Commemorative Plaque in Honor of Captain Witold Pilecki
87th Pulaski Day Parade in New York under the Banner of Freedom
2024-10-06
"For Freedom is Measured with Crosses" – this poignant line from the song "Red Poppies on Monte Cassino" serves as the theme of the 87th Pulaski Day Parade, set to be held in New York.
On October 6 at noon, tens of thousands of Poles, Americans of Polish descent, and representatives of other communities will march along Fifth Avenue, the iconic thoroughfare of the American metropolis, to honor the hero of both Poland and the United States, General Kazimierz Pułaski.
Consultative Council for the Polish Community Abroad Announced: Belarusian Political Prisoner Andrzej Poczobut Named as Member
2024-10-06
On September 25, the Polish Senate hosted a formal ceremony to inaugurate the Consultative Council for the Polish Community Abroad at the Speaker of the Senate. The newly formed Council will advise on key legislative projects impacting Poles living abroad and their communities. Among its notable members is Andrzej Poczobut, a prominent Polish journalist and activist currently imprisoned in Belarus for his pro-democracy efforts.
‘Kids tell their parents that they love the activities we offer. For us, this is the best proof that such events are worth organising’, Family News Service was told by Deputy Director of the Study Centre for the Polish Community and Poles Abroad of the Catholic University of Lublin (KUL) Dr Wojciech Wciseł. In the ‘KUL Summer’ project, the University invited children living abroad to its Creative Work House Rajchertówka in Kazimierz Dolny, where the third edition of the event is taking place on August 3-11.
Henryk Kurylewski
80th Anniversary of the Warsaw Uprsising
Karol Nawrocki
President of the National Remembrance Institute
Polish Relay for Freedom
Poles have always refused to their fate being decided by others. The nineteenth-century January Uprising – a heroic guerrilla war against the Russian occupier – fits in this attitude.
On Thursday evening, August 4, 1864, the churches in Warsaw’s Old Town were bursting at the seams. It wasn’t a holiday, and the heedful tsarist police guessed the reason for such large church gatherings. Word had spread among the citizens that members of the Polish National Government would be executed the following day by order of a Russian court.
Professor Andrzej NOWAK
Historian, Sovietologist and member of the National Development Council. Lecturer at the Jagiellonian University. Full Professor at the Institute of History of the Polish Academy of Sciences. Winner of the Lech Kaczyński Award, Chevalier of the Order of the White Eagle.
Poles, Ukrainians, Lithuanians and Belarusians do not bow their heads
2023 marks the 160th anniversary of the January Uprising. Despite the passage of years, the echoes of this uprising are still present in public debate. An important, albeit challenging, question ‘to fight (for one’s country’s freedom) or not to fight?’ is still being asked in Central Europe.
About Polish Weekly
Polish Weekly (Tygodnik Polski) is the oldest Polish newspaper in Australia and New Zealand. Its founder was Father Edmund Konrad Trzeciak CM, who created the paper to help him in the pastoral and social work among Polish refugees. The priest was also the administrator, editor, printer and distributor of the newspaper.
That the Polish Weekly could appear for sixty five years is due to the hundreds of people involved with the newspaper - writers, the technical and administrative staff, but most of all its faithful readers.
Regardless of the situation in Poland, regardless of the changes taking place in the world and in our own backyard, deeply patriotic Polish Weekly has always been committed to the independence of Poland and to the Polish community in Australia, while at same time being involved in current affairs in Australia.
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