History
Our Polish Heritage
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My parents, Amiel Zak and Mary Anne Kelly, were married in Sacred Heart Church but agreed to raise their children in the Polish Roman Catholic Church, St. Joseph’s.
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My parents, Amiel Zak and Mary Anne Kelly, were married in Sacred Heart Church but agreed to raise their children in the Polish Roman Catholic Church, St. Joseph’s.
The Polish Heritage Society met for the first time on Oct. 24, 2006.
The purpose of the Polish Heritage Society is to collect and preserve physical items and intangibles that represent the values, culture, and traditions our ancestors brought from their homeland in the late 1890’s and early 1900’s.
The Veterans Memorial in the center of Suffield includes the names of at least twenty men of Polish descent who served in the United States Army during World War I. Some of those men were foreign-born Poles who had emigrated from the land that Austria, Germany, and Russia partitioned in 1795. Only a few had become American citizens by the time The Great War started.
The purpose of the Polish Heritage Society (PHS) is to collect, preserve and perpetuate the culture and history of our ancestors.
The United States recognizes Polish-American Heritage in October, so there is no better time for the Suffield Polish Heritage Society (PHS) to meet again.
The Polish Heritage Society (PHS) has been looking forward to resuming its monthly, first-Wednesday meetings for the first time in a year and a half.
The Polish Heritage Society invites everyone of Polish descent to march with us in the town’s 350th Anniversary Parade on Saturday, October 9.
In the early years of the Polish Heritage Society (PHS), many members wrote down the stories of their parent’s immigration to the United States. A strong supporter of the PHS, Bernice (Karakla) Sobinski, wrote her parents’ accounts in 2009, and Jim Turek interviewed her at a PHS meeting in September 2018.
This year our season ended unexpectedly with the March meeting after which group size was limited to five people and Suffield restricted access to town spaces.