The collection includes a folder entitled “An American Born in Poland,” consisting of memoirs written in 1981 of Zukowski's boyhood in Poland, his family, emigration to the United States, and life in Milwaukee until 1917. A second folder contains the “Memoirs of Sergeant 'Zuki'” (written in 1976), which recount Zukowski's military experiences during World War I, based on a diary he kept while serving with an ammunition supply unit of the 32nd “Red Arrow” Division. Within the typewritten memoirs are newsclippings, a photograph of Milwaukee officers of Company B, 5th Wisconsin Infantry, July 1917, together with a list of those officers and enlisted men, April 1917. Also included with the memoirs are a list of the dates and places where Zukowski served while in the Army and copies of correspondence regarding his attempts to join Army intelligence during World War II (dated 1977), and pertaining to his memoirs and his files held by the Army, 1978.
In addition, there is a small file of correspondence and clippings, 1977-1978, relating to World War I veterans, “Polish Jokes,” and other concerns of the Polish-American community.
