Stella Mucha Mickritz papers

Collection

Identifier: IHRC1538

Staff Only

Abstract

Papers (1919-1983, bulk 1919-1963), consist of correspondence, photographs, school records, news clippings, reports, typescript memoir, and published materials documenting Mickritz’s career as a nurse, especially her service with the Polish Grey Samaritans. The majority of materials are bound in two scrapbooks, individual documents are encased in plastic sleeves.

Dates

1919-1983

Creator

Mickritz, Stella Mucha (Person)

Language of Materials

English, Polish

ACCESS RESTRICTIONS

Open for use in the Elmer L. Andersen Library reading room.

OWNERSHIP & LITERARY RIGHTS

The Mickritz, Stella Mucha collection is the physical property of the Immigration History Research Center, University of Minnesota.

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HISTORICAL SKETCH

Stella Mucha Mickritz (b.Sep. 24, 1899), a native of Oak Creek Township near Milwaukee, Wisconsin, went to Poland immediately after World War I with the Polish Grey Samaritans, a nursing unit assembled under the auspices of the YWCA and the American Relief Administration’s European Children’s Fund. Upon her return, she had formal training as a nurse and also in the social sciences, at various institutions including the American International Academy in Springfield, MA, and the University of Chicago where she received her Ph.B. degree in social sciences in 1932. Later she pursued her carreer in a number of health care institutions in Wisconsin, Illinois, New York and Indiana.