Please join the Kopernik Memorial Association on Sunday, September 22, 2019 from 1 PM to 3 PM for a presentation and book signing with author Sophie Hodorowicz-Knab at the Polish Community Club located at 810 Columbia St., Utica, NY.
Admission is Free.
Ms. Knab presents “Wearing the Letter P: Polish Women as Forced Laborers in Nazi Germany 1939-1945”
Ms. Knab was born in a displaced persons camp in Hanover Germany in 1948. Her parents were among the millions of Poles sent to Germany against their will to work as forced laborers during World War II. After the war her family moved to France for six years before emigrating to the US in 1954.
She describes her life as straddling the world of her parents as they had lived in Poland, learning the Polish language, with its customs and traditions, and the life of becoming an American. Always a prolific writer and reader she began publishing in Polish-American newspapers.
Her Books Include:
Polish Customs, Traditions, and Folklore
Wearing The P: Polish Women As Forced Laborers In Nazi Germany 1939-1945
and Available Now): Naznaczone Literą “P” is the Polish language version of Wearing the Letter P: Polish Women as Forced Laborers in Nazi Germany 1939-1945.
All of which can be purchased from Amazon, the Polish-American Journal Bookstore, and the Polish Art Center .
