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Audio Recording Interview with Konstanty and Collette Siemaczko in their home, Chicago, Illinois, part 2

Interview with Konstanty and Collette Siemaczko in their home, Chicago, Illinois, part 2

About this Item

Title

  • Interview with Konstanty and Collette Siemaczko in their home, Chicago, Illinois, part 2

Names

  • Kalčik, Susan J. (Collector)
  • Siemaczko, Kanstanti (Interviewee)
  • Siemaczko, Colette (Interviewee)

Created / Published

  • Chicago, Illinois, June 3, 1977

Headings

  • -  Polish Americans
  • -  Ethnography
  • -  Interviews
  • -  Illinois -- Chicago

Genre

  • Ethnography
  • Interviews

Notes

  • -  Kanstanti & Colette Siemaczko, part 2
  • -  Part 2 of a 5-part interview with Collette and Konstanty (Konstanti) Siemaczko in their home; Konstanty Siemaczko is a well-known choreographer for several Polish American youth dance groups; continuation of biographical account from part 1; Konstanty Siemaczko wanted to come to America because the philosophy of the American government is very similar to that of the Polish government that existed between the wars, the Polish constitution was based on the American model and was very similar; Konstanty Siemaczko always felt like a foreigner in England no matter what and, although he liked England, he had had enough of this attitude; he asks rhetorically, "Who is American?” and says that Americans are everybody who are in America, "I want to be there where I am not foreigner"; Konstanty Siemaczko spent 10 years in London and met his wife Colette (Collette Elsie McAllister, born in UK) there, about the time they were married a lost cousin was found to be in Chicago, this cousin met a friend of Siemaczko at a ball and found out that he was in London, they wrote and the Siemaczkos came to the U.S. in 1959 under the British quota which meant they had no problems getting in; there is additional content in this part of the recording, not summarized here.

Medium

  • audiocassette, C-60

Call Number/Physical Location

  • MBRS Shelflist: RYA 0789
  • Field Project Identifier: CH77-T266-C
  • Call number: AFC 1981/004: AFS 20791b

Source Collection

  • Chicago Ethnic Arts Project collection (AFC 1981/004)

Repository

  • American Folklife Center

Digital Id

Online Format

  • audio

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Credit line: Chicago Ethnic Arts Project collection (AFC 1981/004), American Folklife Center, Library of Congress

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Chicago citation style:

KalčIk, Susan J, Kanstanti Siemaczko, and Colette Siemaczko. Interview with Konstanty and Collette Siemaczko in their home, Chicago, Illinois, part 2. Chicago, Illinois, June 3, 1977. Audio. https://www.loc.gov/item/afc1981004_afs20791b/.

APA citation style:

KalčIk, S. J., Siemaczko, K. & Siemaczko, C. (1977) Interview with Konstanty and Collette Siemaczko in their home, Chicago, Illinois, part 2. Chicago, Illinois, June 3. [Audio] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/afc1981004_afs20791b/.

MLA citation style:

KalčIk, Susan J, Kanstanti Siemaczko, and Colette Siemaczko. Interview with Konstanty and Collette Siemaczko in their home, Chicago, Illinois, part 2. Chicago, Illinois, June 3, 1977. Audio. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/afc1981004_afs20791b/>.