Suffer Not The Mole People

What does it take to forsake all that’s familiar: lives, language, customs, culture, family, history to pick up stakes and flee to a new world where much is promised but nothing guaranteed?

This is the frightful challenge facing the Kaczmarek family in 19th century Silesia, Poland. Where does an individual and a family find the courage to face such a wrenching ordeal? Will the dreams, the fears, the hopes and misgivings pull them together or tear them apart? Will they overcome their doubts or succumb to the depredations of their Prussian overlords? What kind of people would trade the security of the known for the tentative promises of freedom and opportunity?

And what is the essence of this United States of America that beckoned them and still beckons others from all the ends of the earth to its promised shores?

Follow them here on their onerous journey over land and sea and heartache as they dare to seek freedom and fortune far from the meager comforts of home.