Online Learning

Virtual Program: Poles in Jamestown Colony, 1619

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Presented by:
Raymond Glembocki
President

American Council for Polish Culture (ACPC)
on Wednesday, May 31st, 2023
6:00 p.m. (CDT)

In 1608, Polish master craftsmen arrived in Jamestown to help establish industries and
businesses in the new British Colony. However, Poles were not granted the same freedom as
their fellow Englishmen which led to the first Polish Suffrage movement.

Surviving Genocide: Personal Recollections from the Dual Invasion of Poland in World War II

Donna Chmara

Presented by:
Donna Chmara
In Honor of Holocaust Remembrance Day


Donna Chmara describes the loss of her home in Eastern Europe during World War II, her
family’s deportation to a Nazi labor camp, and their eventual arrival in the United States. Relying
on historic sources, interviews with twenty survivors and personal experience, she focuses on the
danger of identifying solely with a group or ideology rather than with the fact of our shared
humanity.