Frank Milewski

It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas—except at N.Y. City Public Schools

Outside City Hall in New York -- (From left to right): Chet Szarejko and Frank Milewski of the Downstate N.Y. Division of the Polish American Congress along with Bill Donohue, President of the Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights, join in support of City Council Member Tony Avella at his press conference to allow nativity scene displays in New York City public elementary and secondary schools.

‘It was a christian thing to do’

Why would anyone risk his own life, often even his family's, to save the life of someone else? Even more puzzling, why would anyone risk his life to save someone whose culture and religion are radically different from theirs? The three Polish Catholics pictured with Dr. William A. Donohue (right), president of the Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights, have the answer to these provocative questions. For them, "it was the Christian thing to do."

Guess who came to America even before the pilgrims did

Despite the Statue of Liberty’s appeal to “give me your tired and your poor,” those who trace their American roots to New York’s Ellis Island might tell you these noble words of welcome were not always the fact.

New York’s condolences to a Michigan politician

Poor Phil. Phil Cavanagh, that is. When most politicians like to introduce their spouses and call them “my wife and my best friend,” he may be looking for a place to hide her. At least until the voting is over.

Poland always knew “you can’t do business with Hitler”

New York, N.Y. .. “You can’t do business with Hitler” was the title of a book published in the early years of World War II warning and predicting what it would be like if Hitler came out the winner.

Holocaust Misrepresentations a concern of “Righteous” Poles

Glen Head, N.Y. .. Mietek (Mike) Madejski (left) and Wanda Lorenc (center) presented a copy of Andrew Hempel’s “Poland in World War II” to each of the students graduating from the Ignacy Jan Paderewski Polish Supplementary School affiliated with St. Hyacinth’s parish in Glen Head, N.Y. Here they are shown displaying the book to Janusz Grabarz, director of the school. Mr. Madejski and Mrs. Lorenc were part of the Polish underground resistance (Armia Krajowa) and fought against the Germans during the Warsaw Uprising of August, 1944 where more than 200,000 Poles were killed.

Two Polish Holocaust heroes

New York, N.Y. .. Michael Madejski (left) and Dr. Jerzy Waleszkowski were Polish boy scouts who found little time for arts and crafts after Germany invaded Poland in 1939 to start World War II and the Holocaust. Instead, they joined Poland’s underground resistance, the Armia Krajowa, and spent most of their time fighting the German army of occupation.

Catholic Auschwitz Survivor Wages War Against “Holocaust Ignorance”

“Nowhere else is Holocaust history as distorted and misrepresented as it is about Poland.”

The Frustrating Quest for Holocaust Truth

By Polish American Congress "Nowhere else is Holocaust history as distorted and misrepresented as it is about Poland." That's one of the reasons Michael Preisler a Polish Catholic who survived more than three years in Auschwitz, founded the Holocaust Documentation Committee of the Polish American Congress and is now its co-chair.