Interview with Anna Aleski, June 7, 1982
Project: I Remember When: Times Gone But Not Forgotten Oral History Project
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Anna Aleski (born circa 1902) emigrated from Poland to Wilkes Barre, Pennsylvania and eventually moved with her brother to Philadelphia. She recalls in this 1982 interview details from her work life as a teenager, her family life as she raised eight children in the predominantly Polish neighborhood of Port Richmond, and struggles of living in poverty and assimilating into American culture.Interview Accession
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Aleski, Anna Interview by Judy Levin. 07 Jun. 1982. Lexington, KY: Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History, University of Kentucky Libraries.
Aleski, A. (1982, June 07). Interview by J. Levin. I Remember When: Times Gone But Not Forgotten Oral History Project. Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History, University of Kentucky Libraries, Lexington.
Aleski, Anna, interview by Judy Levin. June 07, 1982, I Remember When: Times Gone But Not Forgotten Oral History Project, Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History, University of Kentucky Libraries.
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