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BRAZIL The imperial government from Brazil, in 32 years of immigration, spent 10 million pound sterling for the transport and European immigrants' colonization. The current migratory to Brazil brought up to 1947, about 4 million and 930 thousand European and you guide.
Arrival to Brazil The first Polish immigrants arrived in Porto of Itajaí, Santa Catarina, in August of 1869. They were 78 coming Polish of the area of Polish Southern Silesia. Commandant Redlisch, of the ship Victoria, brought colonists from Europe Central for they are seated in the Colony Brusque. To the whole they were 16 Polish families, whose heads of the family were: Francisco Pollak, Nicolau Wós, Boaventura Pollak, Thomasz Szymanski, Simon Purkot, Felipe Purkot, Miguel Prudlo, Simon Otto, Domin Stempke, Gaspar Gbur, Balcer Gbur, Walentin Weber, Antoni Kania, Franciszek Kania, André Pampuch and Stefan Kachel. The Polish were placed in the colonies Príncipe Dom Pedro and Itajahy, in the area of Brusque, where the first Polish child died in Brazilian territory. First died In the registrations of deaths of Colony D.Pedro's Church, they are JAN OTTO'S deaths, with one year and five months, in October 11, 1870, son of Simon Otto and Rosalia Gabriel; DAISY, daughter of Ignacio Milleck and Suzana kubis, on December 21, 1870. Already on January 2, 1871, the third Polish, Maria Ana Stemka died; On January 3, João Purkot; On January 14, Margarida, daughter of Jan Hilleck and in February 26, Juliana Gbur. All were buried at the cemetery of the colony. In this period, any son's of the Polish births were not registered. This only comes to happen later, already in the province of Paraná, where they headed these families in, September 30, 1871. In the decades of 1870 and 1880, some appeared colonies of Polish in the Provinces of Santa Catarina and Rio Grande do Sul. In the first time, the colonies Sandweg-Indaial and Rio Vermelho; in second time, Santa Bárbara and Santa Teresa colonies. After the proclamation of the Republic, the Brazilian government practically opened the doors of the country to the immigration. The first years of the Republic, it was the period in that more entered immigrants in Brazil. The Polish appeared in the statistics in good number. Of 1869 up to 1914 entered in Brazil more than 102.096 Polish, distributed like this:
This period was known in Poland as " Brazilian " fever. Important colonies appeared in several Brazilian states:
From 1935 to 1970, they entered more 25.014 Polish immigrants. Being added all the periods, of 1869 up to 1970, the number of Polish immigrants reaches 130.292.
The process of culture and insert in the Brazilian life would feel later years. The immigrants and your Polish descendants only began to leave the colonies in direction to the urban centers starting from 1930. |
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