Shown with Mr. Daum are Chet Szarejko (left), vice president and Frank Milewski, president of the Downstate New York Division of the Congress.
New York, N.Y. ... A recent commemoration at the Polish Consulate in New York City gave the Polish American Congress the opportunity to meet and greet Menachem Daum (center), the producer and director of the film, "Hiding and Seeking."
Brooklyn, N.Y. … In August 1944, Jadwiga Chrusciel was in Poland and was a member of the Polish Girl Scouts (Harcerze). Her country had been invaded in 1939 and remained under German occupation ever since. Ms. Chrusciel is shown here as guest of honor at the annual post-Christmas party (Oplatek) of the Downstate N.Y. Division of the Polish American Congress at Brooklyn’s Polonaise Terrace on January 9th.
In August, 1944, Poland’s civilian resistance organization (Armia Krajowia) launched what came to be known as The Warsaw Uprising (The Rising) against the German Army that held the city of Warsaw captive for five long and cruel years.
Brooklyn, N.Y. … Rev. Marek Sobczak (center) expresses a prayer of thanksgiving for the Catholic Church’s beatification last June of Poland’s SOLIDARITY priest, Father Jerzy Popieluszko. A statue to his memory is seen in the background.
Participating in the commemorative ceremony conducted at Greenpoint’s McCarren Park are Michael Pajak, president of the New York Chapter of the John Paul II Foundation (left) and Frank Milewski, president of the Downstate N.Y. Division of the Polish American Congress. The Sea League of America, Liga Morska, provided the honor guard (in rear).
Shown with Mr. Kolodziejek and Mr. Preisler are (from left) Frank Milewski, president of the Downstate N.Y. Division of the Congress and Rev. Vlad Kubrak, vicar at St. Matthias.
Brooklyn, N.Y. …It was April 1940.
Six months had already passed since the invasion of Poland by the Germans and the Russians the prior September. Most of the killing should have stopped by now.
Little did the Polish people know what was in store for them from the Germans and the Russians who now occupied their country.
New York, N.Y… Mark Skulimowski, Deputy Consul General of the Republic of Poland in New York (left), thanks Dr. Leon Nadrowski (center) for the support he and the Polish American Congress gave Lech Walesa and the Polish trade union Solidarity in their fight to shake off Communist control in the 1980’s.
Acting as media spokesman for the Congress, Nadrowski, spearheaded a series of public rallies and demonstrations in New York City against the violation of human rights in Poland..
Kew Gardens, N.Y. ... Michael Preisler (left), a Polish Catholic who spent more than three years as a prisoner in Auschwitz, joined with the congregation of the Jewish Center of Kew Gardens Hills in Queens, N.Y. to commemorate the 65th anniversary of the Auschwitz death camp's liberation on January 27, 1945.
The United Nations chose the anniversary to be known each year as International Holocaust Remembrance Day.