Tag: Tomasz Liboska

“In the communist era, Upper Silesia was the promised land,” Polish photographer Tomasz Liboska told us of the place he’s called home for ten years. People from all over the country came to Upper Silesia following the Second World War in search of hard work and prosperity for their families. Steel plants and coal mines flourished.

We set off to Texas in 2009. It was just over 155 years after the first group of exiles left Silesia—a region on the border between Germany, Poland and the Czech Republic. Throughout their history, the Silesians have had trouble defining themselves. Are they Polish? Are they German? Are they something different altogether? We wanted to discover what remained of these long removed ancestors.