peoples State Bank Board member and Mrs. Czeslawa Kopacki share how young Polish men came to the United States to escape military service in the armies of the enemies of a partitioned Poland.