TY - JOUR
TI - 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
AU - Kartasiński, Kamil
TI - 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
AB - 
	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.
VL - 2019
IS - Numer 146 (3)
PY - 2019
SN - 0083-4351
C1 - 2084-4069
SP - 549
EP - 563
DO - 10.4467/20844069PH.19.031.10385
UR - https://ejournals.eu/czasopismo/prace-historyczne/artykul/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
KW - Oral history
KW - Polish Armed Forces in the West
KW - emigration