Donald E. Pienkos

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Donald Edward Pienkos (born 1944) is a Polish-American historian at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee specializing in the history of Polish-American community.

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He received the Officer’s Cross of Merit from the President of Poland, November 2010. [1]

His works on Milwaukee's Polonia have been described as "most useful". [2]

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