The Exile Mission. Anna D. Jaroszyńska-Kirchmann

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      The Exile Mission

      Ohio University Press Polish and Polish-American Studies Series

      Series Editor: John J. Bukowczyk, Wayne State University

      Framing the Polish Home: Postwar Cultural Constructions of Hearth, Nation, and Self, edited by Bożena Shallcross

      Traitors and True Poles: Narrating a Polish-American Identity, 1880–1939, by Karen Majewski

      Auschwitz, Poland, and the Politics of Commemoration, 1945–1979, by Jonathan Huener

      The Exile Mission: The Polish Political Diaspora and Polish-Americans, 1939–1956, by Anna D. Jaroszyńska-Kirchmann

      SERIES ADVISORY BOARD

      M. B. B. Biskupski, Central Connecticut State University

      Robert E. Blobaum, West Virginia University

      Anthony Bukoski, University of Wisconsin–Superior

      Bogdana Carpenter, University of Michigan

      Mary Patrice Erdmans, Central Connecticut State University

      Thomas S. Gladsky, Saint Mary’s College (ret.)

      Padraic Kenney, University of Colorado at Boulder

      John J. Kulczycki, University of Illinois at Chicago (ret.)

      Ewa Morawska, University of Essex

      Antony Polonsky, Brandeis University

      Brian Porter, University of Michigan

      James S. Pula, Purdue University North Central

      Thaddeus C. Radzilowski, Piast Institute

      Daniel Stone, University of Winnipeg

      Adam Walaszek, Jagiellonian University

      Theodore R. Weeks, Southern Illinois University

      The Exile Mission

       The Polish Political Diaspora and Polish Americans, 1939–1956

      Anna D. Jaroszyńska-Kirchmann

      OHIO UNIVERSITY PRESS

      ATHENS

      Ohio University Press, Athens, Ohio 45701

      © 2004 by Anna D. Jaroszyńska-Kirchmann

      Printed in the United States of America

      All rights reserved

      Ohio University Press books are printed on acid-free paper ™

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      Cover photograph: A group of Polish DPs on a train heading to Bremerhaven, Germany, to board a ship to the United States, 1950. Courtesy of Victor Bik

      Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

      Jaroszyńska-Kirchmann, Anna D.

      The exile mission : the Polish political diaspora and Polish Americans, 1939–1956 / Anna D. Jarozyńska-Kirchmann. — 1st ed.

      p. cm. — (Ohio University Press Polish and Polish-American studies series)

      Includes bibliographical references and index.

      ISBN 0-8214-1526-3 (cloth : alk. paper)

      1. Polish Americans—History—20th century. 2. Polish Americans—Cultural assimilation. 3. World War, 1939–1945—Refugees. 4. Refugees—Poland—History— 20th century. I. Title. II. Series.

      E184.P7J29 2004

      305.891'85073'09044—dc22

      2004006713

      ISBN 978-0-8214-1527-6 (e-book)

       Publication of books in the Polish and Polish-American Studies Series has been made possible in part by the generous support of the following organizations:

      Polish American Historical Association, New Britain, Connecticut

      Stanislaus A. Blejwas Endowed Chair in Polish and Polish American Studies, Central Connecticut State University, New Britain, Connecticut

      Madonna University, Livonia, Michigan

      The Polish Institute of Arts and Sciences of America, Inc., New York, New York

      The Piast Institute: An Institute for Polish and Polish American Affairs, Detroit, Michigan

       Additional support for this book has been provided by the Kulczycki Prize awarded by the Polish American Historical Association

      Contents

       List of Illustrations

       List of Tables

       Series Editor’s Preface

       Preface and Acknowledgments

       List of Abbreviations

       Guide to Pronunciation

       INTRODUCTION

       1. “Smoke over America, blood over Europe”: World War II and the Polish Diaspora

       2. “All I have left is my free song”: The Polish Community in the Displaced Persons Camps

       3. “Live a happy and peaceful life here”: The Resettlement of Polish Displaced Persons in the United States

       4. “So they are among brethren”: Debate in the Community

       5. “Ambassadors of our cause”: Turning Points

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