A collection of photography, oral history and written stories examining the experience of Polish expats opens at Hereford’s Shirehall on Monday as part of the Hereford Photography Festival.
From Exile to Freedom is showing alongside the Krakow Photo-month exhibition Don’t Mess with Texas by Tomasz Liboska and Michal Jedrzejowski, and has been created by the Birmingham Polish Expats Association with Heritage Lottery Fund backing.
It is being made available to the general public in Herefordshire thanks to Herefordshire Council’s Migration and Integration in Rural Areas (MIRA) Project.
The organisers have interviewed representatives of three different generations of migrants – those who arrived in the UK just after the Second World War, during the years of communist regime in Eastern Europe and those who arrived after 2004.
These stories give a unique insight into how the new community is being formed and the reasons for current and previous waves of Polish migrations to the UK.
The free exhibition runs until November 30. For details, visit fromexiletofreedom.org.uk.
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