Richard D. Colbert

Franciszka (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This is a story of a young woman, Franciszka, who came as a Polish immigrant to begin a new life in American. Events start with her story as a reflection, a family mystery, and tragedy which encompassed over 30 plus years. Now, after a hundred years, I believe this story mirrors what many families and immigrants faced in a 1920's society, as might face today. A family has split apart with a mother and her children suffering a tremendous personal loss. It is a journey of ups and downs that will ring just as true to the politics and pandemic evident we saw during the beginnings of 2020. I offer a story of my grandmother, in her person, with words she would need us to hear.

The hardships and horrors that immigrant women faced in the early 1900s are hard to imagine and rarely fully understood today. A family in crisis would expect charity services to step in to help release a working person from the burden of the family and to be able to recover from injuries and then seek work. What was once an everyday life would be gone, and no one might ask if wife and mother are OK. A question, "where are my children"? might receive no answers. Depression and gray days seemingly never end. The community believes this situation contributes to developing mental illness and requires care for self by others.

We explore hidden stories and look at the journeys which took a family into a new world. Each of Franciszka's children has now passed, and they could offer more accounts, but this reading is my grandmother's time of memories.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Richard D. Colbert
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. August 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9798201596750
• Artikelnr.: 62402946

Autorenporträt

Richard D. Colbert is an Educator, Genealogist, and Writer. He graduated with a degree in Sociology from Excelsior College in New York and completed his Master's Degree in Education at Boston University. He is currently a Secondary School teacher and educator in Washington State.

His research efforts included multiple weeks reviewing data from collections on-site at the Congressional Library and Pictorial Achieves in Washington D.C. The Franciszka story presents a blend of collected life struggles, a woman's internal desire for personal survival and her continual love of children.

Richard D. Colbert believes that learning never stops and life always has lessons to teach us, thus he has made family and sharing his passion.