VeizerVizerWiezerWieser: A Memoir and a Search: Granite City to Kompolt

by Keith Veizer

Book Overview

In the early 1900s Joseph Veizer's family and many others from farming villages in northeast Hungary immigrated to a unique ethnic neighborhood in Granite City, Illinois, a new city and a suburb of St. Louis that was known at the time as "The Little Pittsburgh of the Midwest." Hungarians, Bulgarians, Armenians, Mexicans, Macedonians and others lived together in Lincoln Place (originally known as "Hungary Hollow") and worked together for several generations...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1507637780
• ISBN13: 9781507637784
• Release Date: April 2015
• Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
• Length: 290 Pages
• Weight: 1.01 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"