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.
Maspeth, N.Y. ... Members of Holy Cross R.C. Church in Maspeth, N.Y. responded to the urging of their pastor, Msgr. Peter Zendzian (standing) and sat down with the Voter Registration Committee of the Polish American Congress to complete the required application.
New York, N.Y. .. When the Germans were in the process of killing 200,000 freedom fighters in World War II’s Warsaw Uprising of August, 1944, Walter Bloniarz (far right) was the kind of Polish fighter the Russian Communists wanted dead the most.
Brooklyn, N.Y. … June 14th was observed as Flag Day in America. In Poland, the date was remembered as the day in 1940 that Hitler and his Nazis opened the gate of
Auschwitz to receive the first inmates – 728 Polish prisoners they transported from Tarnow, Poland.
The City of New York paid special tribute to the legendary World War II hero of both the Polish and the Jewish people by renaming the intersection of Manhattan's Madison Avenue and East 37th Street "Jan Karski Corner."
Public Television’s WLIW21 on New York’s Long Island issued, a formal apology to the Polish American Congress, the Kosciuszko Foundation and the Polish Consulate for inadvertently describing the Auschwitz concentration camp Hitler’s SS operated in German-occupied Poland as “Polish” instead of German.
- Frank Milewski
Much of the information given the public about the Holocaust is often unreliable and even fraudulent, according to a Polish Catholic who spent over three years as a prisoner of Hitler’s SS in the dreaded German concentration camp at Auschwitz.
“Tony Avella’s a politician with courage, determination and perseverance. Too bad there’s so few like him around.”
Those are the sentiments of Frank Milewski (left), who heads the Downstate N.Y. Division of the Polish American Congress and its Anti-Bigotry Committee, as he congratulates Council Member
Tony Avella outside the Council Chambers in New York’s City Hall.