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The Szuszkowski
Family:
A Polish
Immigrant Story
Bartlomiej
Szuszkowski
My wife Olga and I with
our daughter Marysia and
son Mikolaj
The
Patriarch
Mikolaj
Szuszkowski
First Arrived in America
1913 Ellis Island
First
Post-War
Elections
1947
My farm in Kozlow
Photo from the Yalta Conference: Winston S. Churchill,
Franklin D. Roosevelt and Joseph Stalin
German Invasion of Poland
September 1, 1939
Nazi Panzer Tank
My brother Jusek
Pustkow Labor Camp, Psymsyl
Between 1940 and 1944 The Nazis murdered –
15,000 people at Pustkow
5,000 Russian Prisoners of War
7,500 Jews
2,500 Poles
Pustkow Labor Camp, Psymsyl
The first prisoners arrived in 1940, mostly Polish
Jews. In 1941 the German forces built a second camp
for Russian prisoners of war, and in 1942 built a third
camp for Polish workers. In early August 1944 the
three camps were totally evacuated and destroyed,
with the survivors moved to other camps.
Plaszow labor camp
This slave labor camp near Kraków was headed by
Amon Goeth, a psychopathic killer. Of some 150,000
Jews who passed through its gates, about 80,000
perished.
My two new horses and
handmade horse buggy
House in Kozlow
(Photo taken in 1988 by Mikolaj)
Prudnik
Prezynka House
Prezynka Poland Circa 1949-50
Embassy Papers
S.S. America
April 2006 with our GreatGrandchildren
World War II
Learn about World War II from a relatives first hand account.
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Conduct an interview with a relative that experienced the War or lived during the
war.
Who is the person you interviewed who was involved in World War II?
How are they related to you?
What did they do during World War II?
What were their experiences during the war and their feelings about the war?
What did you learn about World War II from their experience?
Where (in what part of the world) did their story take place?
How did the interview and the story affect you?
Things you will need for your interview:
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A pen and paper.
A tape recorder or camcorder and enough tape for the interview.
Resources you will use:
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Internet search engines. (for research)
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Google
Yahoo
Ask Jeeves
Altavista
Lycos
Web sites:
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American Scrapbood website: http://tqjunior.thinkquest.org/4616/
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Library of Congress: www.loc.gov
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Ellis Island: www.ellisisland.org
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World War II history: http://www.historyplace.com
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World War II Factbook: http://www.skalman.nu/worldwar2/
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Navajo Code Talkers: http://www.history.navy.mil/faqs/faq61-2.htm
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Tuskeegee Airmen: http://www.ritesofpassage.org/mil_air.htm
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Concentration Camps: http://www.remember.org/camps/
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Women in the War:
http://www.stg.brown.edu/projects/WWII_Women/tocCS.html
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The Yalta Agreement:
http://campus.northpark.edu/history/WebChron/World/YaltaConf.html
Additional Resources
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Periodicals, books, newspapers from the
World War II era (in the resource area of the
library)
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Film Examples: “Shindler’s List”, “Memphis
Belle”, “Patton”, “Das Boot”, “PT-109”,
“The Tuskegee Airmen”, There are others but
they should be approved, by me.
Tying It All Together
You will provide as a product of your research maps
to show understanding of the geographic location you
are reporting on. Include in your research a particular
subject related to the war and its relevance or
consequences to your family and the world. How has
that historical event changed the world we live in
today? This should all be presented to the rest of the
class as if though you were the teacher. You can use
charts, graphs, photos, video-clips or a computer
presentation to aide in your lesson presentation.