My Archive Spring 2019

"Old family photo circa the early 1920s. Elizabeth Stasa and Frances Stasa, my mother, probably on a Sunday before or after going to St. Peter's Church on Barclay Street (at that time the family was living in the South Street Seaport area either Dover St. or Peck Slip). Formerly, they lived at 109 Washington Street and 66 Greenwich Street when they first came as children with their family from Moravia in Austria-Hungary (now the Czech Republic ) in 1912. By 1927 they were living in Brooklyn. My aunt and mother were seamstresses working in sweatshops near Union Square."

—Joseph Svehlak