Children of Polish parents and grandparents who survived World War II terrors and came to America to find a new life swapped stories during the first “2nd Generationers Group” gathering Dec. 30 at the Polish Army Veterans’ Post on Fillmore Ave., Buffalo.
Organizer Andrew Golebiowski said, “Buffalo has been home to Polish immigrants for over 150 years. Waves of Polish people built the East Side and Black Rock around the turn of the 20th century. There was a later, smaller wave of people who started arriving in the late 1940s and 1950s. These were mostly survivors of Nazi and Soviet labor and concentration camps who found refuge in the United States as Displaced Persons and immigrants. They built new lives quietly, rarely telling their stories of personal and family tragedies, while busy building new families.
