Emigration and immigration--20th century
Subject
Subject Source: Local sources
Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
Hon's Diary
Collection
Identifier: SC 01450
Content Description
Hon’s diary includes 146 handwritten pages and 7 pages typed via email between June 1994 and January 1996. Hon describes his life while living in California, recording experiences regarding platonic and romantic relationships, drug and alcohol use, international travel to Indonesia and Hong Kong, immigration, HIV/AIDS, and the process of self-discovery. Hon’s entries are influenced by his intersectional identity as a gay male Asian immigrant living in the United States.
Hon utilizes this...
Dates:
1994-1996
Found in:
Special Collections Research Center
Matilda Sapieha-Kodenski Papers
Collection
Identifier: SC 01193
Scope and Contents
Acc. 2007.77 consist of thirteen letters, 1942-1944, written by Polish-Lithuanian Princess Matilda Bornemisza de Kaszon Sapieha-Kodenski (b. 1894) while residing in the United States during the World War II period. Her outgoing correspondence written from Pennsylvania and Florida document the perspective of a Polish American during the wartime period. Her letters express explicit anti-Semitic views, distaste for Bolshevism, Nazism, the fate of Poland, the lack of Allied help given to Poland,...
Dates:
1942-1944
Found in:
Special Collections Research Center