The Zinavage Legacy

“Names change,” writes Wilfred Zinavage, “but genes don’t; neither does history.” In this detailed history of one family’s struggle across generations, Zinavage records how history has marked the descendants of Antoni and Ketrin Ziniewicz. From humble roots in Russian-controlled Poland to the challenges of starting again as immigrants in America, their story is a familiar one of hardships and obstacles overcome, and of what it means to be a family.

A collection of historical narrative, letters saved and lovingly transcribed, family photographs, and personal memoir, The Zinavage Legacy captures one family’s story with compassion and complexity, a brilliant firsthand look at one thread of the American experience.