Interview of Edwarda M. Buda-Okreglak, M.D.

Interview of Edwarda M. Buda-Okreglak, M.D.

Edwarda M. Buda-Okreglak discusses immigrating from Poland to the United States as a young girl in the 1960s. She especially focuses on her education in the U.S. and her journey towards becoming a medical doctor. Dr. Buda-Okreglak also illuminates the Polish-American community of the mid-Twentieth century.

This interview was conducted as part of an undergraduate final project for the University of Maryland, College Park course HIST428M: "Foreigners as Citizens: Recording Oral Histories of Immigration" (Spring 2015). This course was led by Professor Anne Rush of the History Department, College of Arts and Humanities, and was sponsored by the Center for the New America.

Center for the History of the New America

March 21, 2015

The full rights of this oral history interview were given by the interviewee to the University of Maryland, College Park. This interview may be quoted from, published, or broadcast in any medium that the University of Maryland, College Park shall deem appropriate.

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English

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Bożenna Buda

Edwarda M. Buda-Okreglak, M.D.

Kensington, Montgomery County, Maryland, U.S.A.