A collection of oral history, photography and written stories examining the unique experience of Polish expats is to open in\u00a0Worcester.<\/p>\n
The project \u2018From Exile to Freedom\u2019 is created by Polish Expats Association<\/a> in Birmingham and is funded by the Heritage Lottery Fund.<\/p>\n Tomasz Piotrowski, MIRA Project Coordinator for Worcestershire said \u201cThe exhibition portrays the new wave of Polish arrivals to the UK after the enlargement of the European Union in 2004.<\/p>\n “It also provides the historical context of previous Polish migrations to the British Isles with a special focus on the West Midlands region.\u201d<\/p>\n The stories of young and old generations of Poles have been collected in order to present their experiences and socio-political context connected with their arrival to the new country.<\/p>\n The organisers have interviewed representatives of three different generations of emigrants: those who arrived to the Great Britain just after the Second World War, during the years of communist regime in Eastern Europe and those who arrived after 2004.<\/p>\n These stories give a unique insight into how the new community is being formed and the reasons of current and previous waves of Polish migrations to the UK.<\/p>\n \u2018From Exile to Freedom\u2019 is written by the migrants themselves and is dedicated to them.<\/p>\n To gather these stories Polish Expats Association have been working with a group of young volunteers, who conducted interviews with members of the Polish community.<\/p>\n The project also portrays the process of community integration and sheds light on the rich and positive history of Polish presence in the UK.<\/p>\n The collected stories, photographic evidence and recorded interviews can be seen free of charge at the exhibition which is going to be shown at the Worcester Commandery<\/a> from 15th Oct until 11th Nov or for more information visit www.fromexiletofreedom.org.uk<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A collection of oral history, photography and written stories examining the unique experience of Polish expats is to open in Worcester.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":90,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[9624,9909,9911,6506,180,5112,9908,9917,9916,9907,5513,9912,9913,9910,9914,9915,9918,163,9905,9906],"class_list":["post-4313","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-people","tag-british-isles","tag-communist-regime","tag-community-integration","tag-eastern-europe","tag-heritage-lottery-fund","tag-historical-context","tag-history-photography","tag-migrants","tag-migrations","tag-mira-project","tag-organisers","tag-photographic-evidence","tag-piotrowski","tag-polish-community","tag-political-context","tag-project-coordinator","tag-project-exile","tag-second-world-war","tag-west-midlands-region","tag-worcester-commandery","entry"],"featured_image_src":null,"featured_image_src_square":null,"author_info":{"display_name":"admin","author_link":"https:\/\/www.heritageandhistory.com\/contents1a\/author\/admin-2\/"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.heritageandhistory.com\/contents1a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4313","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.heritageandhistory.com\/contents1a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.heritageandhistory.com\/contents1a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heritageandhistory.com\/contents1a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/90"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heritageandhistory.com\/contents1a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4313"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.heritageandhistory.com\/contents1a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4313\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4315,"href":"https:\/\/www.heritageandhistory.com\/contents1a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4313\/revisions\/4315"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.heritageandhistory.com\/contents1a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heritageandhistory.com\/contents1a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4313"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heritageandhistory.com\/contents1a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}