Informant Archive
Rufus Apple
Linda Ashley
Adelaine Banach | Elaine Jaye
Helen Bayles-Bloch
Erwin and Julie Bloch
Dr. Robert & Margaret Bloom | Susan Bloom Smith
Jerry Bookstein
Alice Ewald | Pat Bosch | Melanie Dziordziewicz
Willa Bouier
Ernestine Cox
Caldonia Edwards
Judge Bernard Friedman | Dr. Howard Friedman
Marie Genca Kotz
John and Klara Jackowski
Rosetta Johnson | Priscilla Jessie
Edward Maliszewski
Trudi Minkiewicz
Alice and Chalres Murz
Ed Nowak
Henrietta Nowakowska
Joseph Paulus
Jesse Pearson
Charlie Primas
▸ Benjamin Stanczyk
Judge Stanczyk is one of the heroes of Chene Street. I interviewed him seven times and he had a very large photo collection that he shared with me. He was street savvy and educated. He got his law degree from U-M in 1939. He also practiced law on Chene before joining the prosecutor’s office. He knew where all the skeletons were buried and he was a candid interviewee. I carried out all the interviews at his kitchen table in his east side Detroit home. The interviews were conducted between January 2003 and October 2005.
Transcribed Audio Interview with Benjamin Stanczyk (PDF)
Selected Photos
- Polish Engineers Society annual New Year’s party at Dom Ludowy on February 13, 1926
- “This is a picture of our A5 and B6 classes in Ferry school Room B of which Miss Mary Enright was teacher.”
- Skilled tradesmen working at Packard Motor Company, 1912
- Antoni Wojsowski sitting in a truck of a soda company in Pennsylvania that he was partner in, 1919