The Reviver of the Polish Americans' Pride

Abstract

Mieczysław Haiman – born on 31 March 1888 in Złoczów, died on 15 January 1949 in Chicago. An indefatigable researcher into the history of Poles in the USA. In one person, he was a sailor and traveler, poet, journalist and writer, archivist, the founder and first custodian of the Polish Archives and Museum in America. The writer of over twenty books and countless dissertations and articles on the beginnings of history of Polish immigrants to the United States. All his life he built a bridge between Polish immigrants and other nations in the United States, looking for the oldest traces of Poles in America and emphasizing Poles' large contribution to building their new fatherland.