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Why did people want to emigrate to America?
Katherine Korona, who emigrated from Poland to America, talks about her old life in Poland and her hopes for a new life in America. A discussion on how immigrants escaped the poverty of their own country or for political or religious reasons for the lure of the American Dream.
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